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Text messages link Favre, welfare money, volleyball facility

New court documents show the Mississippi governor in 2017 knew of a plan for a nonprofit group to pay Brett Favre more than $1 million in welfare grant money so the retired NFL quarterback could help fund a volleyball facility

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EPA inspector general probes Mississippi capital water woes

An independent watchdog in the Environmental Protection Agency says it is investigating the troubled water system in Mississippi’s capital

The Independent UK

Running water returns in Mississippi capital – but it’s still undrinkable

A boil water notice remains in majority-Black city and a long-term solution remains elusive

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Borrowers in 7 states may be taxed on their student loan cancellation

Seven states have tax policies on the books that could require them to treat student loans canceled by the federal government as taxable income.

WEKU

Michael Hiltzik: If Mississippi is a 'laboratory of democracy,' we're in trouble

The notion of states as "laboratories of democracy" is generally credited to Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis.

Los Angeles Times

EPA leader: Jackson needs 'fair share' of money to fix water

The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says he wants Mississippi’s capital city to receive “its fair share” of federal money to repair a troubled water system

The Independent UK

Baltimore residents urged to boil tap water after E coli detected

City officials ‘taking this matter very seriously’ as detection comes amid water access problems in Jackson, Mississippi and New York

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White House says Biden ‘zeroed in’ on environmental justice despite not visiting Jackson, Mississippi amid water crisis

‘We have made this a priority’, White House says

The Independent UK

Mississippi State vs Arizona Prediction, Game Preview

Mississippi State vs Arizona game preview, prediction, and breakdown for the Week 2 game on Saturday, September 10

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Texas’ Steve Sarkisian reminisces on how Nick Saban’s ‘discipline’ shaped his career

Back in his time as an Alabama assistant, no one may have taken more verbal abuse from Nick Saban than current Mississippi coach Lane Kiffin.

Tribune News Service

Students return to campus amid water crisis in Jackson

Students in Mississippi’s capital were able to return to class for the first time in a week with assurances that the toilets and sinks in their buildings would finally work

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67 years after Emmett Till’s Chicago funeral, his best friend remembers him

CHICAGO — When the Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. thinks of Emmett Till, he sees him running toward home plate with the grace of a lumbering Pullman freight train. Emmett’s slow speed lost their team a softball game, he remembers.

Chicago Tribune

Editorial: A Jim Crow law was designed to disenfranchise Blacks. A court just upheld it

What’s wrong with this picture? A federal appeals court in Mississippi, in recently considering whether to overturn an 1890 law that makes it almost impossible for ex-convicts to ever vote again, wrote that the law was “steeped in racism” from its very inception. Then that same court upheld the law…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Mississippi pastor confessed to killing a father - after pretending to help family look for him, daughter says

James Eric Crisp walked into the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office last week and admitted to killing 48-year-old Roger Loyd Taylor in 2019. Taylor’s daughter tells Andrea Blanco why she doesn’t believe Crisp’s claims of being ‘reformed’ by becoming a minister after the murder

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Residents in Mississippi's capital city get "positive" news as water begins flowing again

The water crisis has upended life for the city of nearly 150,000 people.

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Jackson mayor: residents face ‘longer road ahead’ before safe water is restored

Precariousness of water system remains before services are fully restored after infrastructure failure, Chokwe Antar Lumumba says

The Independent UK

Officials: Miss. capital city close to normal water pressure

Mississippi's capital has taken a step closer toward restoring normal water service to tens of thousands of customers

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Some states could tax Biden's student loan debt relief

President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan could lift crushing debt burdens from millions of borrowers

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Mississippi capital's Black business owners decry water woes

Black business owners in Mississippi’s capital say the city’s broken water system poses dire costs for their bottom lines

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Mississippi Walmart evacuated after pilot threatens to ‘intentionally crash’ into it

The pilot later landed safely, injuring no one, and was taken into police custody.

Tribune News Service

Luxury cruise ship departs St. Paul, stirs river dreams for passengers, locals

MINNEAPOLIS — Bob Wilson stepped off a bus at St. Paul's Lambert's Landing on Saturday, a native back in his hometown for the maiden voyage of the Viking Mississippi, a 450-foot-long cruise ship and floating symbol of this city's hopes for a riverfront tourism revival.

Wales Online

Pilot 'who stole plane and threatened to fly into Walmart store' is arrested

The store in Mississippi was evacuated before Cory Wayne Patterson was arrested

WEKU

In Jackson, Miss., football goes on despite the water crisis

Football is a way of life in Jackson, Mississippi. So are boil water notices. The latest water crisis has not stopped fans from filling the stands to support a local college team.

Salon

US life expectancy in decline

The worst decline in a century reveals our for-profit healthcare system for what it really is

The Independent UK

Pilot seeking to crash plane into a Mississippi Walmart lands safely, in custody

Governor Tate Reeves said in a statement that he “thankful the situation has been resolved and that no one was injured.”

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