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The Mississippi Legislature reconvened today amid a fight over who should decide how to spend $1.25 billion in federal COVID-19 relief funds—the governor, with advice
The Mississippi Supreme Court should immediately impose a moratorium on evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic “to prevent the expected and unprecedented rise in Mississippians being made homeless from evictions,” the Mississippi Center for Justice said in an emergency court filing.
On the day Mississippi recorded its second-biggest jump in COVID-19 cases so far, Gov. Tate Reeves announced plans to relax measures meant to curb the
Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch plans to sue China, accusing the country of “malicious and dangerous acts that caused deaths, health injuries and serious economic loss from the COVID-19 crisis.”
Oxford Police do not plan to charge a man after who used Facebook to post photos of a group of women sunbathing in their own yard.
Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians Tribal Chief Cyrus Ben just announced in an emotional video on Facebook that he tested positive for the coronavirus and
An immigrant with a “severe” case of COVID-19 who was arrested in last year’s Mississippi ICE raids is “at risk of dying” in an ICE prison, his family says.
Mississippi universities are working on some innovative solutions to challenges posed by the outbreak of COVID-19, including low-cost ventilators, 3-D printed masks and more.
After weeks of rejecting calls for a statewide “shelter-in-place” order, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said the time had come for one on Wednesday afternoon, the
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