2015/05/18 – With bottom-barrel state funding and limited resources, Mississippi educators will spend the next three months trying to change the fate of more than 5,600 students doomed to repeat the third grade. Nearly 15 percent of public school third graders …..
2015/05/18 – Nine months after police in riot gear dispelled racially charged protests, President Barack Obama is prohibiting the federal government from providing some military-style equipment to local departments and putting stricter controls on other weapons and gear distributed to law …..
2015/05/18 – WASHINGTON — President Obama has banned the sale of some kinds of military equipment to local law enforcement agencies, following widespread criticism of a paramilitary-like response to riots in a St. Louis suburb last August. In doing so, Obama …..
2015/05/18 – The number of federal criminal charges has fallen over the past decade nationally, but the rate of decline in south Mississippi is more than twice that of the nation. According to Justice Department reports, the Southern District of Mississippi …..
2015/05/18 – CLEVELAND – A federal judge must decide whether this Mississippi Delta college town’s school system is an oasis of integration or a glaring example of continued segregation. The court hearing opening today before U.S. District Judge Debra Brown in Greenville …..
