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...
State accepts guilty pleas from Nancy and Zach New in welfare case
The state accepted the guilty pleas of Nancy and Zach New in Mississippi’s sprawling welfare scandal on Tuesday — a move that makes their agreement to cooperate with prosecutors and testify against their co-defendants...
Report: Proposed college aid program will create ‘new problems’ for low-income students
A proposed overhaul of Mississippi’s state financial aid programs is complicated, unlikely to address existing issues and could create problems for low-income students, according to a new report from the Urban Institute.Â
Instead of pursuing...
Lawmakers spent public money on private schools. Does it violate the Mississippi Constitution?
This past session the Mississippi Legislature gave $10 million to K-12 private schools even though the state constitution appears to be one of the few in the nation to prohibit the practice of providing...
Black voter strength diluted in Mississippi Supreme Court districts, federal lawsuit claims
Multiple groups have filed a federal lawsuit claiming Mississippi’s three Supreme Court districts, which have not been redrawn in more than 35 years, dilute Black voter strength.
The lawsuit was filed in the Northern District...
Blue Cross is sitting on a huge pile of money. In some states, consumers would get it back.
Janah Garriga’s 12-year-old daughter, Joshlyn, was diagnosed with T-cell leukemia in February. Joshlyn loves her doctors and nurses at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.Â
But when Garriga took her daughter to an appointment in...
Judge Awakens “Dream Team” With Criminal Contempt Investigation, Special Judge
In a hearing today in Jefferson County Circuit Court, T'kia Bevily and her Sweet team of attorneys stood before Judge Tomika Irving as she faced contempt of court charges for repeated violations of a...
Nancy and Zach New plead guilty to bribery and fraud in state welfare case
Nancy New, a once prominent private school and nonprofit founder, and her son Zach New pleaded guilty to state criminal charges in Mississippi’s sprawling welfare scandal on Friday.
The 69-year-old former educator is pleading guilty...
T’kia Bevily’s ‘Dream Team’s’ Alleged Efforts to Taint the Jury Pool Leads to Emergency Contempt Hearing
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Tkia Bevily's personal "Dream Team" is becoming a nightmare for...
Mayor Lumumba: ‘Paternalistic, racist’ Legislature failed to help Jackson despite having extra billions
Despite having unprecedented extra billions of dollars to spend, Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba said the Mississippi Legislature failed to provide enough help to the capital city, which faces dire infrastructure and crime problems...
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