JACKSON, Miss. (AP) Low-income new mothers in Mississippi will be eligible for a full year of Medicaid health coverage under a bill passed Tuesday by the state Legislature. The bipartisan move is the culmination of a two-year effort to convince a majority of the Republican-controlled House to provide longer postpartum coverage in one of the poorest states in the U.S.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) Mississippi residents might get back the ability to enact public policy through statewide ballot initiatives, but people would be banned from using the process to change abortion laws.
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) Video and dash camera footage provided by the Mississippi Department of Public Safety shows a Black teenager holding a gun when he was fatally shot by police last year in an encounter in a store parking lot.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) The U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday it is investigating possible civil rights violations by a Mississippi sheriff’s department after a drug raid last month left a Black man with a bullet wound to the face.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) The Republican-controlled Mississippi House on Tuesday passed a bill to create a new court district in part of the capital city of Jackson with judges who would be appointed rather than elected.