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Mississippi governor approves bill allowing electronic search warrants
Gov. Tate Reeves has signed a bill into law allowing for a more digital-friendly method of issuing and receiving search warrants. Now that it’s enacted, House Bill 295 authorizes electronic signatures to be utilized for search warrants. Law enforcement officers can now use an electronic platform on the scene to...
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Transformational Education Bill Becomes Law
On Friday, April 26 the Mississippi House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed House Bill 4130, the “Mississippi Student Funding Formula”, that is based on individual student...
Transformational Education Bill Becomes Law
On Friday, April 26 the Mississippi House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed House Bill 4130, the “Mississippi Student Funding Formula”, that is based on individual student...
EPA absolves MDEQ, Health Department of discrimination in funding Jackson water
About a year and half ago, on the heels of Jackson’s infamous water system failure, advocates and politicians from Mississippi began publicly questioning the...
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Despite a downward trend in teen births, Mississippi tops nation in 2020
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Mississippi again leads the nation in teen births despite declining rates both in the state and across...
Government
Study: Mississippi among minority of states most dependent on sales tax
The individual income tax, which House Speaker Philip Gunn, Gov. Tate Reeves and others want to eliminate in Mississippi, is the largest source of...
Headline
‘Whipping child’: Nancy New asked highest officials for help before arrests in welfare scandal
In the days and weeks leading up to their arrests in early 2020, Nancy New and her son Zach New sought help from Mississippi’s...
State News
‘It was an easy choice for me’: 17% of teachers left their district in the 2020-21 school year
Jasmine Cleark-Gibson left teaching last month after seven and a half years in the classroom. It was time for a change. The lack of...
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‘I am very disappointed’: Bill LaForge abruptly out as Delta State president
The Institutions of Higher Learning Board of Trustees has decided that Delta State University president William LaForge’s last day will be at the end...
State News
New law gives MDOC commissioner choice in how people are executed
Mississippi is set to become the first state where prison officials can choose how a person sentenced to death is executed.
Starting July 1, the...
