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Navigating Mississippi’s Opioid Epidemic

Marsha Stone made it out of college, but not without a drug and alcohol addiction she could not shake. She found herself at the age of 24 with three children …

Marsha Stone, who runs an addiction recovery center in Texas, said Mississippi should look at …

• July 19, 2017

Ward 7 Gets a Pothole Demo

Jack Wilson Sr. kneeled on the pothole-dotted asphalt road with a hammer in his hand the afternoon of July 14. The determined 81-year-old man wore a light blue polo shirt …

Workers for Gluckstadt-based Mega Technologies, LLC fill potholes on Northview Drive in Fondren. The potholes …

• July 19, 2017

The Future of the JFP Chick Ball

First, I'll share the sad news in case you haven't heard. We have reluctantly decided to postpone the JFP Chick Ball again this year, as we did in 2016, and …

I started the Chick Ball to be a different kind of fund-raising event—intentionally inexpensive to …

• July 19, 2017

Dorcus Thigpen

Mississippi Mass Choir Director Dorcus Thigpen says the only meeting of the musical group she has ever missed in the nearly 30 years since its founding was the first one—and …

Dorcus Thigpen and her son, Dathan Thigpen Photo courtesy Dorcus Thigpen

• July 19, 2017

The Right to Pre-Trial Justice for All?

Scott County law enforcement officers arrested Joshua Bassett on Jan. 3, 2014, under a warrant for grand larceny and possession of meth. Bassett could not know then that he would …

Two men in Scott County settled their complaint against the 8th Circuit Court there after …

• July 19, 2017

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• July 19, 2017

Sparks Fly Over Grove Park Golf Course

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• July 19, 2017

To Avoid Funerals, Mississippi Drug Summit Targets Opioid, Heroin Addiction

Attorney General Jim Hood believes he has been to several funerals of people this year who have died from opioid overdoses, but said that no one talked about the cause.

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• July 19, 2017

(L-R) Jason Crosby, Jimmy Herring, Jeff Sipe, Kevin Scott and Matt Slocum of Jimmy Herring …

• July 18, 2017

APNewsBreak: US Restoring Asset Seizures, With Safeguards

The Trump administration will soon restore the ability of police to seize suspects' money and property with federal help, but The Associated Press has learned the policy will come with …

Attorney General Jeff Sessions plans to ease restrictions on asset forfeiture, but also to impose …

• July 18, 2017

Trump Lets Iran Deal Live, but Signals He May Not for Long

Having accused Iran of flouting the nuclear deal, President Donald Trump was inclined to tell Congress that Tehran was violating it. His national security aides talked him out of it, …

Having accused Iran of flouting the nuclear deal, President Donald Trump was inclined to tell …

• July 18, 2017