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Mar 22 2024
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Mississippi woman enters plea agreement after fraud charge
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – A Neshoba County woman has been charged with fraud after an investigation by the Investigations Division of the Mississippi Department of Human Service (MDHS). MDHS officials announced April Long, 44, entered a plea agreement with the district attorney before the Neshoba County Circuit Court on March 4, 2024. According to officials, Long received an over issuance of
WJTV 12Apr 10 2024
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Mississippi bill would limit where transgender people can use bathrooms in public buildings
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi’s Republican-controlled House voted Wednesday in favor of a measure that would restrict transgender people’s use of bathrooms and locker rooms in public buildings, including university dormitories. The bill, which now goes back to the Republican-led Senate, says people are either male or female “as observed or clinically verified at birth” and must use the
Associated PressApr 10 2024
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Former Mississippi officers who admitted to torturing 2 Black men face sentencing in state court
Six former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to a long list of state and federal charges for torturing two Black men will be sentenced Wednesday in state court. The six white former Mississippi law enforcement officers who attacked Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker in January 2023 have already been sentenced to federal prison terms ranging from about 10 to 40
Fox News (Online News)Mar 05 2024
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Early voting bill advances in Mississippi Senate
A Senate committee on Tuesday advanced a measure that would allow Mississippi voters to cast ballots — in person — for 15 days prior to an election, including the Saturday before. “Mississippi is one of only three states that doesn’t allow early voting,” said Senate Elections Chairman Jeremy England, a Republican from Vancleave and author of SB2580. “… This just allows more access to the
Mississippi Today NewsMar 05 2024
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Racehorse stolen from Mississippi recovered in Kentucky
HINDS COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) – Agents with the Mississippi Agriculture and Livestock Theft Bureau (MALTB) recovered a racehorse stolen from Mississippi in Todd County, Kentucky. On February 23, 2024, Terry police received a report about the stolen racehorse, worth $7,000. A few days later, agents with the MALTB were asked to assist in the investigation, and they took the lea. During the
WJTV 12Mar 05 2024
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Mississippi authorities recover stolen racehorse in Kentucky
TERRY, Miss. (WLBT) - A racehorse stolen out of Terry, Miss., is on its way home. On Tuesday, the Mississippi Agriculture and Livestock Theft Bureau announced it had recovered the horse in Todd County, Kentucky. The horse was stolen on February 23. According to the Terry Police Department’s initial report, the animal was valued at $7,000. MALTB was asked to assist in the investigation on
WLBT 3Mar 13 2024
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Mississippi Medicaid expansion is at a crossroads over work requirement
In Mississippi, the poorest state in the nation, Republican lawmakers have loosened their decadelong resistance to expanding Medicaid and making health insurance available to roughly 200,000 of the state’s low-income residents. But some Republican leaders have said they will not approve a bill without a work requirement, a provision critics say could still leave the most vulnerable
NBC News (Online)Mar 20 2024
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Mississippi business owners concerned about possible TikTok ban
STONE COUNTY, Miss. (WHLT) – Mississippi TikTokers who use the social media app to grow their businesses and brands said a back on TikTok could harm the economy. Jessie Whittington, of Ramsey Springs, grew her business, Country Lather Soap Works, using TikTok. Since 2020, Whittington has shared with her nearly 81,000 followers how she makes her products. She said 90% of her weekly orders are
WJTV 12Mar 20 2024
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‘Monster’ Cop in Mississippi’s Racist, Torturous ‘Goon Squad’ Sentenced
Another one of the white Mississippi officers involved in viciously torturing and framing two Black men as part of their so-called “Goon Squad” has been sentenced for their vigilante-style violence. Former Rankin County Deputy Daniel Opdyke, 28, was sentenced to 17.5 years in prison Wednesday for his role in torturing and violently abusing Eddie Terrell Parker and Michael Corey Jenkins.
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