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Crime
Physician Seeks Dismissal of Prison Contract Bribery Case
A physician accused of bribing Mississippi's former prisons chief says charges against him should be dismissed because prosecutors can't prove the corrections official did anything to improperly influence prison medical …
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Education
How All Can Help Teenagers Graduate
Graduation is the most important time for seniors. This is the beginning of the transition from high school to college, and the transition from being told you are just a …
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State
UPDATED: Solar Power: A Mississippian's Guide
Attorney General Jim Hood is helping Mississippians considering using solar power learn the costs and benefits of choosing the alternative power source.
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City & County
New Washer and Dryer A Big Deal for Jackson Elementary School
Third-graders at Jackson Public Schools' North Jackson Elementary School received a lesson beyond reading, writing and arithmetic today: separating, loading and folding.
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Crime
Minor Sex Trafficking Sting Nets 28 Arrests, But No Children
In a national sting operation aimed at recovering children exploited into sex trafficking, the Jackson division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation made 28 arrests—but found no children.
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Education
JPS Supe Intends to Resign
Jackson Public Schools Superintendent Cedrick Gray gave the school board his verbal intent to resign on Friday at a special school-board meeting.
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Delay Threatens Tax Benefit as Kemper Plant Nears $7 Billion
Mississippi Power Co. now says it won't complete its Kemper County power plant until the end of the year, a delay of a month that pushes the price tag up …
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Education
Third-grade Reading Campaign Expanding with Low-income Outreach
For Mississippi's third graders, the stakes for good performance on the reading test that can knock them out of timely promotion to fourth grade are now higher than ever.
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LGBT
Roberta Kaplan: ‘Someone is Responsible’
On Nov. 6, several witnesses took the stand in a federal courtroom for the first hearing in four Mississippi same-sex couples' challenge to the state's adoption ban.
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Ex-State Sen. Robertson Pleads Guilty to Embezzlement Charge
Former Mississippi state Sen. Tommy Roberston pleaded guilty Monday to one count of embezzling more than $379,000 from a $484,000 construction loan he handled for a couple in 2013, when …
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Biz Roundup
New Stores at Northpark and Minority Male Makers
Northpark Mall recently added three new stores to its tenant lineup: Comfort Zone, Korset and SubZero Cream.
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Jacksonian
Eddie Young
Flowood resident Eddie Young, the co-director of the Reservoir Youth Basketball and Cheerleading League, has a vision. He wants his league to not only be the best youth basketball league …
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Jacksonian
John Tierre
John Tierre, an Omaha, Neb., native and owner of Farish Street restaurant Johnny T's Bistro & Bar, knew that, even as a child, he wanted to be an entrepreneur.
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Jacksonian
Austin Wilkes
Madison-based hip-hop artist Austin Wilkes, known to fans as Mildred Noor, entered the music world with a bit of an awkward conversation.
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Obama to Honor 5 Dallas Officers Shot by Man Out for Revenge
President Barack Obama will be in a different city but still in an all-too-familiar place when he leads the nation in honoring more lives cut short by gun violence, this …
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Art
Susan McGee’s Funky Muses
Susan McGee wets a sheet of watercolor paper and drops paint on the surface, the color spreading and creating marks on the wet canvas.
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Mindsets Must Change to Stop Juvenile Crime
Assumptions that a citizen execution is appropriate for a property crime and that certain young people can't be helped and should be locked up are at the crux of our …
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DA Files: What Is Case No. 16-120?
This Hinds County Circuit Court case, 16-120, serves as the central mystery to the ongoing legal morass surrounding District Attorney Robert Shuler Smith.
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Mississippi Governor Cuts Spending 2 Months into Budget Year
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant is cutting $56.8 million from the $5.8 billion state budget to make up for an accounting error.
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Education
Jackson State to Cut Budget and Borrow Money to Aid Finances
Jackson State University will cut its next budget by nearly 8 percent and borrow $6 million as it tries to cut expenses and rebuild financial reserves.
