2015/04/22 – It always happens—just when a fad arrives in Mississippi, the fad’s progenitors become less enamored of it. Take the so-called “third grade reading gate”—which requires students to pass a literacy test before moving to the next grade—now under way …..
2015/04/21 – Mississippi’s jobless rate dipped in March for the third month in a row, although employer payrolls shrank. The unemployment rate fell to 6.8 percent, down from 7 percent in February and 7.8 percent in March 2014. The number of …..
2015/04/21 – JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Two Mississippi prisoners condemned to death are challenging the legality of the state’s lethal injection procedures. A lawyer for Richard Jordan and Ricky Chase writes in a suit filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in …..
2015/04/21 – On Monday, Baltimore officials announced that six police officers involved in the arrest of Freddie Gray have been suspended with pay after an autopsy’s finding that Gray suffered a severe spinal injury. Freddie Gray, 25, died from severe spinal …..
2015/04/21 – At the same time the State of Mississippi continues fighting the release of details about where it gets drugs used in executions, Mississippi taxpayers will have to compensate people wrongfully convicted and incarcerated, including several who were sentenced to …..
