Former UM chancellor: Gov. Tate Reeves privately acknowledged Medicaid expansion benefits

An amendment to Mississippi’s medical cannabis act passed by the House would keep reports of marijuana businesses breaking regulations from the public — but the health department has already put a freeze on releasing those documents before any changes to the law have been made.Mississippi Today filed a public records request seeking copies of reports regarding three cultivators that have been cited by the Department of Health’s cannabis program last week. One of the cultivator

FEBRUARY 3, 1956Autherine Lucy in 1956 after she was admitted to the University of Alabama. Credit: University of Alabama Office of Strategic Communications
Overcoming racism and threats, Autherine Lucy became the first Black student to attend graduate school at the University of Alabama. She had previously been accepted to the university, only to be rejected when university officials discovered she wasn’t white.
The NAACP’s Thurgood Marshall represented her on the appeal, and she w

CHASE J MCMILLON, 19, of Carthage, Possession of Paraphernalia, Careless Driving, Disobedience of Traffic Control Devices, LCSO.  Bond $1,000, $500, $500.   CHRISTOPHER MOORE, 52, of Jackson, TN, Bench Warrant – Leake County Circuit Court, LCSO.  Bond N/A.   TYLER D NORWOOD, 26, of West, […]
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Sen. Chris McDaniel’s first financial reports for his lieutenant governor campaign and a political action committee he runs leave voters in the dark about where hundreds of thousands of dollars came from and raise questions about whether some donations violated campaign finance law.McDaniel’s PAC reported it raised nearly $474,000 before it was officially created, failed to list the source of that money, and accepted $237,500 from what’s been described as a “dark money&r

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Kosciusko Police and EMS were dispatched to a residence on Fenwick St at 11:55 pm on Wednesday, February 1st when a caller reported that he accidentally shot his girlfriend in the abdomen. The gunshot victim was taken by ambulance to UMMC in Jackson.  The shooter […]
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You probably knew Mississippi produces more NFL players per capita than any other state. It has been that way for a long time.What you might not have known is this: Mississippi will have more natives playing in the 2023 Super Bowl than any other state. And, as you may notice, there’s no mention of per capita there. The Magnolia State will have more players in the game than any other state. Period.Eight native-born Mississippians dot the rosters of the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City C

One to three inches of rain could fall through tonight across most of Mississippi including the local area.  The National Weather Service says flash flooding is possible and the rain could boost river levels which are already at flood stage in some locations.     […]
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Democratic candidates have filed paperwork to challenge Republican incumbents for all eight statewide offices.The deadline to qualify to run for office in the November 2023 elections was Feb. 1. Democrats, who have suffered an ongoing string of elections losses in Mississippi, have candidates to challenge all eight Republican statewide office incumbents.But whether the Democratic candidates, who are mostly unknown statewide, can garner the voter support and financial resources needed to run com

Former University of Mississippi Chancellor Dan Jones said that Gov. Tate Reeves told him in 2015 meeting that he understood how Medicaid expansion would benefit the state but couldn’t agree to champion it for political reasons.Jones, who led the state’s largest hospital University of Mississippi Medical Center before he served as chancellor from 2009-2015, divulged details of the 2015 meeting during a Thursday press conference with Democratic legislative leaders about the Republica

Police in Louisville have confirmed that a body found by railroad workers in some woods Monday is that of a teenager who had been reported missing Jan. 11.  Montevious Goss, 16, was last seen getting in a truck on Dean Drive in Louisville.  The Miss. […]
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Food Truck Frenzy is returning to downtown Kosciusko. The event will be held Tuesday, March 7 in from 4:00 – 7:00 pm. Food trucks of all kinds will be set up in the parking lot in front of the Kosciusko Attala Partnership office. For more […]
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FEBRUARY 2, 1955U.S. Rep. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Credit: Courtesy of U.S. House
Less than a year after the U.S. Supreme Court desegregated public schools, U.S. Rep. Adam Clayton Powell Jr. rose on the House floor.
A Baptist preacher in Harlem, he was one of only three Black Americans in Congress. Since getting elected to Congress a decade earlier, he had introduced many civil rights bills. None had passed.
After introducing legislation to desegregate the armed forces, then-President Harry Trum

