Meet the Candidates for U.S. House of Representatives in Mississippi’s March 12 Primaries
Mississippi voters will select Republican and Democratic nominees for U.S. House of Representatives in the primaries on Tuesday, March 12.
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Mississippi voters will select Republican and Democratic nominees for U.S. House of Representatives in the primaries on Tuesday, March 12.
Mississippi voters will select Republican and Democratic nominees for U.S. Senate in the primaries on Tuesday, March 12. These are the candidates.
U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith joined 28 fellow Republicans who voted against aid for Ukraine and Israel on Tuesday morning.
The mother of 16-year-old Duvan Perez, who died in a Hattiesburg poultry plant, is suing Mar-Jac Poultry over his death.
A Hattiesburg poultry plant’s failure to follow safety protocols led to the death of 16-year-old Duvan PĂ©rez, federal regulators said.
A 16-year-old Guatemalan immigrant worker became the third worker to die at a Hattiesburg, Miss., poultry plant since 2020 after a machinery-related accident last week.
Karen Musalo, an expert on refugee law at the University of California College of the Law in San Francisco, explains what the new asylum rule entails, what its impact will be and why it is so controversial.
“I’ve been researching human rights and immigration from Central America since the 1980s,” Elizabeth Oglesby writes. “In today’s polarized debates over immigration, the substantial contributions that Central American immigrants have made to U.S. society over the past 30 years rarely come up.”
The undocumented immigrants living at the Westside Trailer Park in Canton, Miss., petitioned the Canton Municipal Utilities, which restored their street lights in July 2022 after several years of darkness. They have set their eyes on getting their roads fixed.
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