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SNAP benefits can be replaced after food loss in winter storm mississippitoday.org/2026/01/28/s...
SNAP benefits can be replaced after food loss in winter storm - Mississippi Today
Feb. 3 is the deadline for people to apply for replacement benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program if they lost food because of power outages caused by the winter storm.
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January 30, 2026 at 1:09 PM
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Lexington ousts police chief and adopts policing reforms - Mississippi Today
The Lexington Board of Aldermen have adopted policing reforms recommended by the Department of Justice and fired the city's police chief.
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January 27, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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Newly surfaced footage from Rankin jail captures guard’s blow that broke inmate’s jaw mississippitoday.org/2026/01/22/v...
Video shows guard’s jaw-breaking blow to inmate - Mississippi Today
A video, captured by security cameras inside the Rankin County jail, shows guard Jordan McQueary striking an inmate, Dustin Rives and breaking his jaw.
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January 22, 2026 at 2:14 PM
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Anna Wolfe gives update on Teddy DiBiase welfare scandal trial - Mississippi Today
Mississippi Today Jackson Editor Anna Wolfe, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her investigative reporting on Mississippi's massive welfare scandal, provides insight on the first – perhaps only – criminal ...
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January 20, 2026 at 3:33 PM
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The bill would be named the Robert G. Clark Jr. Voting Rights Act, in honor of Clark, who in 1967 became the first Black Mississippian elected to the state Legislature in the modern era.
State lawmakers push for protections as Supreme Court considers dismantling Voting Rights Act - Mississippi Today
Rep. Bryant Clark, a Democrat from Pickens and son of Robert Clark, said his father would be horrified to know that the U.S. Supreme Court is considering rolling back the protections that he and so ma...
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January 20, 2026 at 12:18 AM
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Midwest Underground Railroad Network looking to save historic 1858 homestead
The Midwest Underground Railroad Network is hoping to save the Van Oostenbrugge Homestead, an 1858 home that has fallen into disuse.
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January 13, 2026 at 3:49 PM
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House Speaker Jason White bars Mississippi Today from Capitol press event - Mississippi Today
Since a Mississippi Today report in April about White, some staff and spouses being treated to a Super Bowl trip by a sports-gambling company, he removed Mississippi Today from his press distribution ...
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January 6, 2026 at 12:48 PM
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1960: Marchers protested Jackie Robinson's treatment mississippitoday.org/2025/01/01/1...
1960: Marchers protested Jackie Robinson's treatment - Mississippi Today
On this day in 1960, nearly 1,000 Black protestors marched to the Greenville, South Carolina, airport to protest Jackie Robinson's mistreatment.
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January 1, 2026 at 1:39 PM
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Judge voids decision to end legal status of 60,000 immigrants from Honduras, Nepal and Nicaragua - CBS News share.google/6bFfhhKbfCJm...
Judge voids decision to end legal status of 60,000 immigrants from Honduras, Nepal and Nicaragua
A U.S. District Court judge issued a summary judgment on Wednesday, finding that the effort to revoke the legal status of tens of thousands of Hondurans, Nepalis and Nicaraguans was unlawful
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January 1, 2026 at 11:18 AM
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Reeves grants clemency to another illegally sentenced man - Mississippi Today
For the second time in three weeks, Gov. Tate Reeves has granted clemency to two men sentenced to prison terms beyond the maximum allowed.
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January 1, 2026 at 12:05 AM
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State appeals court rules lower court must dismiss Gary lawsuit against gun industry - Inside INdiana Business
The city filed a lawsuit in 1999 to hold gun manufacturers and sellers liable for firearms later used in crimes, and the case has gone through several appeals over the decades.
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December 30, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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This superhero, born out of the Jackson's underground volcano, is here to battle the city's detractors - Mississippi Today
The immortal man – born 1822, the year Jackson was founded – wears a green suit inspired by the city's flag and takes to the skies in the inaugural issue of Jackson Comics.
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December 29, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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December 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Behind the walls of Indiana’s ICE detention facility indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/12/22/b...
Behind the walls of Indiana's ICE detention facility • Indiana Capital Chronicle
Miami Correctional Facility in Miami County now has 558 ICE detainees as the prison has ramped up immigration operations.
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December 22, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Tell Trump to Keep His Hands Off The Post Office
The U.S. Postal Service is again under attack by Donald Trump and the world's biggest business con, Elon Musk. Trump’s plans to overhaul the post office and privatize it would be disastrous for people...
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December 17, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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US Supreme Court will hear appeal of Black death row inmate over racial bias in Mississippi jury selection - Mississippi Today
The U.S. Supreme Court in the spring will hear the appeal of a Black death row inmate from Mississippi whose case was handled by a prosecutor with a history of dismissing Black jurors for discriminato...
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December 15, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Gun from Emmett Till killing ‘was never hidden’ - Mississippi Today
Longtime owner of .45 allegedly used to kill Emmett Till says the weapon "was never hidden."
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August 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Emmett Till lynching documents detail federal response - Mississippi Today
Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board released over 6,500 pages of federal records on Emmett Till’s Aug. 28, 1955, killing.
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August 22, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Federal judge rules Mississippi Supreme Court districts dilute Black vote, must be redrawn - Mississippi Today
No Black person has ever been elected to the Mississippi Supreme Court without first obtaining an interim appointment from the governor, and no Black person from either of the two other districts has ...
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August 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Confusion after MAP, Inc. loses funding for Head Start - Mississippi Today
Nearly 2,000 families may be without child care at the start of this school year after dozens of child care centers run by Mississippi Action for Progress in northern Mississippi have not reopened aft...
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August 15, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Trump's domestic troop deployment tests the limits of a nearly 150-year-old law www.nwitimes.com/news/nation-...
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August 14, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Trump nominates Mississippi Supreme Court justices to federal bench - Mississippi Today
State Supreme Court Justices Chamberlin and Maxwell will replace Mississippi U.S. District Judges Michael Mills and Sharion Aycock, both of whom decided to take senior status in recent years.
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August 13, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Remembering Emmett Till 70 years after Mississippi lynching - Mississippi Today
Museums are remembering Emmett Till, 70 years after the Black teenager was kidnapped and killed in the Mississippi Delta.
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August 13, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Trump busted in real time as networks' graphics shoot down DC crime claims

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Trump busted in real time as networks' graphics shoot down DC crime claims
No sooner did Donald Trump begin addressing the nation about federalizing the D.C. Police Department and putting National Guard on the streets despite crime being down, MSNBC posted a bright red graph...
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August 11, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Miss. poultry industry's alleged abuse of immigrant workers
Six years after ICE raids on Mississippi poultry plants, current and former immigrant workers say deteriorated conditions persist for both those undocumented and on work visas.
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August 11, 2025 at 4:06 PM