WILL A JURY CONVICT HER AGAIN…?
A Hattiesburg native will be tried for murder a 2nd time in the death of her stepdaughter.
T'kia Smith Bevily is...
T’kia and Morris Bevily Full Interrogation Videos
Below is T'kia Bevily's first interview with detectives
Below is T'Kia Bevily's Full 2nd Interrogation Video
Below is Morris Bevily's 1st and...
Prosecutors Ask to Sequester Jury Due to Defense Counsel’s ‘SweetNLow’ Efforts to Influence Jurors
Claiborne County prosecutors have asked Circuit Judge Tomika Irving to sequester the jury in the May 2 capital murder retrial...
Legislature ends session without reviving ballot initiative
The Mississippi Legislature ended the 2022 session not restoring the initiative process that allowed citizens to place issues on the...
Spending billions, cutting taxes, fear and loathing: The 2022 legislative session wasn’t pretty, but it was historic
During the three-month 2022 legislative session, House Speaker Philip Gunn kept a copy of a January Mississippi Today article that...
After lawmakers go home without extending postpartum Medicaid, six moms speak out.
Thousands of Mississippians stand to lose health insurance later this year because of Speaker of the House Philip Gunn’s refusal...
‘You stuck your neck out for me’: Brett Favre used fame and favors to pull welfare dollars
Former NFL quarterback Brett Favre had a way with Mississippi government officials.
Whether the football star was looking for funds to...
Lawmakers end 2022 session with historic spending spree
Mississippi legislators ended the 2022 session on a two-day spending spree where they spent funds at a pace never before...
‘My Governor is counting on me’: Disgraced welfare director bowed to Phil Bryant’s wishes
Phil Bryant had found his yes man.
Whether the governor wanted grant funds directed to his favored vendors, a partner to...
Governing by text: Phil Bryant’s hidden hand picked welfare winners
The tidal wave of alleged misspending identified by auditors at the Mississippi Department of Human Services was not confined to...
State Auditor Shad White discusses welfare investigation, former Gov. Phil Bryant
Since Auditor Shad White arrested Gov. Phil Bryant’s appointed welfare director in 2020 within a sprawling fraud scheme, state and...
Welfare agency says it can’t ‘take providers by the hand’ to ensure proper spending of $354M in child care funds on tight deadline
Private child care providers across Mississippi are scrambling to spend around $150 million, the remainder of their federal stabilization funds, in the next four months.
The centers, which were hit hard by the pandemic as...
Third graders score close to pre-pandemic levels in state reading test
Mississippi third-graders scored similarly to 2019 levels on the “third grade reading gate,” showing relatively little pandemic learning loss.
The Mississippi Department of Education released the initial results of the Mississippi Academic Assessment Program (MAAP)...
State Auditor Issues Civil Demand on Former DHS Deputy Director
JACKSON, Miss. – Today the Office of State Auditor Shad White served a civil demand for $3,648,557.60 on former Deputy Director of the Mississippi Department of Human Services (DHS) Jacob Black. The demand requires...
Maximus call center workers in Mississippi continue striking for better wages and benefits
Frances Poole says she is still rationing medication from 2019 after doctors raced to save her life by removing her colon.
Last time she attempted to have the pills refilled at the pharmacy, she said...
30,000 state employees, teachers poised to lose name-brand prescription coverage under state plan
More than 30,000 state and public school employees received letters this week informing them their medications will no longer be covered under the state’s prescription drug program as of July 1 — the results...
Divided panel of federal judges refuses to rule on constitutionality of redrawn U.S. House map
A three-judge federal panel that has been overseeing the redistricting of Mississippi’s congressional seats since the early 2000s has declined to rule on whether the state’s four newly drawn U.S. House districts are constitutional.
Judges...
Chief Justice Randolph gave state judges a pay raise, then lawmakers gave them another
Mississippi lawmakers rubber-stamped a pay raise Supreme Court Chief Justice Michael Randolph gave to himself and other state judges last year and provided judges an additional pay raise during the completed 2022 session.
House Bill...
Redistricting gives Republicans chance to increase legislative super majorities
Republicans have a reasonable chance of increasing their much ballyhooed super majorities, at least in the Mississippi House, in the 2023 elections based on the redrawing of the legislative districts earlier this year.
It might...
Inside a $30 million bet on Mississippi’s medical marijuana industry
In an unincorporated area outside Raymond stands what its chief executive claims will be the largest medical marijuana growing and manufacturing operation in Mississippi, if not the southeastern United States.
The 163,000-square-foot behemoth once housed...
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