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FEMA visits Jackson’s water plant; Lumumba warns of rupturing lines
Federal Emergency Management Agency personnel arrived at the O.B. Curtis treatment plant on Friday to provide technical assistance as Jackson restores pressure in its...
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Jackson water outage forces cancer patients to evacuate the city
After the COVID-19 pandemic forced the American Cancer Society’s Hope Lodge in Jackson to shut down in 2020, officials with the nonprofit were excited...
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Greenwood Leflore Hospital announces clinic closures, layoffs after UMMC submits bid to lease hospital
Greenwood Leflore Hospital announced on Thursday that it is closing some of its operations and laying off more employees due to its perilous financial...
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Jackson water pressure improves Thursday, and state launches distribution sites
In their first shared press conference since both declaring states of emergency for the city’s rundown water system, Gov. Tate Reeves and Jackson Mayor...
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JSU seeking federal funding to study water system, but state says it’s ‘not a guarantee’Â
Jackson State University wants to use federal pandemic relief funds to study overhauling the campus water and sewer system, an investment that officials say...
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Deputies were supposed to take him to the hospital. They killed him instead.
If Corey Maurice McCarty Hughes stopped taking his medication, his family knew what to do. When he started to become paranoid or barricaded himself...
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Juvenile detention facility not severely impacted by water crisis, officials say
Days after an emergency was declared over Jackson’s water system, Hinds County’s youth detention center located in the city is getting by with bottled...
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‘They need this in order to live.’ For kidney patients, the Jackson water crisis has especially high stakes
Thousands of Jacksonians with kidney failure rely on clean water to power the dialysis treatments that keep them alive. As the city’s water system...
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Senate Medicaid expansion plan passes, conference with House likely
The Senate plan, which supporters say is more conservative than the House’s option, was adopted on Thursday by a...
Senate Medicaid expansion plan passes, conference with House likely
The Senate plan, which supporters say is more conservative than the House’s option, was adopted on Thursday by a...
Senate passes Medicaid expansion ‘lite’ with veto-proof majority
An austere version of Medicaid expansion, which for more than a decade has been blocked by legislative leaders, passed...
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Senate Medicaid expansion plan passes, conference with House likely
The Senate plan, which supporters say is more conservative...
Senate Medicaid expansion plan passes, conference with House likely
The Senate plan, which supporters say is more conservative...