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Ole Miss professor slammed over political tweet gets tenure 1 TexasTowelie May 2019 May 2019 1 1491

Jury awards $3M to black strippers in discrimination case 2 TexasTowelie May 2019 May 2019 3 1687

She called 911. Then she was killed. $1M awarded to family in suit against Jackson 0 TexasTowelie May 2019 May 2019 3 1368

Mississippi Group Floats 'Medicaid Reform' Plan to Woo Republicans 1 TexasTowelie May 2019 May 2019 0 1272

Sexual harassment cases against Hinds County sheriff settled for $230,000 0 TexasTowelie May 2019 May 2019 0 1205

Takeover of Two School Districts Underway 0 TexasTowelie May 2019 May 2019 0 1391

Tax preparer from nation's poorest county sentenced to five years for $3.5 million in tax fraud 0 TexasTowelie May 2019 May 2019 0 1190

Supervisor's 2018 DUI arrest hidden from public eye 0 TexasTowelie May 2019 May 2019 0 1317

GOP Rep: Mississippi Needs Hate Crimes Law for LGBT, Disabled People 0 TexasTowelie May 2019 May 2019 0 1238

Decisions on Mississippi Power Face New Officials 0 TexasTowelie May 2019 May 2019 0 1101

Louisiana 'Heartbeat Bill' Relies on Mississippi Taxpayers' Legal Defense 0 TexasTowelie May 2019 May 2019 0 1221

Mississippi School Discriminated to Avoid White Flight, Lawsuit Claims 0 TexasTowelie May 2019 May 2019 1 1242

Mississippi Couple Plead Guilty To Receiving $1.7 Million in Health Care Kickback Scheme 0 TexasTowelie May 2019 May 2019 1 1302

DA says man burned church to hide own activities 0 TexasTowelie May 2019 May 2019 0 1478

Mississippi cooperatives taking a close look at rural internet 1 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1402

Treated like 'animals': Lockdown at prison over guard shortage entering 4th month 0 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 1 1194

Many state employees are waiting to get small pay raises. But some have already gotten large ones. 0 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1192

Reeves Falsely Claims Hood Will Let 'Terrorists and Rapists' Vote 0 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1279

Democrats, Activists 'Infuriated' as Hood Defends Six-Week Abortion Ban 0 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1274

'This is a really big deal' -- some teachers left out of pay raise due to administrative error 0 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 1 1352

Grocery tax unpopular, but cutting it hasn't been winner for politicians 0 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1255

A ship under arrest? Warrant issued after crash caused over $40 million in damage, Ingalls says 1 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 1 1513

Mississippi Approves License Plates With New State Flag Design 3 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 2 1604

Mississippi governor signs $1,500 pay raise for teachers 1 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 1 1235

Hood Takes Heat for Blackface Photos, Says Leave Trans Rights Up to Schools 1 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 1 1242

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 1172

No, they're not crazy. But they did just buy a bankrupt hospital in rural Mississippi. 0 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 2 1282

Former Mississippi sheriff gets 6 years in prison over drug dealer bribes 0 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1297

This message was self-deleted by its author 0 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1226

Mississippi man pleads guilty to federal hate crime for cross burning 1 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 3 1628

Mississippi Continued...

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Mississippi teacher group eyeing protest asks about walkout 0 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 1 1346

Mississippi levels fraud charge at Entergy, argues it have bought cheaper power 0 TexasTowelie Apr 2019 Apr 2019 0 1368

Mississippi Senate Approves New Map to Boost Black Voting Power 5 TexasTowelie Mar 2019 Mar 2019 9 1904

Credit union VP who admitted taking $350K was accused at another Coast bank years earlier 1 TexasTowelie Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1498

'Nothing's going to be the same.' A $200M plan for former Margaritaville site in East Biloxi 0 TexasTowelie Mar 2019 Mar 2019 0 1439

$400M pain cream fraud: Drug rep headed to prison. And his crime will cost him $2.2M 1 TexasTowelie Mar 2019 Mar 2019 14 2569

Mississippi Closes More Bridges After Counties Don't Act 3 TexasTowelie Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1548

Speaker: Lawmakers Eye $1,000 Raise for Mississippi Teachers 0 TexasTowelie Mar 2019 Mar 2019 1 1221

Navy awards $1.47B contract for ship to Mississippi shipyard 0 TexasTowelie Mar 2019 Mar 2019 0 1438

Man Pleads Guilty To Health Care Fraud, Money Laundering And Tax Evasion Charges For Role in $200M 0 TexasTowelie Mar 2019 Mar 2019 2 1349

Elizabeth Warren to hold Mississippi town hall moderated by Jake Tapper at Jackson State 1 Tactical Peek Mar 2019 Mar 2019 2 1814

Ole Miss student government votes to remove Confederate monuments from campus 1 TexasTowelie Mar 2019 Mar 2019 4 1445

Hoping everyone is okay, tornado! 0 littlemissmartypants Feb 2019 Feb 2019 6 1481

