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Ridgeland, Mississippi · RidgelandNeighbors could hear yelps from inside a 10-by-10-foot shed behind a house on Grand Avenue in west Jackson on an October afternoon in 1982. The location was a known unlicensed personal care home — facilities meant to care for adults, often with mental illness, who cannot live on their own, but which have never been regulated by any state agency. Local police said they couldn’t enter without a warrant and called Mendal Kemp, then-chief of licensi…See the Story
Forty years after health official scaled fence in Jackson to save malnourished personal care home residents, unchecked horrors remain - Mississippi Today
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Ridgeland, Mississippi · RidgelandNote: This is the first in a new series of interviews for Mississippi Today Ideas about the city of Jackson and its future. Check out Mississippi Today’s complete Jackson coverage at this link. Former Jackson Mayor Harvey Johnson recalls a moment in the early 2000s when he was stopped by a man about the Olympic cycling T-shirt he had on. The man wondered if Johnson was an enthusiast. The mayor shared that Jackson was actually a site of Olympic c…See the Story
Former Jackson mayor: I wish Mississippians valued their capital city more - Mississippi Today
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Ridgeland, Mississippi · RidgelandMississippi’s largest hospital quietly left the Mississippi Healthcare Collaborative less than four months after it joined the group as a founding member. The University of Mississippi Medical Center no longer appears on the collaborative’s website. It is unclear if other hospital members will follow suit as they did in 2023 when UMMC terminated its membership with the Mississippi Hospital Association. UMMC and the Mississippi Healthcare Coll…See the Story
UMMC quietly leaves new health care association - Mississippi Today
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Ridgeland, Mississippi · RidgelandFeb. 19, 1923 A photograph of the “Elaine 12” Credit: Courtesy of Arkansas State Archives In Moore v. Dempsey, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-2 that mob-dominated trials violated the due process clause of the 14th Amendment. Black sharecroppers had gathered in a church at Elaine, Arkansas, to discuss fairer prices for their products. White men fired into the church, leading to three days of fighting and the reported killing of five white men an…See the Story
On this day in 1923, rules mob trials ruled unconstitutional
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Ridgeland, Mississippi · RidgelandThis story is the second part in a series. Read the first story here. Three hospitals with some of the lowest use of low-risk C-sections in Mississippi vary in almost every way — location, size and the type of providers who deliver babies. Wayne General is a small, rural hometown hospital in eastern Mississippi. Baptist DeSoto is a large regional hospital just outside of Memphis. And Singing River is a mid-size hospital network on the Gulf Coas…See the Story
These hospitals challenge the C-section status quo - Mississippi Today
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Ridgeland, Mississippi · Ridgelandby Samuel Hughes with contributions from Miracle Jennings, Rowan Luke, Mallory Strickland, Srividya Karuturi, Gretta Graves, Gerome Webster GULFPORT — Tall grass creeps up boarded windows. Overgrown lots hold little but broken glass and flat tires. Rotten porches sag under the weight of years of neglect. These sights of urban decay are common in Mississippi – and cleaning them up is not a simple job. State leaders explain fixing the problem requ…See the Story
Mississippi lawmakers aim to tackle abandoned properties
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Ridgeland, Mississippi · RidgelandFormer U.S. Rep. Steven Palazzo will pay $30,000 to settle with the Federal Election Commission, which found he used campaign money for personal expenses. Palazzo, a certified public accountant and former state legislator who lost his congressional reelection bid in 2023 to now U.S. Rep. Mike Ezell, faced ethics and campaign finance scrutiny for several years while in office. The FEC found he paid $3,000 a month from his campaign to a company he…See the Story
Former U.S. Rep. Steven Palazzo will pay $30,000 to settle campaign violations - Mississippi Today
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