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Wake up informed. Sign up for our free daily newsletter and join over 35,000 Mississippians who start their day with Mississippi Today. This is the first of a year-long look at Mississippi’s parole ...

Never-before-seen text messages show former Gov. Phil Bryant tried to shepherd a proposal to use welfare funds on the construction of a new volleyball stadium for retired NFL player Brett Favre – a ...

Mississippi Today, in partnership with Rethink Mississippi (an initiative sponsored by the nonprofit Working Together Mississippi) and the University of Mississippi Center for Population Studies, has ...

There have been bipartisan calls from senators to restore the report on missing and murdered Indigenous people, which they say has nothing to do with DEI. Wake up informed. Sign up for our free daily ...

The state ignored or was unaware of allegations of jailhouse rape, brutal beatings and corrupt acts by sheriffs and their deputies, even when there was ample evidence to examine. Wake up informed.

Wake up informed. Sign up for our free daily newsletter and join over 35,000 Mississippians who start their day with Mississippi Today. Medicaid expansion, which for more than a decade has been ...

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