Executive Director Zeo Grover of Stop Gun Violence believes that adjusting legislation to close “loopholes” around the definition of domestic violence and requiring background checks before all firearm purchases could lower the risks of gun violence, calling these measures a “common-sense start.”
“Multiple prosecutors” are still examining the facts and making decisions about criminal charges in Mississippi’s sprawling welfare scandal that saw millions in funds meant for poor families go instead to wealthy celebrities, Mississippi State Auditor Shad White said on Thursday, Sept. 15.
Mississippi cities are adopting a system of using automated license plate readers to ticket road users without valid vehicle liability insurance. A lawsuit filed Sept. 1, 2022, disputes the legality of the practice.
The search for new evidence to bring legal accountability for those involved in the 1955 lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi during the Jim Crow era continues, filmmaker Keith Beauchamp says.
Mississippi House Rep. Ronnie Crudup Jr. told the Mississippi Free Press on Wednesday that Monday’s water failures reminded him of the 2021 crisis. Gov. Tate Reeves’ press conference on Monday, he said, “gave me a little hope.”
A lawsuit filed Aug. 16, 2022, accused Lexington Police Department of violating the constitutional rights of Black citizens.
Investigators accessed missing University of Mississippi Student Jimmie “Jay” Lee’s Snapchat conversations, seen here, with an account called redeye_24, where the owner of the account asked Lee to meet early on Friday, July 8, 2022.
Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch told a federal court last week that U.S. law already makes mailing abortion pills a crime punishable by up to five years in prison and even racketeering charges.
Federal Judge Carlton Reeves is placing control of the Hinds County Detention Center in Raymond under a yet-to-be-determined receiver to oversee the beleaguered and dangerous facility. Reeves said he had considered detaining county officials due to the dangerous conditions at the jail—and that a new jail would not solve deep-seated problems with management and staffing.
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