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Students return to campus amid water crisis in Jackson

Students in Mississippi’s capital were able to return to class for the first time in a week with assurances that the toilets and sinks in their buildings would finally work

The Independent UK

67 years after Emmett Till’s Chicago funeral, his best friend remembers him

CHICAGO — When the Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. thinks of Emmett Till, he sees him running toward home plate with the grace of a lumbering Pullman freight train. Emmett’s slow speed lost their team a softball game, he remembers.

Chicago Tribune

Editorial: A Jim Crow law was designed to disenfranchise Blacks. A court just upheld it

What’s wrong with this picture? A federal appeals court in Mississippi, in recently considering whether to overturn an 1890 law that makes it almost impossible for ex-convicts to ever vote again, wrote that the law was “steeped in racism” from its very inception. Then that same court upheld the law…

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Mississippi pastor confessed to killing a father - after pretending to help family look for him, daughter says

James Eric Crisp walked into the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office last week and admitted to killing 48-year-old Roger Loyd Taylor in 2019. Taylor’s daughter tells Andrea Blanco why she doesn’t believe Crisp’s claims of being ‘reformed’ by becoming a minister after the murder

The Independent UK

Residents in Mississippi's capital city get "positive" news as water begins flowing again

The water crisis has upended life for the city of nearly 150,000 people.

Axios

Jackson mayor: residents face ‘longer road ahead’ before safe water is restored

Precariousness of water system remains before services are fully restored after infrastructure failure, Chokwe Antar Lumumba says

The Guardian - US

Officials: Miss. capital city close to normal water pressure

Mississippi's capital has taken a step closer toward restoring normal water service to tens of thousands of customers

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Some states could tax Biden's student loan debt relief

President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness plan could lift crushing debt burdens from millions of borrowers

The Independent UK

Mississippi capital's Black business owners decry water woes

Black business owners in Mississippi’s capital say the city’s broken water system poses dire costs for their bottom lines

The Independent UK

Mississippi Walmart evacuated after pilot threatens to ‘intentionally crash’ into it

The pilot later landed safely, injuring no one, and was taken into police custody.

The Independent UK

Luxury cruise ship departs St. Paul, stirs river dreams for passengers, locals

MINNEAPOLIS — Bob Wilson stepped off a bus at St. Paul's Lambert's Landing on Saturday, a native back in his hometown for the maiden voyage of the Viking Mississippi, a 450-foot-long cruise ship and floating symbol of this city's hopes for a riverfront tourism revival.

Tribune News Service

Pilot 'who stole plane and threatened to fly into Walmart store' is arrested

The store in Mississippi was evacuated before Cory Wayne Patterson was arrested

Wales Online

In Jackson, Miss., football goes on despite the water crisis

Football is a way of life in Jackson, Mississippi. So are boil water notices. The latest water crisis has not stopped fans from filling the stands to support a local college team.

WEKU

US life expectancy in decline

The worst decline in a century reveals our for-profit healthcare system for what it really is

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Pilot seeking to crash plane into a Mississippi Walmart lands safely, in custody

Governor Tate Reeves said in a statement that he “thankful the situation has been resolved and that no one was injured.”

Salon

Jim Crow revived in new voting laws

Felon disenfranchisement was a key 1890 "reform" meant to drive Black voters off the rolls. Now it's back

Evening Standard

Watch: Footage shows pilot ‘threatening to crash into Walmart’ in Mississippi

A pilot is threatening to “intentionally to crash into” a local Walmart in Mississippi, local police have said.At approximately 11am UK time (5am US time), officers from the Tupelo Police Department were notified to a possible threat by a pilot.According to officers, the plane, believed to be a King Air…

Axios

Police: Rogue plane lands, pilot in custody after threatening to hit Mississippi Walmart

Police said the pilot threatened to “intentionally crash into Wal-Mart."

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The Independent UK

Police: Plane circling Mississippi city threatens to crash

Police say the pilot of a small airplane has been circling over Tupelo and other parts of northeast Mississippi and had threatened to crash the aircraft into a Walmart store

Evening Standard

Mississippi: Man charged after ‘stealing plane and threatening to crash into Walmart’

The man faces charges of grand larceny and terroristic threats

The Guardian - US

Pilot lands plane after threatening to crash into Mississippi Walmart – report

Airport worker who knew how to take off but not land is in police custody, report says

WEKU

The pilot who threatened to crash into a Mississippi Walmart has landed safely

The pilot who threatened to crash a small plane into a Walmart in Tupelo, Miss., was taken into custody, local authorities said.

The Independent UK

Mississippi Walmart evacuated after pilot threatens to ‘intentionally crash’ into it

The pilot later landed safely, injuring no one, and was taken into police custody.

Salon

Jackson is a current Hurricane Katrina

Like Hurricane Katrina and Flint, Michigan, systemic racism fueled Jackson’s water crisis

The Independent UK

NFL hall-of-famer Brett Favre questioned by FBI in $70m Mississippi welfare scandal

A defendant in a Mississippi welfare fraud case had previously said that she funnelled $1.1m in welfare money to the former NFL star at the direction of former Gov Phil Bryant

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