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Lawmakers pass much of a $7.4B budget Sunday night, plan to end 2026 session this week
House and Senate leaders told reporters that state spending is growing this year primarily because they’re giving teachers a $2,000 pay raise and pumping more money into the state’s Medicaid program.
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10mChrista Pike is alive a day after Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute her, her lawyers say
Christa Pike was still alive a day after she survived Tennessee's failed attempt to execute her for the 1995 murder of a woman.
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6mFarm worker, 24, dies of heat exposure in North Mississippi
A North Mississippi farm worker died of extreme heat exposure in early September amid one of the hottest summers in recent state history.
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6mEconomic development chief leaves. Unemployment, workforce down: Mississippi Marketplace
Unemployment was down in the Gulfport-Biloxi, Hattiesburg and Jackson Metro areas month over month and year over year at 3%, 2.9% and 3% respectively, accompanied by decreases in the civilian labor force in all three areas.
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2mTrump nominates Jackson-based lawyer Todd Butler to federal appeals court
Trump has nominated Butler, a labor and employment lawyer with Phelps Dunbar, to replace Judge Leslie Southwick.
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6mChanging science behind shaken baby syndrome may give death row inmate a reprieve
The Mississippi Supreme Court allowed a death row inmate to go to the Rankin County Circuit Court to seek post-conviction relief based on the changing science of shaken baby syndrome.