2015/05/10 – On June 20, it will be three years since Mississippi’s last execution. On that date in 2012, Gary Carl Simmons Jr., a former grocery store butcher, was executed for dismembering a man during a 1996 attack in which he …..
2015/05/08 – The Mississippi Department of Education on Friday released statewide results of the third-grade reading assessment, showing how many students from each school face retention due to the state’s new Literacy-Based Promotion Act. See the results for each elementary school below. …..
2015/05/08 – Robert Henry Rice, the last of 10 young white defendants in a hate crime conspiracy case that resulted in the death of James Craig Anderson, was sentenced to 10 years behind bars in federal court on Friday. Rice was …..
2015/05/07 – The state Supreme Court on Thursday approved “the Legislature’s” motion to expedite an appeal of a lower court’s actions on a school funding initiative on November’s statewide ballots. The court agreed to a request from Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves …..
2015/05/07 – Weapons at school. Assaults on teachers. Thefts. Lack of response and support from administrators. These are a few accounts from Jackson Public Schools teachers and employees who anonymously shared their stories about working in the district in a report …..
