A tornado ripped through northeastern Mississippi on Tuesday evening, leveling a Dollar General store and damaging several other buildings. After the twister passed, the store in Tishomingo, about 242 milies northeast of Jackson, near the Alabama and Tennessee state lines, was a pile of rubble, video posted on social media showed. The tornado also caused […]
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Mississippi governor wants abortions halted during coronavirus outbreak
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. Mississippi’s only abortion clinic must stop performing the procedures during the coronavirus outbreak because of the state’s temporary ban on elective surgery, Gov. Tate Reeves said Tuesday. “We’ll take whatever action we need to, to protect not only the […]
Mississippi governor wants abortions halted during coronavirus outbreak
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. Mississippi’s only abortion clinic must stop performing the procedures during the coronavirus outbreak because of the state’s temporary ban on elective surgery, Gov. Tate Reeves said Tuesday. “We’ll take whatever action we need to, to protect not only the […]
Mississippi reports first coronavirus case
The novel coronavirus has officially reached Mississippi. The Mississippi State Department of Health on Wednesday announced the state’s first presumptive positive case of the virus, COVID-19, in a Forrest County man who had recently traveled to Florida, which has seen at least 26 cases and two deaths from the coronavirus. CORONAVIRUS: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW “Final […]
Biden’s ‘Joe-mentum’ grows as Dem front-runner sweeps Midwest contests, eyes Sanders knockout
History didn’t repeat itself in Michigan for Bernie Sanders. And because of that, the populist U.S. senator from Vermont had an extremely disappointing evening on “Super Tuesday II” — and now faces daunting delegate math that leaves him slipping swiftly out of reach of the Democratic presidential nomination. Just four years ago, it was in Michigan where Sanders […]
Biden’s ‘Joe-mentum’ grows as Dem front-runner sweeps Midwest contests, eyes Sanders knockout
History didn’t repeat itself in Michigan for Bernie Sanders. And because of that, the populist U.S. senator from Vermont had an extremely disappointing evening on “Super Tuesday II” — and now faces daunting delegate math that leaves him slipping swiftly out of reach of the Democratic presidential nomination. Just four years ago, it was in Michigan where Sanders […]
152 Mississippi inmates, backed by Jay-Z and Yo Gotti, sue prison over ‘barbaric’ conditions
Attorneys filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Mississippi State Penitentiary on behalf of 152 inmates who they say live in “abhorrent conditions.” The legal team is asking for class-action status to cover all current and future inmates at the state penitentiary in Parchman, Miss. The Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, Mississippi. (Google Maps) Their lawsuit comes after […]
Mississippi man convicted of murdering 8, including relatives, in bloody rampage
A man accused of killing eight people, including a deputy sheriff, on Memorial Day weekend 2017 was convicted Tuesday by a Mississippi jury. Jurors will now decide whether to impose the death penalty. Prosecutors said Willie Cory Godbolt, 37, fatally shot eight people including relatives and an officer who responded to the domestic disturbance on […]
Mississippi pipeline rupture results in dozens hospitalized, hundreds evacuated
Dozens of people were hospitalized and several hundred were evacuated in Mississippi after a major gas leak late Saturday that appeared to have been caused by recent flooding in the region, according to officials. The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency said in news release a 24-inch pressurized pipe ruptured around 8 p.m. in a heavily wooded area off […]
Mississippi ‘heartbeat’ abortion law blocked by federal appeals court
A federal appeals court is upholding a block on a Mississippi law that would ban abortion at the detect of a fetal heartbeat, around six weeks into a pregnancy. A three-judge panel in the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday found the law to be unconstitutional because it would ban abortion before viability, […]
