More than 138,000 Mississippi residents lost power amid temperatures as high as the 90s since the arrival of severe thunderstorms last Friday, and thousands remained without power as storms continued to pummel the state this morning.
District 5 attorney Doug Evans tried 52-year-old Curtis Flowers six times for murder. Flowers is now suing Evans, accusing him of “malicious prosecution, abuse of process and false imprisonment.”
Gov. Tate Reeves signed a bill replacing a Ross Barnett-inspired state song with Steve Azar’s “One Mississippi.”
“I’ve been promising God I was going to do this for over 50 years, but I was scared to do it because I wanted everybody to just like ole James Meredith, but I knew people didn’t like him. They didn’t want to hear him,” James Meredith, 87, says.
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves lashed out today at “so-called experts” in the medical field as he continued to defy their pleas for him to reissue a statewide mask mandate.
Since May, local officials in Mississippi have changed polling-place locations for at least 55 precincts—more than triple the 17 precinct changes that Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson announced last week, affecting about 65,000 Mississippi voters.
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