Dau Mabil Family Wants Second Autopsy After Body Found in Pearl River
Dau Mabil’s family wants an second autopsy after fishermen found his body in the Pearl River weeks after he went missing.
Dau Mabil’s family wants an second autopsy after fishermen found his body in the Pearl River weeks after he went missing.
Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba said he wants JXN Water to engage more with the community and promised more road repairs coming soon.
Efforts to expand JTRAN, Jackson’s public-transit system, hit a roadblock when Ridgeland’s mayor refused to allow stops at Walmart and Northpark Mall.
Jackson Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba called renewed efforts for a state takeover of Jackson’s water system an “effort to seize control of a Black city.”
Lawmakers are renewing efforts to create a regional utility authority to take over the Jackson water system after a similar bill failed last year.
Rampant misinformation about the Hinds County pauper’s graveyard on social media is “harmful,” Jackson Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba warned.
Jackson, Miss., officials are still reviewing proposals for the next vendor to handle trash collection in the city.
A Jackson city councilman says he’s drafting ordinances related to homelessness in Jackson, targeting panhandling and settling on vacant property.
After failing to notify two men’s families about their deaths this year, the Jackson Police Department has adopted a new death-notification policy requiring officers to
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