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304                                <h4 style="font-size:18pt;padding-top:5px; padding-bottom:5px;"><a href="/news/2022/may/31/women-founded-nonprofit-acquires-jackson-free-pres/">Women-Founded Nonprofit Acquires Jackson Free Press Assets</a></h4><a href="/news/2022/may/31/women-founded-nonprofit-acquires-jackson-free-pres/"><img src="https://jacksonfreepress.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2022/05/31/Screenshot_2022-05-31_at_17-10-17_Follow-MFP_Staff-photos-banner-1024x683.png_PNG_Image_1024__683_pixels_r335x200.png?de8fe54e51d39a51b0570b4d66297fdc85fe1146" alt="" style="float:left;margin-right:5px;"></a>
305                                <p>The Mississippi Journalism and Education Group board of directors is proud to announce that it recently completed the acquisition of the journalism assets of the Jackson Free Press.</p>
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348                                <p>Jackson State University President Thomas K. Hudson and other JSU faculty recently held a ceremony to unveil the Brigadier General Robert Crear CSET atrium on the JSU campus.</p>
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391                                <p>John Davis, a former Mississippi Department of Human Services director, has been indicted on 20 additional felony charges tied to allegations that he participated in misusing money that was supposed to help some of the poorest people in the nation, including some spent to send a former pro wrestler to …</p>
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433                                <h4 style="font-size:18pt;padding-top:5px; padding-bottom:5px;"><a href="/news/2022/apr/21/education-company-leaders-plead-guilty-federal-cha/">Education Company Leaders Plead Guilty to Federal Charges</a></h4><a href="/news/2022/apr/21/education-company-leaders-plead-guilty-federal-cha/"><img src="https://jacksonfreepress.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2022/04/21/judge-gavel_Photo-by-Bill-Oxford-on-Unsplash_web_r335x200.jpg?de8fe54e51d39a51b0570b4d66297fdc85fe1146" alt="" style="float:left;margin-right:5px;"></a>
434                                <p>Nancy New and Zachary New, a mother and son who ran a for-profit education company, have pleaded guilty to improperly obtaining millions of dollars from the Mississippi Department of Education by submitting false documents about schools they operated.</p>
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479                                <h4 style="font-size:18pt;padding-top:5px; padding-bottom:5px;"><a href="/news/2022/apr/19/jackson-police-are-short-staffed-assistant-chief-s/">Jackson Police Are Short-Staffed, Assistant Chief Says</a></h4><a href="/news/2022/apr/19/jackson-police-are-short-staffed-assistant-chief-s/"><img src="https://jacksonfreepress.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2022/04/19/Asst.ChiefWade-courtesy_city_of_jackson-web_r335x200.jpg?de8fe54e51d39a51b0570b4d66297fdc85fe1146" alt="" style="float:left;margin-right:5px;"></a>
480                                <p>An assistant chief says the police department in Mississippi&#x27;s largest city is short-staffed, and recruitment and retention are big challenges.</p>
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522                                <h4 style="font-size:18pt;padding-top:5px; padding-bottom:5px;"><a href="/news/2022/apr/15/amid-false-2020-claims-gop-states-eye-voting-syste/">Amid False 2020 Claims, GOP States Eye Voting System Upgrade</a></h4><a href="/news/2022/apr/15/amid-false-2020-claims-gop-states-eye-voting-syste/"><img src="https://jacksonfreepress.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2022/04/15/Jeff_Yarbro_courtesy_state_of_TN-web_r335x200.jpg?de8fe54e51d39a51b0570b4d66297fdc85fe1146" alt="" style="float:left;margin-right:5px;"></a>
523                                <p>For years, Tennessee Democratic Senate Minority Leader Jeff Yarbro’s call to require the state’s voting infrastructure to include a paper record of each ballot cast has been batted down in the Republican-dominated Legislature.</p>
524                                <span class="byline">By Jonathan Mattise and Christina A. Cassidy, Associated Press</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;
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572                                <h4 style="font-size:18pt;padding-top:5px; padding-bottom:5px;"><a href="/news/2022/apr/14/federal-judge-mississippi-jail-must-make-several-c/">Federal Judge: Mississippi Jail Must Make Several Changes</a></h4><a href="/news/2022/apr/14/federal-judge-mississippi-jail-must-make-several-c/"><img src="https://jacksonfreepress.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2022/04/14/Raymond_Detention_Center_file_photo_Ik_web_r335x200.jpg?de8fe54e51d39a51b0570b4d66297fdc85fe1146" alt="" style="float:left;margin-right:5px;"></a>
573                                <p>A federal judge has ordered Hinds County leaders to implement several changes at the Raymond Detention Center.</p>
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623                                <p>Mississippi is creating a statewide office to spend millions of federal dollars for broadband internet development — an effort that c
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666                                <p>Jackson State University recently announced that Thasunda Brown Duckett and Homer Wilkes will hold presentations during the university&#x27;s 2022 commencement exercises.</p>
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716                                <p>The Mississippi Department of Archives and History is allowing the public to have access to additional papers from the late author Eudora Welty, including letters written by members of her family.</p>
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759                                <p>Oakdale Elementary students organized a Make-A-Wish fundraiser in honor of Ariel Hurley, a kindergartner at Oakdale and a recipient of the foundation.</p>
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802                                <p>Madison/Rankin County Circuit Court Judge Dewey Arthur sentenced 34-year-old Carlos Dominique Allen and 42-year-old Torrey Powell to 156 years, collectively, for drug offenses on March 28, 2022.</p>
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848                                <p>Mississippi will expand a work release program for nonviolent inmates from one county to three counties.</p>
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894                                <p>Pulitzer Prize winning author Alice Walker has been tapped to speak at this year&#x27;s Mississippi Book Festival.</p>
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937                                <p>Mississippi native Jay Branch has organized the inaugural Kids Fest Jackson event taking place in Jackson, Miss., on S
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1213
1214            Ellington.Cookies.set_cookie('template_preference', 'mobile');
1215
1216               window.location.href = domain.replace('www', 'm') + window.location.pathname;
1217
1218
1219          }
1220
1221        } else if (cookie_value == 'mobile' || cookie_value == 'tablet') {
1222
1223               window.location.href = domain.replace('www', 'm') + window.location.pathname;
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1225
1226        }
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1228  </script>
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1229
1230<script src="https://my.hellobar.com/1b1209fae4614f70b9e839d5864cadd2c8ffae91.js" type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" async="async"></script>
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1231
1232<script type="module" src="https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js/v31edd6df95cf4e85bb4c19e7a9bdbcba1788362987495" integrity="sha512-iIg7k2xntmwu6/uSb5tpc/hySgZc4eoL31yB29W6tJFo2akwjPWcEqnCEdJvGexCL0KEQwVYv5BlowfhVz26hg==" data-cf-beacon='{"version":"2024.11.0","token":"5ae53be0d97d4e39a35e46a4e8172e45","r":1,"spa":2}' crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
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1233</body>
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