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Health Care
Fondren Pregnancy Center Denied Sign Request
The Center for Pregnancy Choices takes up the basement of the Kolb's Cleaners building in Fondren, with a waiting room, two counseling rooms, a back office and one medical room.
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Business
FCC Chairman Sets Out to Repeal 'Net Neutrality' Rules
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai on Tuesday followed through on his pledge to repeal 2015 regulations designed to ensure that internet service providers treat all online content and apps …
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Person of the Day
Roshunda Johnson
Thanks to a career-high 29 points from Roshunda Johnson, the Bulldogs rolled to a 3-0 start with the blowout win in front of 5,321 fans at Humphrey Coliseum.
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Economy
OPINION: Invest in Your Future
Tax season is also right around the corner. A lot of people may go into debt from holiday purchases and then spend all of their tax refunds trying to purchase …
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City & County
Miller Wants to End Waiting Games in Public Works
Robert "Bob" Miller, the newly appointed director of Jackson's Department of Public Works, makes a lot of car references when he talks about city infrastructure.
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Music
Love for the Rebel and the Saint
Kirk Franklin will be a familiar name to many people who grew up in church in the 1990s, but it's a name that is still picking up steam today.
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Food
Your Thanksgiving Guide
This year, celebrate Thanksgiving with family—and through buying locally.
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Meeya Thomas
Meeya Thomas stands 5 feet and 2 inches tall—about three inches short of the national average for women. She says that because of her height, she loves to wear heels, …
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National
Roy Moore Losing GOP Endorsements After New Accusations
Roy Moore's support from fellow Republicans is hemorrhaging after a second woman accused the Alabaman of groping her when she was a teenager in the late 1970s, the latest setback …
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National
Trump Jr.'s WikiLeaks Exchange Adds Intrigue to Russia Probe
President Donald Trump's oldest son released a series of private Twitter exchanges between himself and WikiLeaks during and after the 2016 election, including pleas from the website to publicize its …
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Crime
Fellow Inmate Convicted for Murder of Choctaw Activist in Neshoba Jail
On Thursday, more than two years after activist Rexdale Henry of the Choctaw tribe of Native Americans turned up dead in a Neshoba County Jail cell, a jury found Justyn …
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State
State: Disclosure Could Lead to Inability to Do Executions
Lawyers for the state of Mississippi argued Wednesday that disclosing information could destroy the state's ability to get the drugs needed for executions, urging a federal judge to block death …
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City & County
A Midwife’s Tale: Saving the Scott Ford Houses
People sit at a black folding table in a front yard playing cards, while others watch cars pass with an occasional wave. The scene is common throughout much of Jackson, …
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Crime
'Judicial Kidnapping’ in Pearl Youth Court?
Youth-court judges in Mississippi preside over all matters involving delinquent juveniles in addition to abused, neglected or abandoned children. Youth-court judges have the power to send children to foster care, …
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National
House GOP Weighs Repeal of Health Mandate in Tax Bill
Republicans are weighing a repeal of a key tenet of the Obama-era health care law in their tax overhaul as the House's tax-writing committee begins work on shaping the bill.
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'Defenseless People': Gunman Kills 26 at South Texas Church
A gunman dressed in black tactical-style gear and armed with an assault rifle opened fire inside a small South Texas church, killing 26 people in an attack that claimed tight-knit …
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Russia Hackers Had Targets Worldwide, Beyond US Election
The hackers who disrupted the U.S. presidential election had ambitions well beyond Hillary Clinton's campaign, targeting the emails of Ukrainian officers, Russian opposition figures, U.S. defense contractors and thousands of …
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OPINION: The War on Drugs Isn’t Working
The drug war is not working. Countless lives—including law enforcement officers—are being lost or ruined.
