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SHATTERED JUSTICE
Tameshia Shelton is freed from prison after 11 years. Court said DA failed to prove guilt ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’ in murder case
Tameshia Shelton’s lawyers are asking Circuit Judge James T. Kitchens to dismiss the indictment. If he grants the request, her case would mark the seventh exoneration in the same judicial district — a state record.
caregiving & REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH
This county lost its hospital. Bringing it back is easier said than done
Today, Humphreys County has no hospital, no emergency room, no urgent care clinic, and no county health department. It is one of more than 100 rural hospitals in the U.S. that have fully closed since 2005.
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Chief says investigators have videos of Black student hanging from tree at Delta State University
‘If you don’t like it, go somewhere else’: New band director at Delta State mocked trans people, women and other groups on podcast
1937: Jackie Ormes’ cartoon published in Pittsburgh Courier
Cartoons by Marshall Ramsey
Help us report on the June 14 shooting in Senatobia
Last month, at the Walmart Supercenter parking lot on Highway 51 in Senatobia, Mississippi, 1-year-old Kohen Wiley was killed during a police shooting. If you know anything about what happened that day – if you were around, if you have any photo or video evidence, if you witnessed the incident, or if you know someone who did – we want to hear from you.
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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Dying in custody: inside mississippi prisons
They spent years in solitary confinement in Mississippi despite suicide risk
MDOC for decades has regularly held incarcerated people in solitary confinement for weeks, months and, in some cases, years at a time.
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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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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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