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Lawmakers approve 50-50 joint custody in divorce cases and send bill to the governor

If Reeves signs the bill into law, chancery court judges, or chancellors, would be required to favor equal parenting time in ...
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Anna Hu joins Mississippi Today as inaugural Haselhorst Fellow

Anna Hu has joined Mississippi Today as the newsroom’s first reporting fellow focused on mental health and underserved ...
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Mississippi’s top health official says he’s not going to the CDC

Dr. Dan Edney has been the Mississippi state health officer since 2022, and he says he's staying in that job. Edney had been ...
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Jackson State officials plan to put $500K from FedEx toward business student scholarships and internships

A $500,000 gift from FedEx to Jackson State University will go toward helping business students gain professional development ...
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Southaven residents and advocate groups appeal state’s decision to grant xAI permit

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Mississippi works to update child care regulations to avoid risk of losing federal funding

Mississippi Department of Human Services Director of Early Childhood Care and Development Chad Allgood at the grand opening of a MDHS Resource and Referral Center in 2021. Credit: Vickie D.
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She died after contracting cancer in prison. A bill was just signed into law in response to her story

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Greenwood Leflore Hospital will lay off nearly a fifth of its staff and close some clinics

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Mississippi alcohol shortage continues with 170,000-case backlog in ABC warehouse

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IHL kicks off search for Mississippi University for Women’s next president

Nora Roberts Miller, president of Mississippi University for Women, speaks to the media about the school’s opposition to a legislative bill suggesting the university be merged with Mississippi State ...
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Amazon is investing $12 billion to build more data centers in Mississippi

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‘A whitewash’: Emails show MDHS pushed to hamstring probe into welfare misspending

The independent audit serving as the guide in the state’s lawsuit to recoup millions in stolen or misspent welfare funds was “severely limited” in scope — a major public concern as the welfare fraud ...