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Snow and ice left widespread damage across northern Mississippi as a massive storm moved across large parts of the U.S. in late January. Read Our Full Coverage
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Mississippi’s largest synagogue was heavily damaged in a fire that investigators say was intentionally set. It’s the same house of worship that the Ku Klux Klan firebombed in 1967 because the rabbi was an outspoken supporter of civil rights.
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Your Feed. Your News. Your Voice. Are you a Mississippian ages 18–24? We want to hear from you! Share how you discover, read, and watch your news.
A Mississippi Today investigation into suffering, secrecy and the business of prison health care.
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Medgar Evers home visitors question omissions to his story
Mississippi colleges turn up in Epstein files
National defense spending bill to send $528M to Mississippi
Ole Miss QB Trinidad Chambliss gets another year of eligibility, under judge’s ruling
Mississippi Senate pushes to let rural hospitals offer new services
Local, state officials vet plans to secure Greenwood Leflore Hospital’s financial future
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High-ranking inmates known as trusties were ordered to do guards’ bidding, former inmates and guards said, and the culture of violence in the jail went straight to the top.
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Mississippi Today Ideas
Fellow Mississippians share fact-based perspectives on the state’s past, present, and, most importantly, its future. Have a perspective to share? We’re open to submissions
Each year since 2022, Mississippi has been paid tens of millions of opioid settlement dollars, money that is supposed to help respond to the overdose public health crisis. But 15% of those dollars — the money controlled by the state’s towns, cities and counties — is unrestricted and being spent with almost no public knowledge. Mississippi Today spent the summer finding out how almost every local government receiving money has been managing the money over the past three years.
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Reporters investigated 42 homicides inside the Mississippi prison system over the last decade and why almost none of the killers were prosecuted.
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Amid an increasingly volatile climate, these stories explore why Mississippians are particularly vulnerable as well as the state’s progress protecting itself against future natural disasters.
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TRUMP CUTS
Follow along on how federal cuts enacted by the Trump administration are affecting Mississippi. Read More
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The other Side Podcast
Mississippi Today’s political team brings you intimate access to the most connected players and observers in Mississippi politics.
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Crooked Letter Sports Podcast
Mississippi-centric sports talk and stories podcast with Mississippi Today’s 14-time Mississippi Sports Writer of the Year Rick Cleveland and Scorebook Live senior reporter Tyler Cleveland.
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