Pro-Confederate Groups Planning Rally at the University of Mississippi 4 TexasTowelie Feb 2019 Feb 2019 1 1967

'The money's used up:' Raises unlikely for state workers, senator says 0 TexasTowelie Feb 2019 Feb 2019 0 1511

Study finds 31 Mississippi rural hospitals at high risk of closure 1 TexasTowelie Feb 2019 Feb 2019 1 1374

Legislative Update: Tort Reform, Heartbeat Bills, Teacher Pay Moves Forward 0 TexasTowelie Feb 2019 Feb 2019 1 1268

Mississippi sues federal government over river flooding 1 TexasTowelie Feb 2019 Feb 2019 1 1591

Mississippi lieutenant governor was in fraternity that hosted racist party 1 RandySF Feb 2019 Feb 2019 1 1841

State Senate bills seek to allow religious, philosophical exemptions for vaccinating children 3 TexasTowelie Feb 2019 Feb 2019 1 1722

Proposal Would Make Mississippi Voter ID Law Stricter 1 TexasTowelie Feb 2019 Feb 2019 1 1524

House Bill Allows Retired Teachers to Teach and Receive Pension 0 TexasTowelie Feb 2019 Feb 2019 1 1341

Bill proposes $1,000 increase in Mississippi teacher pay 1 TexasTowelie Feb 2019 Feb 2019 1 1391

Mississippi lawmakers push to amend state law on hate crimes to protect LGBT 0 TexasTowelie Feb 2019 Feb 2019 0 1264

Nissan to Cut Up to 700 Contract Workers in Mississippi 1 TexasTowelie Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 1575

Mississippi May Mandate Ten Commandments and Pledges to State, U.S. Flags in Schools 5 TexasTowelie Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 1903

Mississippi Leaders Still 'Honoring' Racists, After All These Years 1 TexasTowelie Jan 2019 Jan 2019 3 1403

MDOC, recently plagued by corruption, wants to be allowed more secrecy 0 TexasTowelie Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 1490

Webster County Sheriff pleads not guilty to felonies, put on house arrest 0 TexasTowelie Jan 2019 Jan 2019 1 1330

Powerful legislative seats in question following DUI arrests 0 TexasTowelie Jan 2019 Jan 2019 3 1698

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Running list: Declared, rumored 2019 candidates for statewide office 0 TexasTowelie Jan 2019 Jan 2019 1 1355

Ole Miss to return most of $402,100 donated by businessman sentenced in $100M Ponzi scheme 0 TexasTowelie Jan 2019 Jan 2019 0 1347

FEC Filings: Hyde-Smith Returned Racist's Donation, But Not $50,000 to Corporations 0 TexasTowelie Jan 2019 Jan 2019 0 1403

All clear given after portion of Walnut Grove evacuated due to major gas leak 0 TexasTowelie Jan 2019 Jan 2019 1 1459

Why an insurance policy change has some ER doctors worried in Mississippi 1 TexasTowelie Dec 2018 Dec 2018 2 2282

Mississippi senator's arrest could create leadership fight 1 TexasTowelie Dec 2018 Dec 2018 5 1995

Mississippi Appeal Seeks To Revive 15-Week Abortion Ban 0 TexasTowelie Dec 2018 Dec 2018 0 1478

Companies Asked a Mississippi Senator to Refund Donations. They Are Still Waiting. 3 TexasTowelie Dec 2018 Dec 2018 2 1582

Teacher pay raises uncertain in legislative budget plan 0 TexasTowelie Dec 2018 Dec 2018 1 1374

Man gets 3 years for identity theft of veteran and benefits 0 TexasTowelie Dec 2018 Dec 2018 2 1346

Auditor demands more than $200,000 from Lincoln County chancery clerk 0 TexasTowelie Dec 2018 Dec 2018 1 1401

Foster Claims 'Third Party' Offered $1 Million to Exit Governor's Race 0 TexasTowelie Dec 2018 Dec 2018 2 1334

Clinton pharmacist will head to prison in compound pharmacy scheme 6 TexasTowelie Nov 2018 Nov 2018 5 2551

Two more real-estate investors admit cheating at South Mississippi foreclosure auctions 0 TexasTowelie Nov 2018 Nov 2018 3 1403

Mississippi Rhodes Scholar Jaz Brisack shares passion for labor organizing in the South 0 TexasTowelie Nov 2018 Nov 2018 0 1317

Confederate flag on civil rights hero's grave gets widow's pardon 0 TexasTowelie Nov 2018 Nov 2018 0 1468

Mike Espy Came Closer to Senate Seat Than Any Dem Since 1982 1 TexasTowelie Nov 2018 Nov 2018 6 1906

Advocates Say Increased Taxes on Cigarettes Will Save Lives and Money in Mississippi 1 TexasTowelie Nov 2018 Nov 2018 0 1515

End Near for Racist Politics in Mississippi? 0 TexasTowelie Nov 2018 Nov 2018 0 1343

Trump just gave a shout out to Mike Hurst, who is the United States Attorney 2 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2018 Nov 2018 9 2409

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