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TERRY, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed while responding to a call outside the state’s capital city of Jackson, authorities said. Deputy Martin Shields ...

Mississippi is the state with the highest rate of cervical cancer deaths in the United States. Black women in Mississippi are almost 1.5 times as likely to die of the disease as white women living ...

The first 14 states that restricted abortion after the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade in June 2022 delivered 22,181 ...

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A Mississippi state judge ordered a newspaper to remove an editorial criticizing city officials from its website, a move that ...

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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — After Mississippi’s lieutenant governor collapsed on the floor of the state Senate Wednesday, he released a statement saying he had been dehydrated. Video from the Senate ...

The owner of The Clarksdale Press Register said he planned to challenge a judge’s order against an editorial that criticized ...

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