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Republicans insist most gun violence happens in Democratic cities – the figures tell a different story

Conservatives like to paint Democratic states as crime-ridden warzones, but gun violence is worse in red states, Josh Marcus writes

The Independent UK · Jul 26, 2022

Mississippi drops attorney investigating welfare abuse

A Mississippi state agency has dropped its attorney investigating millions in misspent welfare dollars

The Independent UK · Jul 25, 2022

Powerful first trailer of Emmett Till biopic shows his mother’s fight for justice

14-year-old Emmett Till’s brutal murder by white men in 1955 Mississippi sparked the civil rights movement

The Independent UK · Jul 25, 2022

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Mississippi public schools can make their own gun policies

Mississippi education officials are making clear after recent mass shootings in the U.S. that school districts in their state can make their own rules for letting armed people with enhanced licenses onto school grounds

The Independent UK · Jul 25, 2022

Mississippi police chief fired after bragging about killing 13 people in slur-filled leaked audio

City leadership votes to remove Lexington police chief following racist, expletive-filled recording

The Independent UK · Jul 24, 2022

String quartet brings music to inmates in Mississippi prison

The Mississippi Department of Corrections says a string quartet has brought classical music into a prison

The Independent UK · Jul 21, 2022

Crowd protests relocation of abortion clinic to New Mexico

Anti-abortion activists have converged in southern New Mexico to protest relocation plans by the Mississippi clinic at the center of the court battle that overturned the Roe v. Wade court decision that legalized abortion nationwide

The Independent UK · Jul 20, 2022

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Emmett Till’s Chicago home to get preservation funds

CHICAGO — Emmett Till left his mother’s house on Chicago’s South Side in 1955 to visit relatives in Mississippi, where the Black teenager was abducted and brutally slain for reportedly whistling at a white woman.

Chicago Tribune · Jul 19, 2022

Mississippi abortion clinic at centre of Supreme Court case drops lawsuit against state’s ban

Jackson Women’s Health Organization’s iconic ‘Pink House’ clinic closed its doors in the ruling’s aftermath

The Independent UK · Jul 19, 2022

The Braves have an All-Star third baseman again. His name is Austin Riley.

LOS ANGELES — An All-Star performance brought this Mississippi kid to Southern California.

Tribune News Service · Jul 19, 2022

Owner: Mississippi abortion clinic is sold, won't reopen

The owner of Mississippi's only abortion clinic says she's sold the building and will not reopen the clinic even if a state court allows her to do so

The Independent UK · Jul 18, 2022

Cubs draft Oklahoma righty Cade Horton with 7th overall pick

Horton struck out 49 in his last 31 innings for the Sooners, including a 13-strikeout performance against eventual champion Mississippi at the College World Series.

Chicago Sun-Times · Jul 18, 2022

With Roe overruled, can red states disregard FDA rules on abortion pills?

WASHINGTON — When the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade last month, many abortion-rights advocates looked to pills sent by mail as a possible option for pregnant women who live in states where abortion is outlawed.

Los Angeles Times · Jul 16, 2022

With Roe overruled, can red states disregard FDA rules on abortion pills?

Los Angeles Times · Jul 16, 2022

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The Independent UK · Jul 15, 2022

Mississippi AG: No prosecution plan in Emmett Till lynching

Mississippi's attorney general has no plan to prosecute the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago

The Independent UK · Jul 14, 2022

Emmett Till accuser, in memoir, denies wanting teen killed

The white woman who was at the center of the 1955 lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till in Mississippi denies wanting him killed

Reason · Jul 14, 2022

Distributing Government-Released Autopsy Photos in Controversial Case Isn't Tortious

So the Tennessee Court of Appeals held yesterday, in Andreacchio v. Hamilton (in an opinion by Chief Judge D. Michael Swiney, joined by Judges Andy Bennett and Kenny Armstrong): In February 2014, Plaintiffs' son, Christian Andreacchio, died in Meridian, Mississippi. The Meridian Police Department ruled his death a suicide. However,…

WEKU · Jul 14, 2022

Emmett Till's family says 'white pedestal' theory has denied them justice for decades

The family of Emmett Till want authorities to serve a 1955 arrest warrant to the white woman they say is responsible for his murder and kidnapping.

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The Independent UK · Jul 13, 2022

Defendant: Ex-governor ordered payments to NFL's Brett Favre

A defendant in a Mississippi welfare fraud case says she directed $1.1 million in welfare money to former NFL star Brett Favre at the direction of former Gov. Phil Bryant

WEKU · Jul 12, 2022

Biden administration: Doctors must offer abortion if mom's life is at risk

HHS told hospitals that they "must" provide abortion services if the life of the mother is at risk, saying federal law on emergency care preempts state laws that now ban abortion without exception.

Tribune News Service · Jul 12, 2022

Who was Emmett Till? What to know about his death and legacy

RALEIGH, N.C. — In 1955, a white woman alleged that a Black teenager whistled at, grabbed and said obscene things to her in her grocery store in Mississippi. The result? A brutal kidnapping, beating and murder in the Jim Crow South.

Tribune News Service · Jul 11, 2022

Editorial: Will Emmett Till’s accuser learn you can’t outlive justice?

It has been an important year for the memory and impact of Emmett Till’s life and terrible death. That alone shows how slow justice can be for people of color in America.

The Independent UK · Jul 10, 2022

Dire US labor shortage provides opportunity for ex-prisoners

The United States' ongoing labor shortage is bad for employers but presents an opportunity for workers who often could not find jobs in rosier economic times: ex-prisoners

Tribune News Service · Jul 9, 2022

In a post-Roe world, more miscarriage and stillbirth prosecutions await women

In Texas, 26-year-old Lizelle Herrera was arrested and charged with murder for self-induced abortion. In California, 29-year-old Adora Perez served four years in prison after giving birth to a stillborn son. And in Mississippi, Latice Fisher was jailed after losing her baby at 36 weeks after police found she’d searched…

The Independent UK · Jul 9, 2022

Mississippi teen recounts rescuing 4 people from drowning

Authorities say a teenager has saved a police officer and three young women from drowning after a car plunged into a south Mississippi river

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