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Mississippi Today staff wins top investigative prize, other awards ...
Jun 20, 2023 · Mississippi Today’s Sara DiNatale and Alex Rozier won the 2022 Bill Minor Prize for Investigative Reporting, and several of the newsroom’s reporters won a dozen other 2022 Mississippi Press Association awards.
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Mississippi Today’s Taylor Vance and Bobby Harrison interview Central District Supreme Court Justice Jim Kitchens about his Nov. 26 runoff election. Kitchens is being challenged by state Sen. Jenifer Branning, R-Philadelphia.
Justice Department says Mississippi town violates residents' rights
Sep 26, 2024 · Lexington Police Department engaged in excessive force, illegal searches and sexual harassment, the Justice Department concluded in a report released Thursday. “Lexington is a small, rural community but its police department has had a heavy hand in people’s lives, wreaking havoc through use of excessive force, racially discriminatory ...
Mississippi Today staffers win top investigative prize, other awards
Jul 1, 2024 · Mississippi Today’s Isabelle Taft, Kate Royals and Will Stribling won the 2023 Bill Minor Prize for Investigative Reporting, and several of the newsroom’s journalists won other honors during the 2023 Mississippi Press Association awards.
National Press Club awards Mississippi Today with its highest press ...
Sep 25, 2024 · WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Press Club is honoring Mississippi Today — a nonprofit, non-partisan newsroom based in Jackson, Mississippi — with its highest honor for press freedom, the John Aubuchon Press Freedom Award.
Mississippi votes: Trump sweeps state, congressional incumbents ...
Nov 6, 2024 · Former President Donald Trump won Mississippi handily, and the state’s incumbent congressional leaders facing reelection were returned to office on Tuesday night. With 98% of the statewide vote in, Trump led Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris 61% to 38% in Mississippi on Tuesday night.
She overcame trauma and addiction but still went to prison ...
Mar 6, 2024 · Georgia Sloan lived half her life in trauma and abuse when she started using drugs. Her mother was addicted. Her father was murdered when she was a child, and her stepfather was abusive. Drug overdoses took away her husband and brother, and while she was in jail her infant daughter died in an accident.
Sun sets on Mississippi State Fair - Mississippi Today
Oct 14, 2024 · Sun begins to set Sunday, Oct. 13, 2024, at the 165th Mississippi State Fair in Jackson, Miss. Credit: Mukta Joshi/Mississippi Today. Mississippi’s 165th state fair just came to an end.
Lawsuit to officially outlaw abortion in Mississippi may not have ...
Nov 3, 2024 · A group of conservative doctors — Mississippi members of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists — filed a lawsuit asking the courts to overturn a 1998 ruling by the Mississippi Supreme Court saying the state constitution provides a right to an abortion based on privacy.