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Immigration
Supreme Court Strikes Down as Vague Part of Immigration Law
The Supreme Court said Tuesday that part of a federal law that makes it easier to deport immigrants who have been convicted of crimes is too vague to be enforced.
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Project EJECT Expels Gun Offenders to Faraway Prisons
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions' Project EJECT is a controversial blast from the past.
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City & County
AG Sessions Praises Project Eject, Gang 'Surge' in Jackson by Feds, JPD, Others
The U.S. Department of Justice, the Jackson Police Department and a list of other agencies, including from the Gulf Coast, worked together last week on a police sweep in Jackson. …
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National
GAO Says EPA Violated Spending Law on Pruitt's Privacy Booth
An internal government watchdog says the Environmental Protection Agency violated federal spending laws when purchasing a $43,000 soundproof privacy booth for Administrator Scott Pruitt to make private phone calls in …
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City & County
'Man to Man': Mayor, Leaders Talk Empowerment with JPS Middle School Boys
While the middle-school girls of Bailey APAC were away on a girls-only science-related field trip on Friday, the boys were invited into the auditorium to engage with a panel of …
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Food
Mexico Meets South
Eddie Hernandez co-owns Taqueria del Sol, a chain of Mexican restaurants in Georgia. He recently published "Turnip Greens & Tortillas," which features his southern food-meets-Mexican recipes, with writer Susan Puckett.
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City & County
JPS Set to Start Clearing Standards in Corrective Action Plan
The Jackson Public School District has a new 400-page corrective action plan to begin work on, and it is already asking the Mississippi Department of Education to approve its efforts …
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Politics
Governor Vetoes Change in Parole Supervision Fees
Gov. Phil Bryant has vetoed a bill that he says would cause a financial hardship to the Mississippi Department of Corrections.
