The Mississippi State Department of Health hosted its inaugural State Employee Wellness Expo on May 23.

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Analysis by Bobby Harrison: House Speaker Jason White could be described as a bridge between the so-called rural white Democrats who controlled the House for decades and the modern-day Republicans who currently have control in the House.

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Mississippi high schools keep producing top shelf talent, which is why the state's college baseball teams are so successful year after year, Rick Cleveland writes.

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On this day in 1774, Black residents in the Massachusetts Bay colony, detained as slaves, declared in a petition that they were born free.

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Desmond Green spent about two years behind bars charged with a capital murder he didn’t commit.

A Jackson police detective “used a lying, drug-impaired jailhouse informant to lock Green up,” U.S. District Judge Carlton W. Reeves wrote Monday in response to Green’s 2023 lawsuit.

“Qualified immunity is an unconstitutional error. It is past time for the judiciary to correct this mistake.”
— U.S. District Judge Carlton W. Reeves

For more than a half-century, the qualified immunity doctrine has barred many from suing law enforcement officers who were guilty of bad acts.

Could a decision by a federal judge in Mississippi help bring that doctrine to an end?

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State Rep. Dan Eubanks and state Rep. Cedric Burnett have openly panned an apparent plan to turn the old Harrah’s Casino building in Tunica into housing for migrant children.

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On this day in 1961, 27 Freedom Riders headed to New Orleans were arrested in the Jackson, Mississippi, bus station.

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The latest from Marshall Ramsey: Oscar & FBI
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Two state lawmakers are criticizing the pending purchase of a defunct Tunica County casino that could potentially be used to house unaccompanied migrant children, though the deal has not been finalized.

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In this episode Mississippi Stories, Scott Albert Johnson premieres the music video for his song 'Invisible' and discusses his career with Marshall Ramsey.

Watch the interview now.

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A new law will allow pregnant women whose household income is at or below 194% of the federal poverty level to be presumed eligible for Medicaid and receive 60 days of coverage for outpatient care.

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Whether or not to hold back 3rd graders who fail a reading test is one of the more controversial aspects of reading law debates.

For this story, I tried to figure out how many kids are affected by this policy in MS. It was harder than expected.
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The gap between the national average and Mississippi’s eighth-grade reading score hasn’t closed at the rate of fourth-grade reading.

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On this day in 1961, civil rights leaders announced that, despite the attack days earlier by a white mob, the Freedom Rides would continue.

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