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'This is a really big deal' -- some teachers left out of pay raise due to administrative error 0 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 1 1231

Grocery tax unpopular, but cutting it hasn't been winner for politicians 0 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1135

A ship under arrest? Warrant issued after crash caused over $40 million in damage, Ingalls says 1 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 1 1374

Mississippi Approves License Plates With New State Flag Design 3 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 2 1435

Mississippi governor signs $1,500 pay raise for teachers 1 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 1 1113

Hood Takes Heat for Blackface Photos, Says Leave Trans Rights Up to Schools 1 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 1 1119

As leaders claim economic boom times, some state workers decry 3% raise as 'a half a tank of gas' 0 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 1 1084

No, they're not crazy. But they did just buy a bankrupt hospital in rural Mississippi. 0 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 2 1176

Former Mississippi sheriff gets 6 years in prison over drug dealer bribes 0 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1190

This message was self-deleted by its author 0 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1138

Mississippi man pleads guilty to federal hate crime for cross burning 1 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 3 1494

Mississippi teacher group eyeing protest asks about walkout 0 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 1 1236

Mississippi levels fraud charge at Entergy, argues it have bought cheaper power 0 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1249

Mississippi Senate Approves New Map to Boost Black Voting Power 5 TexasTowelie Mar 2019 Mar 2019 9 1687

Credit union VP who admitted taking $350K was accused at another Coast bank years earlier 1 TexasTowelie Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1389

'Nothing's going to be the same.' A $200M plan for former Margaritaville site in East Biloxi 0 TexasTowelie Mar 2019 Mar 2019 0 1332

$400M pain cream fraud: Drug rep headed to prison. And his crime will cost him $2.2M 1 TexasTowelie Mar 2019 Mar 2019 14 2405

Mississippi Closes More Bridges After Counties Don't Act 3 TexasTowelie Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1407

Speaker: Lawmakers Eye $1,000 Raise for Mississippi Teachers 0 TexasTowelie Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1117

Navy awards $1.47B contract for ship to Mississippi shipyard 0 TexasTowelie Mar 2019 Mar 2019 0 1326

Man Pleads Guilty To Health Care Fraud, Money Laundering And Tax Evasion Charges For Role in $200M 0 TexasTowelie Mar 2019 Mar 2019 2 1238

Elizabeth Warren to hold Mississippi town hall moderated by Jake Tapper at Jackson State 1 Tactical Peek Mar 2019 Mar 2019 2 1702

Ole Miss student government votes to remove Confederate monuments from campus 1 TexasTowelie Mar 2019 Mar 2019 4 1313

Hoping everyone is okay, tornado! 0 littlemissmartypants Feb 2019 Feb 2019 6 1365

Pro-Confederate Groups Planning Rally at the University of Mississippi 4 TexasTowelie Feb 2019 Feb 2019 1 1761

'The money's used up:' Raises unlikely for state workers, senator says 0 TexasTowelie Feb 2019 Feb 2019 0 1385

Study finds 31 Mississippi rural hospitals at high risk of closure 1 TexasTowelie Feb 2019 Feb 2019 1 1275

Legislative Update: Tort Reform, Heartbeat Bills, Teacher Pay Moves Forward 0 TexasTowelie Feb 2019 Feb 2019 1 1173

Mississippi sues federal government over river flooding 1 TexasTowelie Feb 2019 Feb 2019 1 1471

Mississippi lieutenant governor was in fraternity that hosted racist party 1 RandySF Feb 2019 Feb 2019 1 1720

Mississippi Continued...

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State Senate bills seek to allow religious, philosophical exemptions for vaccinating children 3 TexasTowelie Feb 2019 Feb 2019 1 1545

Proposal Would Make Mississippi Voter ID Law Stricter 1 TexasTowelie Feb 2019 Feb 2019 1 1382

House Bill Allows Retired Teachers to Teach and Receive Pension 0 TexasTowelie Feb 2019 Feb 2019 1 1232

Bill proposes $1,000 increase in Mississippi teacher pay 1 TexasTowelie Feb 2019 Feb 2019 1 1267

Mississippi lawmakers push to amend state law on hate crimes to protect LGBT 0 TexasTowelie Feb 2019 Feb 2019 0 1160

Nissan to Cut Up to 700 Contract Workers in Mississippi 1 TexasTowelie Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 1469

Mississippi May Mandate Ten Commandments and Pledges to State, U.S. Flags in Schools 5 TexasTowelie Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 1660

Mississippi Leaders Still 'Honoring' Racists, After All These Years 1 TexasTowelie Jan 2019 Jan 2019 3 1275

MDOC, recently plagued by corruption, wants to be allowed more secrecy 0 TexasTowelie Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 1367

Webster County Sheriff pleads not guilty to felonies, put on house arrest 0 TexasTowelie Jan 2019 Jan 2019 1 1220

Powerful legislative seats in question following DUI arrests 0 TexasTowelie Jan 2019 Jan 2019 3 1603

Running list: Declared, rumored 2019 candidates for statewide office 0 TexasTowelie Jan 2019 Jan 2019 1 1260

Ole Miss to return most of $402,100 donated by businessman sentenced in $100M Ponzi scheme 0 TexasTowelie Jan 2019 Jan 2019 0 1249

