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A judge may rule on Wyoming's abortion laws, including the first explicit US ban on abortion pills

A judge is set to decide whether to strike down, affirm or hold a trial over Wyoming's abortion bans

The Independent UK

Mississippi Cops Buried a Missing Man. His Family Only Found Out When NBC News Revealed It.

An NBC investigation revealed how Jackson, Mississippi, police keep burying people in pauper's graves after failing to inform their families about their deaths.

Reason

Battle over creating new court centers on equality in Mississippi's majority-Black capital city

Constitutional rights are at the center of a legal fight over a state-run court in part of Mississippi’s majority-Black capital city of Jackson

The Independent UK

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Mississippi man killed by police SUV receives funeral months after first burial in paupers' cemetery

A Mississippi man who was struck and killed by a police SUV in March has now received a funeral and burial attended by family and friends

The Independent UK

Mississippi's capital city is considering a unique plan to slash water rates for poor people

The manager of the long-troubled water system in Missisisppi’s capital city has proposed a slight rate increase

The Independent UK

FedEx Cup Fall update: Who’s up, who’s down with one PGA Tour event to go

The RSM Classic is the final event of the season and the last chance for players to make their move for 2024.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Ballot shortages created democracy problems during Mississippi governor's election

People in Mississippi's largest county are demanding answers about why some polling places ran out of ballots and voters had to wait for them to be replenished on election day.

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2023 World Wide Technology Championship odds and picks to win

Here are four picks for this week's event south of the border.

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Lawyer wants federal probe of why Mississippi police waited months to tell a mom her son was killed

A civil rights attorney says he will ask the U.S. Justice Department to investigate why authorities in Jackson, Mississippi, waited months to tell a woman that her son had been struck and killed by a police SUV driven by an off-duty officer

The Independent UK

These PGA Tour players are in position to earn a spot in first two signature events of 2024

It's a race to finish 51-60.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Mississippi Police Killed Her Son, Then Buried Him in a Pauper's Grave Without Telling Her

Even though Jackson, Mississippi, police knew they had killed 37-year-old Dexter Wade, they didn't inform his mother and allowed him to be buried in a penal farm.

Reason

Jackson State’s Football Coach Makes His Thoughts on Deion Sanders’s Tenure Very Clear

The Tigers' first-year boss spoke candidly about how the Colorado coach changed his program.

Sports Illustrated

Top 125 bubble watch: Which PGA Tour players are on the verge of losing their cards?

Some golfers are in danger of losing their status.

USA Today Sports Media Group

What's changed — and what hasn't — a year after Mississippi capital's water crisis?

A federal judge turned to Ted Henifin after infrastructure breakdowns in Mississippi’s capital city caused residents to go days and weeks without safe water last year

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Endycott makes his PGA move up to second in Mississippi

Aussie Harrison Endycott has fired himself into contention at the PGA Tour event in Jackson, carding a 65 to trail leader Ben Griffin by two after 36 holes.

USA Today Sports Media Group

8 notable names who missed the cut at 2023 Sanderson Farms Championship, including the defending champion

These players are packing their bags early.

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Photos: 2023 Sanderson Farms Championship at The Country Club of Jackson

Here are some of the best images from the week in Jackson.

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2023 Sanderson Farms Championship odds, course history and picks to win

Beau Hossler has found his game over his last six starts.

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The Independent UK

Mississippi activists ask to join water lawsuit and criticize Black judge's comments on race

Activists in Mississippi’s majority-Black capital city are trying to join a federal lawsuit against the city for violating standards for clean drinking water

The Independent UK

Hollis Watkins, who was jailed multiple times for challenging segregation in Mississippi, dies at 82

Longtime Mississippi civil rights activist Hollis Watkins has died

Salon

Unearthing racism's Christian roots

A shooting in Jacksonville is the latest example of overt, growing, and gruesome anti-Black violence

The Independent UK

Hopeful signs of an economic 'soft landing' emerge in Jackson Hole as Fed meets with world watching

Business these days in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, is still good — just not as robust as it was after the U.S. economy roared out of the pandemic recession

The Independent UK

Federal judge orders utility to turn over customer information amid reports of improper water use

A federal judge has ordered Mississippi’s largest electric utility to turn over information on customers in and around the capital city who might be using water without paying for it

The Guardian - US

Alyssa Nichols: the trailblazing US referee chasing her World Cup ‘dream’

The youngest Black woman to earn a Fifa referee badge, the Mississippi native, Jackson State alumna and proud Delta is breaking down barriers one assignment at a time

The Independent UK

Mississippi judge declares mistrial for two white men charged with shooting at Black FedEx worker

FedEx driver D’Monterrio Gibson was delivering packages in Brookhaven, a town about 55 miles south of Jackson, when father and son duo Gregory Case and Brandon Case chased him in a pickup truck and opened fire

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