After climbing for two weeks, the price of gas in Mississippi has started falling slowly.  AAA says the average price statewide peaked at $3.18 on Saturday after a 30-cent jump.   It’s dropped a couple of cents since then. The auto club says Leake County is […]
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An ice storm warning continues this morning for northwest Mississippi where more freezing rain is expected.  In this part of central Mississippi, one to three inches of rain is forecast and the National Weather Service says there’s a chance of some flash flooding.     […]
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The Kosciusko High School baseball and softball teams will hold Meet the Whippets Monday, Feb. 6. For the baseball team, the junior high scrimmage will begin at 3:30 pm. Following the game, the teams will be introduced and then the high school team will have […]
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Wednesday 2/1/23   5:56 a.m. – Kosciusko Police responded to a call at Harpers Laundry on E 3rd Street for an unknown issue. 7:10 a.m. – Kosciusko Police were asked to assist EMS on a call on Adams Street. 11:04 a.m. – Kosciusko Police helped […]
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Though they haven’t been given the chance to vote on it, a majority of House members want to extend health care coverage for moms on Medicaid from two months to one year, a Mississippi Today survey shows.Mississippi Today is polling all 174 lawmakers on the issue, which health care leaders say would save countless lives across the state that consistently ranks near last for maternal mortality and last for infant mortality.More than a voting majority in both the House and Senate — in

Mississippi Today is polling all 174 lawmakers on a measure to extend health care coverage for moms on Medicaid from two months to one year.Health care leaders say passing the postpartum Medicaid extension bill, as 28 other states have done and several others are considering, would save countless lives across Mississippi, which consistently ranks near last for maternal mortality and last for infant mortality.READ MORE: Pressure grows for lawmakers to pass postpartum Medicaid extensionMore

A winter weather advisory for Carroll and Grenada counties has been discontinued but remains in effect until 6 pm for Humphreys, Leflore, Sharkey and Issaquena counties where light ice accumulations are possible this afternoon.   An ice storm warning continues along and north of a Greenville-Corinth […]
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U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and other Democrats in Washington are urging President Joe Biden to send federal appointments for the U.S. Senate’s approval, regardless of prior consent from senators in the nominees’ respective states.Biden would have to ignore a longstanding tradition called “blue slips” – forms that senators submit to the Senate Judiciary Committee to affirm they’ll vote to approve the president’s candidates for vacancies in their

ALLEN HOWARD, 72, of West, DUI – 1st, ACSO.  Bond $0.   HARLEIGH D HUTCHINSON, 22, of McCool, Shoplifting, ACSO.  Bond $1,000.   DEONTE D JOHNSON, 20, of Carthage, Speeding, Failure to Yield to Blue Lights / Siren, Careless Driving, Possession of Marijuana, CPD.  Bond […]
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A local kicker is headed to Goodman to play football for Holmes Community College. The school announced Wednesday that Dan Lindsay of Central Holmes will join the team next season. Lindsay was named to the 3A All-MAIS team during his senior season, which saw Central […]
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More than 15 bills that would have expanded Medicaid to provide health care coverage to primarily the working poor died on Tuesday night without debate or a vote.No committee chair in either the Senate or House held a hearing on those Medicaid expansion bills. The House Medicaid Committee, where Speaker of the House Philip Gunn assigned all of the his chamber’s expansion bills, did not even meet a single time before the Jan. 31 deadline to consider general bills.READ MORE: ‘What&rsq

In his 48th year of coaching high school basketball, Indianola native Richard Duease has more state championships than he can count on his fingers and toes. Duease discusses why he became a coach, his coaching philosophy and how he almost went into college coaching way back in 1982.Stream all episodes here.
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The Ethel Tigers baseball team has earned a Top 5 preseason ranking. Capital Sports MS ranks the Tigers at Number 5 in its Preseason 1A Baseball Poll. The only teams ranked ahead of the Tigers are Biggersville, West Union, Resurrection, and Taylorsville. In 2022, Ethel […]
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The City of Kosciusko has announced a beginner tennis program for the month of March. Dates for the program are Thursdays from March 9 – April 13. Lessons are for kids ages 6 – 12 and will be held at the Jason Niles Park tennis […]
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Flu levels are lower than low in Mississippi now.  A report from the Centers for Disease Control is classifying the state in the “minimal” category with the State Health Department saying only about three per cent of patients seeing their doctors during the week ending […]
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Mississippi Today is uniting forces with the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting (MCIR) to bring you the best in watchdog and investigative reporting.Jerry Mitchell
Mississippi Today is pleased to announce that MCIR founder and award-winning investigative reporter Jerry Mitchell is joining the Mississippi Today team, as well as investigative reporter Ilyssa Daly. Debbie Skipper, veteran newspaper editor and former Managing Editor at MCIR, joined the Mississippi Today newsroom in Octo

Multiple local baseball players have been named to the Capital Sports 2023 Players to Watch list. The Kosciusko Whippets placed four players on the watchlist. Whippets named to the list include Larson Fancher (infielder/pitcher), Jacob Nunn (infielder/pitcher), Ty Ramage (pitcher/catcher), and Landon Wallace (infielder). The […]
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