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Mississippi legislators regroup in mid-May amid pandemic

Jackson, Miss. — Mississippi legislators will start meeting again May 18, two months after they suspended their session because of the coronavirus pandemic, House and Senate leaders said Monday. The announcement came

April 28, 2020

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Protesters drive through Mississippi to urge reopening state

Jackson, Miss. — Dozens of Mississippi motorists drove around downtown Jackson on Saturday, honking horns and encircling the Governor’s Mansion in an effort to get Gov. Tate Reeves to fully reopen the

April 26, 2020

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Governor: Mississippi schools remain closed rest of semester

Jackson, Miss. — Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said Tuesday that public school buildings will remain closed the rest of the semester to slow the spread of the new coronavirus, but he wants schools

April 14, 2020

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Mississippi death toll rises; elective surgeries banned

Jackson, Miss. — Mississippi officials have reported 11 additional deaths from the coronavirus, raising the state’s death toll from the disease to at least 93, as the governor banned all elective surgeries

April 12, 2020

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Mississippi nearing 100 virus deaths, more cases confirmed

Jackson — Many Mississippi churches held online services Sunday to celebrate Easter and to help people maintain distance from one another to try to slow the spread of the new coronavirus as the state’s

April 12, 2020

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Mississippi shows wide racial gap in impact of coronavirus

Jackson, Miss. — Numbers released Wednesday show the stark disparity in how the new coronavirus is affecting black and white Mississippians, reflecting longstanding health problems in a state where African Americans are

April 8, 2020

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Mississippi working to expand hospital capacity for virus

Jackson, Miss. — Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said Monday that hospitals in the state have about 3,000 beds, and projections show that almost 400 more beds will be needed when the state

April 8, 2020

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Pelosi orders impeachment probe: ‘No one is above the law’

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi launched the House of Representatives into a formal impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump on Tuesday, acquiescing to mounting pressure from fellow democrats and plunging a deeply divided

September 25, 2019

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Nooses found hanging from trees at state Capitol

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — State and federal investigators are trying to find out who hung seven nooses in trees outside the Mississippi Capitol early Monday, a day before a U.S. Senate runoff

November 26, 2018

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US Sen. Hyde-Smith praises supporter with “public hanging” remark

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A newly published video shows a white Republican U.S. senator in Mississippi praising someone by saying: “If he invited me to a public hanging, I’d be on the

November 12, 2018

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