Mississippi Roundup
NYT: Mississippi Man tried six times for same crime; currently on death row
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Curtis Flowers’ story is the subject of a new podcast that’s been downloaded more than two million times
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State gaming proposal confines sports betting to casinos
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The commission could vote on the rules at its June 21 meeting, with betting allowed 30 days later
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Mississippi State to begin accepting common application
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Administration hopes to streamline process, increase number of applications
Deadline to register to vote in Mississippi primaries is Monday
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Primary races are for U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives
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Mississippi looks to Alabama broadband program as a model
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Lawmakers say if pilot program can work in rural Alabama, it can work in Mississippi, too
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Poultry processor to add 300 jobs at West Point facility
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Peco Foods is investing $40 million; pay will be $15 to $17 an hour, plus benefits
Toyota Mississippi adds 400 jobs, expands production
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Toyota announced Thursday the company is investing another $170 million in its Blue Springs plant and hiring another 400 workers, according to The Daily Journal. Groundbreaking for a separate $10 million, 15,000-square-foot visitor and training center, scheduled to open in November 2019, was canceled Thursday because of rain. Read full story here.
A walk through the nation’s first lynching memorial
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The exhibit features 800 rusting columns for the more than 4,000 known African-American victims of racial terror
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Corinth agrees to change how it jails the poor
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Previous practice had been to send defendants who couldn’t immediately pay fines less than $300 to jail
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Restoration of Greenville’s Weinberg House and survey of Jackson’s Midtown top preservation grants
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The Mississippi Department of Archives and History has awarded grants totaling more than $63,000 to 10 preservation projects in Certified Local Government (CLG) communities across the state. Amounts range from $1,250 for the development of an interactive website that interprets Booneville’s historic district to $12,500 to continue the rehabilitation of the Weinberg House in Greenville. Click here for more information and a full list of grantees across the state.
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Ole Miss law grad first Native American to clerk on U.S. Supreme Court
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Toby Young is a 2003 Ole Miss Law School grad
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IRS online filing system experiencing glitches on Tax Day
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Agency won’t punish people if their returns arrive late because of the glitches.
Clarksdale blues museum gets $460,000 boost from NEH grant
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With additional funding, expanded exhibits should debut before the museum’s 40th anniversary
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Lawsuit expands to challenge other Mississippi abortion restrictions
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Challenge to state’s 15-week ban will include dozens of state restrictions already in place
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Hyde-Smith makes history as first female Mississippi senator
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Vice President Mike Pence swears in Gov. Bryant’s pick to replace Sen. Thad Cochran, who retired April 1.