FEC Filings: Hyde-Smith Returned Racist's Donation, But Not $50,000 to Corporations 0 TexasTowelie Jan 2019 Jan 2019 0 1300

All clear given after portion of Walnut Grove evacuated due to major gas leak 0 TexasTowelie Jan 2019 Jan 2019 1 1350

Why an insurance policy change has some ER doctors worried in Mississippi 1 TexasTowelie Dec 2018 Dec 2018 2 2140

Mississippi senator's arrest could create leadership fight 1 TexasTowelie Dec 2018 Dec 2018 5 1870

Mississippi Appeal Seeks To Revive 15-Week Abortion Ban 0 TexasTowelie Dec 2018 Dec 2018 0 1378

Companies Asked a Mississippi Senator to Refund Donations. They Are Still Waiting. 3 TexasTowelie Dec 2018 Dec 2018 2 1410

Teacher pay raises uncertain in legislative budget plan 0 TexasTowelie Dec 2018 Dec 2018 1 1278

Man gets 3 years for identity theft of veteran and benefits 0 TexasTowelie Dec 2018 Dec 2018 2 1247

Auditor demands more than $200,000 from Lincoln County chancery clerk 0 TexasTowelie Dec 2018 Dec 2018 1 1296

Foster Claims 'Third Party' Offered $1 Million to Exit Governor's Race 0 TexasTowelie Dec 2018 Dec 2018 2 1239

Clinton pharmacist will head to prison in compound pharmacy scheme 6 TexasTowelie Nov 2018 Nov 2018 5 2300

Two more real-estate investors admit cheating at South Mississippi foreclosure auctions 0 TexasTowelie Nov 2018 Nov 2018 3 1267

Mississippi Rhodes Scholar Jaz Brisack shares passion for labor organizing in the South 0 TexasTowelie Nov 2018 Nov 2018 0 1175

Confederate flag on civil rights hero's grave gets widow's pardon 0 TexasTowelie Nov 2018 Nov 2018 0 1355

Mike Espy Came Closer to Senate Seat Than Any Dem Since 1982 1 TexasTowelie Nov 2018 Nov 2018 6 1769

Advocates Say Increased Taxes on Cigarettes Will Save Lives and Money in Mississippi 1 TexasTowelie Nov 2018 Nov 2018 0 1376

End Near for Racist Politics in Mississippi? 0 TexasTowelie Nov 2018 Nov 2018 0 1233

Mississippi Continued...

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Trump just gave a shout out to Mike Hurst, who is the United States Attorney 2 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2018 Nov 2018 9 2263

Mississippi Towns Spelled Out Phonetically in their Correct Pronunciations for the Media 11 Recursion Sep 2013 Nov 2018 3 78009

GOP Senate candidate Cindy Hyde-Smith, who made 'lynching' joke, seen wearing Confederate gear 1 sandensea Nov 2018 Nov 2018 0 1604

2 Weeks After Midterms Trump Announces He's Already Hitting Campaign Trail Again - to Help MS Racist 4 TexasTowelie Nov 2018 Nov 2018 0 1904

White Mississippi senator in runoff jokes about 'public hanging' 4 TexasTowelie Nov 2018 Nov 2018 1 1684

URGENT---Last Chance to Check Online & Make Sure Your Early Ballot Vote Has Been Counted! 0 PandoraAwakened Nov 2018 Nov 2018 0 959

Hyde-Smith says she's open to debating Espy in Senate runoff 0 TexasTowelie Oct 2018 Oct 2018 0 1277

Jackson NAACP head pulled over, threatened for Forest Hill comments, he says 0 TexasTowelie Oct 2018 Oct 2018 6 1598

Free from federal oversight, 5 percent of Mississippi polling locations have closed since 2013 0 TexasTowelie Oct 2018 Oct 2018 2 1186

GOP Mega-Donor Implicated in Russia Probe Gives McDaniel $500,000 Boost 0 TexasTowelie Oct 2018 Oct 2018 1 1224

Band halftime program -- police held at gunpoint -- draws ire 0 TexasTowelie Oct 2018 Oct 2018 1 1970

Two Officers Dead in Mississippi Town 0 TexasTowelie Sep 2018 Sep 2018 0 1768

Nurse practitioner sentenced to 3 years for role in $400M compound pharmacy scheme 2 TexasTowelie Sep 2018 Sep 2018 2 1435

Meridian restaurant owners harbored, employed undocumented workers 0 TexasTowelie Sep 2018 Sep 2018 1 1226

Mike Espy Pulls out of U.S. Senate Debate in Jackson, Citing 'Hypocrisy' 1 TexasTowelie Sep 2018 Sep 2018 2 1583

Your child has type 1 diabetes, and the school won't enroll her 0 TexasTowelie Sep 2018 Sep 2018 0 1304

Mississippi Public Broadcasting Will Not Broadcast Planned U.S. Senate Debate in October 0 TexasTowelie Sep 2018 Sep 2018 1 1284

Rep. Greg Snowden arrested for refusal to take DUI test after getting into wreck 2 TexasTowelie Sep 2018 Sep 2018 4 1965

Fetch The Smelling Salts-- There Is Still Racism In Mississippi Politics 0 TexasTowelie Sep 2018 Sep 2018 0 1525

Chris McDaniel was a rising GOP star. Now he's fighting for political survival. 2 TexasTowelie Sep 2018 Sep 2018 3 1981

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