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News Briefs
MHP announces enforcement period Labor Day The Mississippi Highway Patrol will begin the 2016 Labor Day Enforcement Period at 6 p.m. Sept. 2, and conclude Sept. 5, at midnight. Due to anticipation of heavy traffic […]
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Jackson mayor skips meeting about sexual harassment lawsuit
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Jackson Mayor Tony Yarber has skipped a meeting where City Council members discussed a former employee’s sexual harassment lawsuit against him. Multiple news outlets report that the council went into a […]
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Mississippi flag removed from Mississippi State University campus
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Another public university in Mississippi has stopped flying the state flag that prominently features the Confederate battle emblem. Mississippi State University becomes the sixth of the state’s eight universities to do […]
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Emotional Bill Clinton discusses leaving foundation if Hillary Clinton wins presidency
WASHINGTON (AP) — When Bill Clinton told the staff of his global charity he would have to step down if Hillary Clinton won the White House, he was vividly clear about how that felt: Worse […]
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Justice Department investigating police officers’ interactions with mentally ill
WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Department lawyers investigating police agencies for claims of racial discrimination and excessive force are increasingly turning up a different problem: officers’ interactions with the mentally ill. The latest example came in Baltimore, […]
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School board asks Supreme Court to review transgender bathroom case
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia school board urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to weigh in on whether a transgender male must be allowed to use the boys bathroom at his high school, […]
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Moss Point man killed in Louisiana bus crash on I-10
LAPLACE, Louisiana (AP) — Louisiana State Police say a 21-year-old Mississippi man was killed and three other Mississippi residents were seriously injured when a bus hit a fire truck and three other vehicles. Trooper Melissa […]
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Suspect confessed to slayings of 2 Mississippi nuns, sheriff says
DURANT, Miss. (AP) — The man arrested in the killing of two nuns in Mississippi has confessed to authorities, a sheriff said Saturday. Holmes County Sheriff Willie March said that he had been briefed by […]
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Hillary Clinton gets first national security briefing as presidential nominee
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — Hillary Clinton received her first national security briefing Saturday as the Democratic presidential nominee, meeting with intelligence officials for an overview of the major threats facing the nation around the […]
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Mississippi nun slayings: Suspect arrested who was early ‘person of interest’
LEXINGTON, Miss. (AP) — A 46-year-old man was charged Friday in connection with the killing of two nuns in Mississippi, authorities said. Rodney Earl Sanders of Kosciusko, Mississippi, has been charged with two counts of capital […]