What happened to Nolan Xavier Wells?

There are many unanswered questions that remain after 18-year-old Nolan Xavier Wells from Ocean Springs was last seen on the Fourth of July and his body found two days later off Horn Island.

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Judge orders five-day water restoration at south Jackson apartments - Mississippi Today

A federal judge on Friday ordered water to be turned back on for five days at a south Jackson apartment complex where the utility company shut it off July 23 because the complex owner has $422,000 of ...

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Son like father: Vernon Dahmer Jr. was a patriot

Column: Vernon Dahmer Jr., the son of a voting rights maryr, was, like his father, a patriot.

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Lawmaker probing Mississippi’s prisons finds inmates suffering from treatable diseases as corrections asks for more money

'When they beg me for supplies because they make them reuse colostomy bags over and over that don’t fit, when they are bowel and bladder incontinent and they don’t provide diapers to them it is hard for me to hear that (MDOC) feels that they provide adequate care.' -- House Corrections Chairwoman Becky Currie

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Danish man living in Mississippi detained by ICE at naturalization meeting

A Danish man living in Mississippi for a dozen years has been imprisoned in Louisiana for more than a month after ICE officers took him into custody at a meeting to become a naturalized U.S. citizen, ...

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AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists

A federal judge has ordered the White House to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events.

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Robert Clark, Mississippi's first Black lawmaker after Civil Rights era, dies at 96

Mississippi’s first Black lawmaker of the 20th century died Tuesday. Robert G. Clark's son and successor, state Rep.

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Women represent half of the US. But they sometimes lack clout in budget and tax talks

Women represent half of the U.S. population. But it’s still rare in some states for female lawmakers to have leading roles in budget matters.

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Mississippi No Longer Leads Nation in Childhood Vaccines

Mississippi no longer leads the nation in childhood vaccines, falling to third place after a judge ordered the state to allow religious exemptions.

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Supreme Court leaves in place Mississippi’s voting ban for people convicted of some crimes

The Supreme Court has left in place Mississippi’s Jim Crow-era practice of removing voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies, including nonviolent crimes such as forgery and timber thef...

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Mississippi should stop celebrating Robert E. Lee

Column: Today, Mississippi officially commemorates both Robert E. Lee and Martin Luther King Jr. It's beyond time the state stops celebrating Lee, a Confederate who chose treason and human bondage ove...

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State Rep. Steve Holland: 'Gulf of America' bill was a joke

By Jeff Amy/The Associated Press

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Civil rights icon James Meredith is honored in his Mississippi hometown

A new historical marker has been unveiled in the hometown of civil rights icon James Meredith. He is a Black man who fought white supremacy by integrating the University of Mississippi in 1962.

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San Francisco names street for Associated Press photographer who captured the iconic Iwo Jima photo

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A photojournalist who captured one of the most enduring images of World War II — the U.S. Marines raising the flag on the Japanese

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Judge declares mistrial after jury deadlocks over killing of gay University of Mississippi student

A judge has declared a mistrial in the killing of a University of Mississippi student who was prominent in the local LGBTQ+ community.

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Jury considers charges against man in killing of Ole Miss student

Jurors are deliberating in the trial of a man charged with killing a University of Mississippi student who was well-known in the local LGBTQ+ community.

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Man on trial in Ole Miss student's death lied to investigators, police chief says

Police became convinced they were investigating a crime rather than a voluntarily missing person two weeks after a University of Mississippi student disappeared.

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Should a Student Reporter Face Prosecution for Embedding with Protesters?

Dilan Gohill won an award for his work at the Stanford Daily, but his coverage of campus protests has set university officials against him.

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Clarke Reed, who helped Gerald Ford win the 1976 Republican nomination, has died at 96

Clarke Reed, a Mississippi businessman who helped build the Republican Party across the South, has died.

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Man on trial in the killing of an Ole Miss student gave conflicting information, police say

The man on trial in the killing of University of Mississippi student Jimmie “Jay” Lee gave conflicting information to police about how well he and Lee knew each other.

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State Sen. Jenifer Branning wins a Mississippi Supreme Court seat

State Sen. Jenifer Branning has won a seat on the Mississippi Supreme Court, defeating Justice Jim Kitchens.

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The NAACP ends its challenge over Mississippi creating a new court in majority-Black capital city

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The NAACP is ending its lawsuit that challenged a decision by the majority-white and Republican-run Mississippi Legislature to create a new state court in Jackson, the capital ci...

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An Ole Miss student exchanged messages with the man now on trial in his killing, police say

In the final hours before University of Mississippi student Jimmy “Jay” Lee disappeared, sexually explicit Snapchat messages were exchanged between his account and the account of the man now on trial ...

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