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Judge orders five-day water restoration at south Jackson apartments - Mississippi Today A federal judge on Friday ordered water to be turned back on for five days at a south Jackson apartment complex where the utility company shut it off July 23 because the complex owner has $422,000 of ...

Federal judge orders five-day “humanitarian” restoration of water at an apartment complex in Mississippi’s capital city mississippitoday.org/2025/08/08/j...

Son like father: Vernon Dahmer Jr. was a patriot Column: Vernon Dahmer Jr., the son of a voting rights maryr, was, like his father, a patriot.

Son like father: Vernon Dahmer Jr. was a patriot

Column: Vernon Dahmer Jr., the son of a voting rights maryr, was, like his father, a patriot.

Lawmaker probing Mississippi’s prisons finds inmates suffering from treatable diseases as corrections asks for more money 'When they beg me for supplies because they make them reuse colostomy bags over and over that don’t fit, when they are bowel and bladder incontinent and they don’t provide diapers to them it is hard for me to hear that (MDOC) feels that they provide adequate care.' -- House Corrections Chairwoman Becky Currie

Lawmaker probing Mississippi’s prisons finds inmates suffering from treatable diseases as corrections asks for more money

'When they beg me for supplies because they make them reuse colostomy bags over and over that don’t fit, when they are bowel and bladder incontinent and they don’t provide…

Danish man living in Mississippi detained by ICE at naturalization meeting A Danish man living in Mississippi for a dozen years has been imprisoned in Louisiana for more than a month after ICE officers took him into custody at a meeting to become a naturalized U.S. citizen, ...

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AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists A federal judge has ordered the White House to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events.

apnews.com/article/trum... AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists

Robert Clark, Mississippi's first Black lawmaker after Civil Rights era, dies at 96 Mississippi’s first Black lawmaker of the 20th century died Tuesday. Robert G. Clark's son and successor, state Rep.

apnews.com/article/miss... Robert Clark, Mississippi's first Black lawmaker after Civil Rights era, dies at 96

Women represent half of the US. But they sometimes lack clout in budget and tax talks Women represent half of the U.S. population. But it’s still rare in some states for female lawmakers to have leading roles in budget matters.

apnews.com/article/wome... Women represent half of the US. But they sometimes lack clout in states’ #budget and tax talks. #msleg

Mississippi No Longer Leads Nation in Childhood Vaccines Mississippi no longer leads the nation in childhood vaccines, falling to third place after a judge ordered the state to allow religious exemptions.

NEW for @mississippifreepress.org | Mississippi no longer leads the nation in childhood vaccines after a judge's 2023 order said the state must allow for religious exemptions. The state fell from 1st to 3rd place during the 2023-2024 school year.

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Supreme Court leaves in place Mississippi’s voting ban for people convicted of some crimes The Supreme Court has left in place Mississippi’s Jim Crow-era practice of removing voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies, including nonviolent crimes such as forgery and timber thef...

apnews.com/article/supr... Supreme Court leaves in place Mississippi’s voting ban for people convicted of some crimes

If you’re ever curious about what Germany allows, here is the document I read today.

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Mississippi should stop celebrating Robert E. Lee Column: Today, Mississippi officially commemorates both Robert E. Lee and Martin Luther King Jr. It's beyond time the state stops celebrating Lee, a Confederate who chose treason and human bondage ove...

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State Rep. Steve Holland: 'Gulf of America' bill was a joke By Jeff Amy/The Associated Press

That time in 2012 when #Mississippi state Rep. Steve Holland jokingly proposed renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. He was protesting anti-immigrant sentiment in politics. #msleg www.djournal.com/news/state-r...

President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to several people, including the late civil right activist Fannie Lou Hamer of #Mississippi. Accepting Hamer’s medal on behalf of her family was her niece, Doris Hamer Richardson.

I continue to be deeply moved by this statement to the heavens by President Carter.

BREAKING: Former President Jimmy Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and the longest-living chief executive in U.S. history, has died. He was 100. apnews.com/article/jimm...

