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Josiah Sampson III CDC Study Examines Potential Link Between COVID-19 and Pediatric Diabetes, As Experts Warned JPS Forced Into Virtual Classes Amid City Water Woes Mississippi Working on Plans for Pandemic Relief Money Mississippi Governor Giving State of State Speech Outdoors Highball Lanes, LaCour Kitchen and Bar and BGCCM Youth Basketball League ‘He Was a Good Son’: COVID-19 Amplified Jackson Violence, Inequities for Black Families Black Mississippi Senators Protest Vote on Race Theory Bill Two Teacher Pay Raise Proposals Alive at Mississippi Capitol Mississippi Governor Signs Bill for Congressional Remap Mental Health Experts: Raise Age of Children Locked in Hinds Juvenile Justice Center USM Merit Health Partnership, JSU Carnegie Classification and MSU "Old Main" Documentary Mississippi: Online and In-Person Class OK Amid Virus Surge Mississippi House OKs Bill on Equal Pay for Women and Men Bill Banning Critical Race Theory Goes to Mississippi Senate
Jackson State University President Thomas Hudson recently appointed Josiah Sampson III as the university's new vice president for Enrollment Management, effective Jan. 18.
Dr. Jessica Lilley and other experts worry that long-term damage from COVID-19 in children may be entirely at odds with popular perception of the virus as “mild.” Now, it seems the Centers for Disease Control and other medical experts are …
Water pressure issues stemming from recent cold weather mean that numerous Jackson Public School locations had to switch to all-virtual learning today, another issue in a long line of problems plaguing the city due to an aging water infrastructure.
Mississippi senators are taking the first steps toward spending some of the $1.8 billion the state is receiving from the federal government for pandemic relief.
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves will discuss his policy priorities during his State of the State address.
Highball Lanes, a combination creole restaurant and 10-lane bowling alley with an attached bar in Jackson's Fondren neighborhood, opened for business with limited hours on Wednesday, Jan. 19.
Tramaine Green, 26, was the oldest of six siblings, and his mother describes him as very protective of anyone he cared about.
Black lawmakers walked out in protest Friday and withheld their votes as the Mississippi Senate passed a bill that would ban schools from teaching critical race theory.
The Mississippi Senate voted Friday to increase teachers' pay, days after the House approved a separate proposal.
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves on Monday signed a bill that redraws the boundaries of the state's four congressional districts to account for changes in population.
Children at the Henley-Young Juvenile Justice Center were abused, a lawsuit filed in 2011 alleged, which led to a federal consent decree forcing Hinds County to make changes to its operations.
The University of Southern Mississippi’s College of Nursing and Health Professions is partnering with Merit Health Wesley in Hattiesburg to add two of the hospital’s nurses to the University’s clinical teaching faculty during the spring 2022 semester.
Mississippi schools are allowed to use a combination of in-person and online classes to try to slow the spread of COVID-19.
Mississippi employers would be required to pay women and men the same amount of money for the same work, under a bill that passed the state House on Thursday.
A Mississippi Senate committee on Thursday advanced a bill that would ban schools from teaching critical race theory, even though the state superintendent of education has said the theory is not being taught in schools and legislators have offered no …