July 21, 2021 Wicker, Manchin vow support for Hyde Amendment, calling it a 'decades-long' compromise Senators crossed the aisle in a letter to Senate Appropriations Committee chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and ranking member Richard Shelby, R-Ala., expressing “support for the Hyde Amendment.”
July 20, 2021 Oklahoma woman raped in public Mississippi bathroom, husband helps catch suspect A Mississippi man allegedly attacked, robbed and raped an Oklahoma woman in a public restroom at a high-end an outlet mall Monday, according to investigators.
July 15, 2021 Over 90% of Mississippi's COVID-19 cases among unvaccinated people, gov warns Mississippi’s surge in new coronavirus cases primarily due to the Delta variant is hitting unvaccinated populations hardest, the state’s governor said during a press conference Wednesday.
July 14, 2021 Mississippi reports 7 kids in ICU, 2 on life support amid Delta surge Mississippi’s top health official said Tuesday the state has seven children in the intensive care unit due to COVID-19, including two who are on life support.
July 6, 2021 Alabama closes COVID vaccine sites as state demand plateaus According to the Biden administration, the holiday was supposed to represent independence from the virus but some states have less than 50% of their population vaccinated.
June 29, 2021 Mississippi health officials urge precaution ahead of July 4 amid Delta variant spread Mississippi health officials on Tuesday advised residents take their Fourth of July celebrations outdoors amid increasing COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations linked to the highly transmissible Delta variant in unvaccinated individuals.
June 29, 2021 NASA studies Louisiana delta system in effort to combat global climate change Erosion, sinking land and sea rise from climate change have killed the Louisiana woods where a 41-year-old Native American chief played as a child. Not far away in the Mississippi River delta system, middle-school students can stand on islands that emerged the year they were born.
June 25, 2021 Atheists sue over ‘In God We Trust’ on Mississippi license plates A group of atheists filed a lawsuit Tuesday looking to force Mississippi to offer a no-fee license plate option without the phrase “In God We Trust.”
June 19, 2021 Tropical Storm Claudette ravages Gulf Coast, tracking northeast Tropical Storm Claudette formed early Saturday morning and was tracked moving along the Gulf Coast before it made landfall,
June 18, 2021 Periodical cicadas may emerge more frequently: report The periodical cicadas currently singing across the eastern U.S. may emerge more frequently due to alterations in the insects' life cycles, according to researchers.
