Elected coroners lacking needed medical training make life and death decisions
SCOTT COUNTY, Kentucky – Storing guns stolen from police headquarters in the basement of his government building.
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Crime labs’ funding, backlogs reach critical level
Autopsy reports are backed up five years, and now a former judge faces the task of cleaning up this mess. Can he?
Jackson water crisis flows from a century of poverty, neglect and racism
More than a century before failing infrastructure left Jackson, Mississippi, without running water this summer, thousands of the capital city's residents gathered in a park downtown to celebrate the new water filtration plant that promised to turn the muddy liquid flowing into people’s taps into “clean, pure water.”
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Louisiana tribe gets $5 million to prepare for more floods, rising seas
A Louisiana tribe under threat from flooding, storms and rising seas will receive a federal grant aimed at helping Native American communities adapt to climate change or move to safer ground.
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Making amends: Louisiana governor apologizes to protesters, families of slain students
BATON ROUGE—Gov. John Bel Edwards apologized Wednesday on behalf of the state to former Southern University protest leaders and the families of two Southern students who were killed by an unidentified sheriff’s deputy 50 years ago.
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Fired Lexington police chief exposed in racist recording had a checkered past in law enforcement
Throughout his career in law enforcement, Sam Dobbins patrolled the streets of Mississippi with impunity, despite a history of racist remarks and policing, a reputation for violence and allegations he nearly beat a man to death.
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Welfare defendant alleges Gov. Phil Bryant used federal funds to hurt political rival
A defendant in the welfare civil case alleged through her attorney that during the competitive 2019 governor’s race between Republican Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves and Democratic Attorney General Jim Hood, term-limited GOP Gov. Phil Bryant threatened to cut state welfare funding to her nonprofit because it was employing Hood’s wife.
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Formed in the wake of disappearing newsrooms, the Mississippi Center for Investigating Reporting has begun to fill that news void, informing and educating the public through its widespread network. Led by veteran journalists Jerry Mitchell and Debbie Skipper, the Center is shining a light into the darkness, letting taxpayers know how their government is working and how their tax dollars are being spent. The Center is exposing injustices and exploring cold cases where victims' families have been denied justice. As a result of its powerful reporting, the Center is inspiring reform where it is desperately needed.