With high-performing programs and high-profile personnel moves, this Mississippi college football season keeps getting spicier.

Rick Cleveland's latest: buff.ly/3UxQsfx

Democrats and Republicans in the legislature are asking why they aren’t being given more information and for more time to vet Gov. Reeves' plan for lawmakers to provide millions for a company to build an aluminum plant in the Golden Triangle.

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During their fourth strike this year, Maximus call center workers demanded $25-an-hour pay, more support from supervisors, and better protection from abusive callers.

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Wendell France Sr., a former Baltimore jail warden & current criminal justice adjunct professor, was appointed receiver of the Hinds County Detention Center.

Today is his first day, but he will not take operational control of the jail until Jan. 1, 2023.

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A former Baltimore jail warden and current criminal justice adjunct professor was appointed receiver of the Hinds County Detention Center, U.S. District Court Judge Carlton Reeves ruled Monday evening.

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Disability Rights Mississippi & Southern Poverty Law Center sued in 2011 over conditions & treatment of children at the center, including denial of mental health treatment
& insufficient educational, rehabilitative and recreational programming.

They settled with the county & entered the consent decree in 2012

.Kate Royals of Mississippi Today is working on a story about the lack of #Medicaid expansion in #Mississippi and how it affects those in the coverage gap. She is looking for real stories from real people. Call her cell at 601-941-2079 if you're interested in being interviewed.

Large group of strikers are outside Maximus call center in Hattiesburg this morning. Many of these workers take calls for the Affordable Care Act marketplace — which is why they chose today to strike. It’s open enrollment. Mississippi Today

A decades-long court agreement to address unconstitutional conditions at the Hinds County youth detention center has ended, but advocates and county officials said work will continue to ensure the wellbeing of detainees.

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The latest from Marshall Ramsey: Trick or Treat
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ICYMI: The federal board that decides if the Mississippi Gulf Coast gets its train to NOLA is scheduled to vote on its fate in December. (Could this saga be close to finally ending? This train was one of the first major stories I did for Mississippi Today)
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Breaking: Gov. Tate Reeves has called lawmakers to a Wednesday special session for an economic development project that will bring $2.5 billion of investment, create 1,000 high-paying jobs.

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National NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson discusses Jackson’s water crisis and the NAACP’s Title VI discrimination complaint on the latest episode of #TheOtherSideMT .

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In Mississippi, attorneys who represent the indigent in criminal cases have to deal with an underfunded public-defender system that lacks statewide funding and oversight.

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