As a Mississippi town reels from a devastating tornado, a displaced family finds its way home
ROLLING FORK, Miss. (AP) - As a deadly tornado barreled toward their home in the Mississippi Delta, Ida Cartlidge only had time to scoop up her 1-year-old son, Nolan, and hold him close. Cartlidge huddled with her husband and three sons on the living room floor of their Rolling Fork mobile home, its thin walls all that...
Apr 08, 2024
Mississippi state budget is expected to shrink slightly in the coming year
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Budget writers in the Mississippi Legislature will have slightly less money to spend during the coming year than they did in the current one. Top members of the House and Senate met Friday and set a revenue estimate of $7.6 billion for the year that begins July 1. That is a decrease of 1% from the...
Apr 08, 2024
11 injured as bus carrying University of South Carolina fraternity crashes in Mississippi
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) - Eleven people were injured when a bus carrying University of South Carolina students blew a tire and hit a concrete barrier in Mississippi. Mississippi state troopers said the driver and a student were critically injured and taken by helicopter to hospitals after the crash Friday, while nine...
Apr 08, 2024
Mississippi capital to revamp how it notifies next of kin about deaths with Justice Department help
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - After men near Mississippi's capital were buried in a pauper's cemetery without their relatives' knowledge, the U.S. Justice Department will help the city's police revamp policies for performing next-of-kin death notifications. The intervention follows the discovery that seven men were buried in u...
Apr 05, 2024
Medicaid expansion plans and school funding changes still alive in Mississippi Legislature
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Bills to expand Medicaid and rewrite the funding formula for public schools are among measures still alive in the Mississippi Legislature. Tuesday was the deadline for House and Senate committees to consider general bills and constitutional amendments originating in the other chamber. Surviving le...
Apr 03, 2024
What to expect in Mississippi's US House primary runoff
WASHINGTON (AP) - Two Republicans will compete on Tuesday for the right to challenge 16-term Democratic incumbent Rep. Bennie Thompson in Mississippi's 2nd Congressional District. Ron Eller and Andrew Scott Smith were the top vote-getters in the March 12 primary, but neither received the vote majority needed to avoid t...
Apr 01, 2024
Mississippi Senate passes trimmed Medicaid expansion and sends bill back to the House
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi lawmakers will try to negotiate on expanding Medicaid in one of the poorest states in the U.S. after the Senate voted Thursday for a vastly different plan than one proposed by the House. The upper chamber's proposal would insure fewer people and bring less federal money to the state th...
Mar 29, 2024
Adams County supervisors seek to revive disbanded swimming pool commission
NATCHEZ, Miss. - County supervisors are seeking people to appoint to the commission that oversees the Natchez-Adams County swimming pool. The city and county boards suspended the commission last year because it was dysfunctional. The Board of Supervisors on Monday agreed to solicit commission candidates wanting to b...
Mar 22, 2024
Mississippi ex-deputy gets 20-year sentence in racist torture of 2 Black men
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A former Mississippi sheriff's deputy was sentenced Tuesday to about 20 years in prison for his part in torturing two Black men last year. Hunter Elward was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Tom Lee, who handed down a 241-month sentence. Lee is also due to sentence five other former law enforcement...
Mar 19, 2024
Mississippi ballot initiative process faces narrowing path to being restored
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A push to revive Mississippi's ballot initiative process is in peril as proposals are receiving weak support from Senate Republicans, and the House and Senate are pushing significantly different plans. In a narrow 26-21 vote Thursday, the state Senate gave first approval to a bill that would allow...
Mar 18, 2024