Civil rights icon James Meredith is honored in his Mississippi hometown A new historical marker has been unveiled in the hometown of civil rights icon James Meredith. He is a Black man who fought white supremacy by integrating the University of Mississippi in 1962.

apnews.com/article/jame... Civil rights icon James Meredith is honored in his #Mississippi hometown

In June, I drove up to Sebastopol, MS to interview Brandy Moore, a mother of four who was recently arrested and facing a possible 20-year prison sentence. Her crime: using drugs while around 15-weeks pregnant in 2019. At the time, she was considering an abortion, which was still legal then.

San Francisco names street for Associated Press photographer who captured the iconic Iwo Jima photo SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A photojournalist who captured one of the most enduring images of World War II — the U.S. Marines raising the flag on the Japanese

San Francisco names street for Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal, who captured the iconic Iwo Jima photo mynorthwest.com/4018949/san-...

Judge declares mistrial after jury deadlocks over killing of gay University of Mississippi student A judge has declared a mistrial in the killing of a University of Mississippi student who was prominent in the local LGBTQ+ community.

apnews.com/article/miss... Judge declares mistrial after jury says it cannot reach a verdict in the killing of a gay University of #Mississippi student

Jury considers charges against man in killing of Ole Miss student Jurors are deliberating in the trial of a man charged with killing a University of Mississippi student who was well-known in the local LGBTQ+ community.

apnews.com/article/miss... Jury considers charges against man in killing of University of #Mississippi student

Man on trial in Ole Miss student's death lied to investigators, police chief says Police became convinced they were investigating a crime rather than a voluntarily missing person two weeks after a University of Mississippi student disappeared.

apnews.com/article/miss... Man on trial in University of #Mississippi student's death lied to investigators, Oxford police chief says

Should a Student Reporter Face Prosecution for Embedding with Protesters? Dilan Gohill won an award for his work at the Stanford Daily, but his coverage of campus protests has set university officials against him.

I wrote about the case last week.

The reporter, 19, followed protesters into the president's office, took photos, sent feeds.

I examined 40 pages of internal Slack messages, interviewed several witnesses - and found no evidence he incited or participated in the protest www.cjr.org/getting-the-...

Clarke Reed, who helped Gerald Ford win the 1976 Republican nomination, has died at 96 Clarke Reed, a Mississippi businessman who helped build the Republican Party across the South, has died.

apnews.com/article/clar... Clarke Reed, a former #Mississippi GOP chairman who helped Gerald Ford win the 1976 Republican nomination, has died at 96

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Man on trial in the killing of an Ole Miss student gave conflicting information, police say The man on trial in the killing of University of Mississippi student Jimmie “Jay” Lee gave conflicting information to police about how well he and Lee knew each other.

apnews.com/article/miss... Man on trial in the killing of an Ole Miss student gave conflicting information, police say

State Sen. Jenifer Branning wins a Mississippi Supreme Court seat State Sen. Jenifer Branning has won a seat on the Mississippi Supreme Court, defeating Justice Jim Kitchens.

apnews.com/article/miss... State Sen. Jennifer Branning wins a #Mississippi Supreme Court seat

The NAACP ends its challenge over Mississippi creating a new court in majority-Black capital city JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The NAACP is ending its lawsuit that challenged a decision by the majority-white and Republican-run Mississippi Legislature to create a new state court in Jackson, the capital ci...

apnews.com/article/miss... The #NAACP ends its challenge over #Mississippi creating a new court in majority-Black capital city

An Ole Miss student exchanged messages with the man now on trial in his killing, police say In the final hours before University of Mississippi student Jimmy “Jay” Lee disappeared, sexually explicit Snapchat messages were exchanged between his account and the account of the man now on trial ...

apnews.com/article/miss... An Ole Miss student exchanged messages with the man now on trial in his killing, police say

Campus cameras showed a student leaving his Ole Miss apartment the day he disappeared Security cameras captured video of a University of Mississippi student leaving his campus apartment twice on the morning he was last seen alive.

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