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Mississippi Tornadoes Kill 23, Injure Dozens Overnight

Powerful tornadoes tore through parts of the Deep South on Friday night, killing at least 23 people in Mississippi, obliterating dozens of buildings and leaving an especially devastating mark on a rural town whose mayor declared, "My city is gone." The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency said in a Twitter post…

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State supreme courts issued 142 opinions between March 13-19

State supreme courts issued 142 opinions between March 13-19. The Hawaii Supreme Court led the field with 25 opinions issued, followed by Delaware with 10 and Mississippi, North Dakota, and Ohio with eight.

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Mississippi sets tighter restrictions on absentee ballots

Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves has signed a bill to set tighter restrictions on who can gather other people’s absentee ballots

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Rev. Wheeler Parker was there in the bedroom when Emmett Till was abducted. His memoir recounts the 70-year push for federal charges

The Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. lives just outside Justice.

Chicago Tribune

Only 1 Black rep gets role in talks on Mississippi policing

One Black lawmaker and nine white ones have been chosen to work on final versions of bills that could expand the territory of a state-run police department inside Mississippi’s majority-Black capital city

The Independent UK

Two weeks until Chicago mayoral, Wisconsin Supreme Court elections

Welcome to the Tuesday, March 21, Brew.

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Candida auris: Potentially deadly fungus spreading through US at ‘dramatic’ rate

The US state of Mississippi is facing a growing outbreak of the fungus

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Favre must remain in welfare lawsuit, Mississippi argues

A Mississippi agency says a judge should reject retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre’s requests to be removed from a lawsuit seeking to recover misspent welfare money

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Alienation of Affections in Mississippi

From Davis v. Davis, decided yesterday by the Mississippi Supreme Court, in an opinion for the court by Justice Leslie King: John and Sandra Davis, a then-married couple, had two children in the 1980s. In 2018, John discovered the possibility that the children were not biologically his, but that they…

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Ballotpedia’s trifecta vulnerability analysis for 2023

Welcome to the Friday, March 17, Brew.

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Nonprofit head pleads guilty in Mississippi welfare fraud

The director of a Mississippi nonprofit organization has pleaded guilty in federal court to stealing government funds intended to help needy families in one of the poorest states in the U.S. Christi Webb appeared Thursday before U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves in Jackson

The Independent UK

Mississippi governor OKs longer postpartum Medicaid coverage

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has signed legislation to solidify a full year of Medicaid coverage for women after birth

The Independent UK

Fires continue to kill people in unsafe buildings as Chicago ignores problems with its inspection system

CHICAGO — Larry Burns had been planning a wedding reception last May in Mississippi and was looking forward to his mother coming from her home in Chicago’s Austin neighborhood.

Chicago Tribune

Rasheem Carter seen ‘running for his life’ in new trail camera image before his death

Black Mississippi resident went missing soon after he claimed facing racism

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Sickle cell patient's success with gene editing raises hopes and questions

A Mississippi woman's life has been transformed by a treatment for sickle cell disease with the gene-editing technique CRISPR. All her symptoms from a disease once thought incurable have disappeared.

The Independent UK

A Black man was ‘decapitated’ after saying he was being chased by white men. Why do police say no foul play?

Four months have now passed since Rasheem Carter’s remains were found in a wooded area in Mississippi. Despite the Black man’s alleged fears for his life at the hands of a group of white men, his family are no closer to getting any answers over his death, reports Rachel Sharp

Chicago Sun-Times

The curiosities of a freak crappie caught in northern Illinois

Kyle Tepper caught a freak crappie in the Chain O’Lakes area that looks like something from far southern Illinois or Mississippi. The catch gives the chance to splash around the oddities of crappies in Illinois.

The Independent UK

Bill restricting electric car stores now law in Mississippi

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has signed a bill that will restrict electric car manufacturers from selling vehicles in person unless they open franchised dealerships

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Ex-rep: Legislative plans in Mississippi are 'Jim Crow 2.0'

A former Mississippi lawmaker says efforts by the majority-white state Legislature to create courts with appointed rather than elected judges and to expand patrols by state police inside the majority-Black capital city of Jackson amount to “Jim Crow 2_0."

WEKU

The family of a man whose body was found in Mississippi calls for a DOJ probe

The family of a Mississippi man whose dismembered body was found in November said his newly released autopsy report shows he was murdered, and they called for a federal investigation into the case.

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Early voting in this year’s statewide elections

Welcome to the Tuesday, March 14, Brew.

WEKU

Landmarks fall, memories fade. Civil rights tourism may protect Mississippi history

There's a new push to develop civil rights tourism in the Mississippi Delta where local groups are using federal dollars to preserve the stories before memories fade and landmarks are lost.

The Guardian - US

Louisiana police arrest alleged killers of baby found in trash bag in 1992

Police used genetic genealogy analysis of evidence collected after the body was found to find the alleged killers – her parents

Roll Call

Biden pick for Mississippi federal court awaits Senate hearing - Roll Call

A district court nominee from Mississippi apparently has been held up from a confirmation hearing because of a so-called “blue slip.”

WEKU

Mississippi is home of the blues and key to civil rights past. Locals tell the story

With pandemic restrictions lifted, tourists are returning to Mississippi's famous Blues Trail. Civil rights leaders are noticing some are now hungry for more context about the music's origins.

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