JACKSON, Miss. (AP) Days of freezing temperatures caused heating and cooking problems in some Mississippi prisons this week, Corrections Commissioner Burl Cain said. A boiler malfunctioned.
MS has new state flag. But pro-Trump Capitol riot shows the past isn t so far away. Isabelle Taft, The Sun Herald
Jan. 9 On Wednesday morning, Mississippi s Senate voted to ratify the state s new flag.
Just hours later, an unidentified man carried the Confederate battle flag into the United States Capitol.
To some Coast legislators and activists who worked to change Mississippi s flag, it was a moment of horror, but also vindication. Though many supporters of the 1894 state flag claim the emblem represents a kind of apolitical Southern heritage, on Wednesday it was carried by a member of a violent mob that invaded the U.S. Capitol in support of a president who counts avowed white nationalists and Ku Klux Klan members among his supporters.