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Lawmaker apologizes for saying Louisiana leaders should be ‘lynched’ for removing Confederate monuments
Mississippi State Representative Karl Oliver wrote on Facebook that leaders who removed Confederate monuments in Louisiana should be ‘lynched.’ By Harold Gater, Geoff Pender. [Autoplay]
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Police say 8 dead in Mississippi shooting
A man who apparently got into a dispute with his wife and in-laws was arrested in a house-to-house shooting rampage in rural Mississippi that left eight people dead, including a sheriff's deputy. "I ain't fit to live, not after what I done," a handcuffed Willie Corey Godbolt, 35, told The Clarion-Ledger.
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Major “Clean Coal” Project in Mississippi Shuts Down
Billions over budget and three years behind, the Kemper County coal gasification project will now produce electricity using natural gas. By Jason Daley.
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16 Are Believed Dead After Military Plane Crashes in Mississippi
Hours after a plane crashed in the Mississippi Delta on Monday, the Marine Corps said that a KC-130 airplane had suffered a “mishap.”
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Ole Miss Edges Out of Its Confederate Shadow, Gingerly
At Ole Miss, where even an architect of disenfranchisement still has his name on a building, the process of addressing the past is more sensitive than at most universities.
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How a 3-Ton Mess of Dead Pigs Transformed This Landscape
The unusual ecological experiment took place in Mississippi, and the scientists were awed by the results—especially the rivers of maggots. By Christie Wilcox.
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Mississippi’s Draconian Anti-LGBT Law, the Worst in the Nation, Is Set to Take Effect
A federal appeals court has dismissed the challenge to HB 1523, the most expansive ‘religious liberty’ law in the U.S. LGBT people in Mississippi should rightly be very afraid.
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Spies of Mississippi
Sonia Gonzalez-Martinez
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Mississippi schools back down on 'To Kill A Mockingbird' ban; permission slip required
A Mississippi school district will resume teaching "To Kill A Mockingbird" after the book was pulled from a junior high reading list. The Sun Herald reports that Biloxi School District administrators removed the novel from the eighth-grade curriculum earlier this month after the district received complaints that some of the book's language "makes people uncomfortable."
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New Ulysses Grant presidential library at home in the South
STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — It's not ironic, but intentional. Ulysses S. Grant, the Union general who won the Civil War and later the presidency, is back in Mississippi in a way few
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Justices reject appeal over Confederate emblem on Mississippi flag
The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from an African-American attorney who called the Confederate battle emblem on the Mississippi flag “an official endorsement of white supremacy.”
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The New Mississippi Civil Rights Museum Refuses to Sugarcoat History
Our critic visits a museum whose story is still unfolding, from 1960s Jackson, to Ferguson and Charlottesville. It leaves us upset —and that’s good.
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‘What Are We Going to Do About Tyler?’
Tyler Haire was locked up at 16. A Mississippi judge ordered that he undergo a mental exam. What happened next is a statewide scandal.
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Mississippi could become the first US state to have 2 official flags because of a dispute over the Confederacy
A bill in the Mississippi House proposes a two-flag solution to the state's debate over the use of a Confederate symbol in its current flag.
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Mississippi town rejects gay pride parade; lawsuit possible
Organizers of a group that was planning a Mississippi college town's first-ever gay pride parade said Wednesday that they're exploring legal action after city officials denied them a permit. Starkville aldermen voted 4-3 Tuesday to deny the permit requested by Starkville Pride, an LGBT support group, drawing criticism from the city's mayor and leaving some members of the group in tears.
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Only Black People Prosecuted Under Mississippi Gang Law Since 2010
In the lead-up to this year's legislative session in Mississippi, supporters of a tougher gang law in the state talked a lot about the need to arrest white people. But in an ironic twist, the Jackson Free Press has learned that everyone arrested under the existing gang law from 2010 through 2017 were African American. By Donna Ladd.
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Mississippi River flooding worse now than any time in past 500 years
Efforts to control the river’s flow with levees and other structures have increased the risk of dangerous floods. By Emma Marris.
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If an algorithm draws lines on a map, is that the same as land surveying?
Vizaline says its service is not surveying, but Mississippi authorities disagree. By Cyrus Farivar.
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Closed bridges put lives and livelihoods at risk in Mississippi
Stephanie Park, 70, waited with the body of her neighbor for two hours before the Washington County coroner could make it to his house here in the Mississippi Delta. Rigor mortis had set in. About 15 miles to the southwest, Lori Gower, 57, had to drive her Dodge Charger through a nearby farm field swamped by heavy rain to get to her house after work. The car’s engine flooded and her husband, Mack, 64, had to tow her out. Mack, for his part, couldn’t get his diabetes medication delivered.
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Love and Death in Mississippi
Eric Solomon considers Mississippi’s HB 1523 & Zawadski v. Brewer Funeral Services in light of SCOTUS’s Masterpiece Cakeshop decision.
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