Attorney General Jim Hood believes he has been to several funerals of people this year who have died from opioid overdoses, but said that no one talked about the cause.
The controversial "Protecting Freedom of Conscience from Religious Discrimination Act" is now state law, after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the 2016 injunction that prevented House Bill 1523 from becoming law last July.
Children's Defense Fund founder and director Marian Wright Edelman, along with other Jackson-area youth advocates, unveiled a set of recommendations to end zero-tolerance school-discipline policies that feed what CDF and others have termed a "cradle-to-prison pipeline."
The U.S. House of Representatives made good on President Donald Trump's campaign promise of repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act last week, but the legislation could have dire impacts for Mississippi, a Republican leader says.
In February, Mike Hurst, then an assistant U.S. attorney, stepped out of the federal courthouse in Jackson to speak to reporters about an indictment in the biggest public corruption case to rock Mississippi in years.
Mike Hurst, the Republican nominee for Mississippi attorney general, along with a local sheriff, says Democratic incumbent state AG Jim Hood "turned a blind eye to the problems with public corruption in Simpson County."
Youth Media Project student journalist Amber Taylor wrote about watching her boyfriend jumped and then arrested along with his attackers. Illustration by Zeakky Harrington
