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Luxury cruise ship departs St. Paul, stirs river dreams for passengers, locals

MINNEAPOLIS — Bob Wilson stepped off a bus at St. Paul's Lambert's Landing on Saturday, a native back in his hometown for the maiden voyage of the Viking Mississippi, a 450-foot-long cruise ship and floating symbol of this city's hopes for a riverfront tourism revival.

Tribune News Service

Pilot 'who stole plane and threatened to fly into Walmart store' is arrested

The store in Mississippi was evacuated before Cory Wayne Patterson was arrested

Wales Online

In Jackson, Miss., football goes on despite the water crisis

Football is a way of life in Jackson, Mississippi. So are boil water notices. The latest water crisis has not stopped fans from filling the stands to support a local college team.

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Mississippi capital struggles without running water

Jackson (United States) (AFP) - With an increasingly acute crisis leaving many residents of Mississippi's capital without drinkable water, soldiers in fatigues have been called in to help, using forklifts and diggers to unload huge pallets of bottled water for distribution to those in dire need.

AFP

US life expectancy in decline

The worst decline in a century reveals our for-profit healthcare system for what it really is

Salon

Pilot seeking to crash plane into a Mississippi Walmart lands safely, in custody

Governor Tate Reeves said in a statement that he “thankful the situation has been resolved and that no one was injured.”

The Independent UK

Jim Crow revived in new voting laws

Felon disenfranchisement was a key 1890 "reform" meant to drive Black voters off the rolls. Now it's back

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Watch: Footage shows pilot ‘threatening to crash into Walmart’ in Mississippi

A pilot is threatening to “intentionally to crash into” a local Walmart in Mississippi, local police have said.At approximately 11am UK time (5am US time), officers from the Tupelo Police Department were notified to a possible threat by a pilot.According to officers, the plane, believed to be a King Air…

Evening Standard

Police: Rogue plane lands, pilot in custody after threatening to hit Mississippi Walmart

Police said the pilot threatened to “intentionally crash into Wal-Mart."

Axios

Police: Plane circling Mississippi city threatens to crash

Police say the pilot of a small airplane has been circling over Tupelo and other parts of northeast Mississippi and had threatened to crash the aircraft into a Walmart store

The Independent UK

Mississippi: Man charged after ‘stealing plane and threatening to crash into Walmart’

The man faces charges of grand larceny and terroristic threats

Evening Standard

Pilot lands plane after threatening to crash into Mississippi Walmart – report

Airport worker who knew how to take off but not land is in police custody, report says

The Guardian - US

The pilot who threatened to crash into a Mississippi Walmart has landed safely

The pilot who threatened to crash a small plane into a Walmart in Tupelo, Miss., was taken into custody, local authorities said.

WEKU

Mississippi Walmart evacuated after pilot threatens to ‘intentionally crash’ into it

The pilot later landed safely, injuring no one, and was taken into police custody.

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Jackson is a current Hurricane Katrina

Like Hurricane Katrina and Flint, Michigan, systemic racism fueled Jackson’s water crisis

The Independent UK

NFL hall-of-famer Brett Favre questioned by FBI in $70m Mississippi welfare scandal

A defendant in a Mississippi welfare fraud case had previously said that she funnelled $1.1m in welfare money to the former NFL star at the direction of former Gov Phil Bryant

The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: Mississippi capital's water woes are extensive

Mississippi's capital city is struggling with its water system

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Mississippi capital’s water woes persist as aid trickles in

Jackson residents are lining up at distribution points to get bottled water after flooding spurred crisis this week.

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The Independent UK

NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week

The Independent UK

Biden: Mississippi governor 'has to act' on Jackson water

President Joe Biden says his administration has offered Mississippi “every single thing available” to address the water crisis that has gripped the state’s capital

Tribune News Service

Mississippi water crisis previews a wetter, hotter US future

The water crisis unfolding in Jackson, Mississippi, was decades in the making: the culmination of crumbling infrastructure, systemic racism and more extreme weather. It’s also a stark warning of trouble to come as climate change piles new stress onto the essential services Americans rely on every day.

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Brett Favre questioned by FBI in Mississippi welfare fraud scandal

Brett Favre has been a central figure in a state and federal investigation regarding the misappropriation of millions of dollars in Mississippi welfare funds.

The Independent UK

Mississippi capital's water disaster developed over decades

For at least the third time in a dozen years, portable toilets are parked outside the ornate Mississippi Capitol because Jackson’s water system is in crisis

AFP

Frustrations mount in southern US city without running water

Washington (AFP) - The 150,000 residents of Jackson, the capital of the southern US state of Mississippi, endured a fourth straight day without clean running water Thursday, with authorities urging those who still had supplies to shower with their mouths closed.

The Guardian - US

‘All of a sudden it’s undrinkable’: why an entire US city has no clean water

Jackson, Mississippi, lost access to safe running water after flooding – but it’s the capstone to years of problems with race a possible factor

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