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Mississippi education board returns control to Tunica County School District
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi's Tunica County School District will regain local control next month after state education officials voted Thursday to end years of state conservatorship. The State Board of Education has governed the district since 2015 after audits revealed it...
Editorial Roundup: Mississippi
Greenwood Commonwealth. June 15, 2024. Editorial: Keep Talking On Felon Voting Rights Republican majorities in the state House and Senate have different opinions on whether Mississippi should change the way it decides whether people convicted of any of 22 felonies...
Governors of Mississippi and Alabama place friendly bets on lawmakers' charity softball game
PEARL, Miss. (AP) — State lawmakers from Mississippi and Alabama are playing each other in softball this weekend to raise money for charity — and the states' Republican governors are placing friendly bets on the outcome. The Battle of Tombigbee takes place Saturday at Trustmark...
Judge rules that federal agency can't enforce abortion rule in Louisiana and Mississippi
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge on Monday granted the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, as well as employers in two Southern states, temporary relief from complying with a federal rule that would have required them to provide workers with time off and other workplace accommodations for...
Supervisors vote to allow solar panel farm in central Mississippi over residents' objections
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — What could become Mississippi's largest solar energy project was approved by a county board Monday over objections from people who live near the proposed site. Hinds County supervisors voted 3-2 in favor of a conditional use permit for the Soul City Solar...
3 charged in shooting death of Southern Mississippi defensive back Marcus 'MJ' Daniels Jr.
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — Three people were arrested Friday and charged with capital murder in the death of Southern Mississippi defensive back Marcus “MJ” Daniels Jr., police said. Daniels, 21, was killed Tuesday at an apartment complex in Hattiesburg. ...
Gospel group, basking in resurgence, releases first new music in nearly 50 years
BOSTON (AP) — She made a single gospel soul record in the 1970s with her brothers, when they were all teenagers. Then Annie Brown Caldwell moved on with her life. Decades later, she was running a clothing store in a tiny Mississippi town and singing on weekends with her husband and...
Former executive of Mississippi Lottery Corporation is sentenced for embezzlement
BRANDON, Miss. (AP) — A former vice president of the Mississippi Lottery Corporation has been sentenced to five years of house arrest after she pleaded guilty to embezzlement for giving herself unauthorized pay raises, the state auditor said Thursday. Hope Bishop was in charge of...
Ex-officer in Mississippi gets 1 year in prison for forcing man to lick urine off jail floor
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A former Mississippi police officer was sentenced Wednesday to a year in federal prison for forcing a man he had arrested to lick urine off the floor of a jail cell. Michael Christian Green received the maximum prison time on the misdemeanor charge of acting...
Mississippi woman who oversaw drug trafficking is sentenced to prison, prosecutor says
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi woman who oversaw a drug trafficking organization has been sentenced to 23 years in prison, federal prosecutors say. Linda Hunt, 49, of Crowder, was sentenced Tuesday by U.S. District Court Judge Sharion Aycock. The sentencing came six months after...
