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Mississippi House Ways and Means Committee Chair Trey Lamar

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Jackson Casino Bill Quickly Dies in Mississippi House

by Emily Wagster Pettus March 26, 2024June 11, 2024

A composite of six former Rankin County sheriff’s deputies

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Rankin County’s 6 ‘Goon Squad’ Officers Get 10 to 40 Years For Torturing 2 Black Men

by Emily Wagster Pettus, Michael Goldberg, Report For America and Associated Press March 22, 2024May 15, 2026

Eddie Terrell Parker and his aunt Linda Rawls express their joy in front ot the Mississippi federal courthouse

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‘Goon Squad’ Deputy Behind Most ‘Brutal’ Torture of Black Men Gets 40 Years in Prison

by Emily Wagster Pettus, Michael Goldberg, Report For America and Associated Press March 21, 2024May 15, 2026

Closeup of the face of Former City of Pearl, Miss., police Officer Michael Christian Green

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Ex-Pearl Police Officer Who Made Latino Man Lick Urine Off Jail Floor Pleads Guilty

by Emily Wagster Pettus and Associated Press March 18, 2024May 15, 2026

Close up of a older man with greying hair and wearing a grey suit and red tie

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Mississippi Holds Primaries For 4 U.S. House Seats, 1 Senate Seat

by Emily Wagster Pettus March 12, 2024June 11, 2024

Four legislators lean forward and discuss inside the capitol

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Public-School Funding Showdown Looms in Mississippi Legislature Over Competing Plans

by Emily Wagster Pettus, Michael Goldberg, Report For America and Associated Press March 8, 2024June 13, 2024

A view of the top of the Mississippi state capitol building. A golden eagle sits, wings spread, on top of the dome roof

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Ballot Initiative, Anti-Trans Bathroom Bills Survive Deadline; DEI, Abortion Bills Die

by Emily Wagster Pettus, Michael Goldberg, Report For America and Associated Press March 6, 2024June 13, 2024

A woman stands in a shaded cemetery and looks onto a row of thirteen small square grave markers with US flags

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Black Union Soldiers Honored at Vicksburg Civil War Battlefield

by Emily Wagster Pettus March 5, 2024June 11, 2024

Three photos side by side of two white men and one white woman

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State Attorney General Sues State Auditor To Stop His Lawsuit Against Brett Favre

by Emily Wagster Pettus February 23, 2024June 11, 2024