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Monthly Archives: October, 2023

Harris elected to Clarksdale Ward 2 Commissioner seat

By Josh Troy Clarksdale Advocate Jimmy Harris is the City of Clarksdale's new Ward 2 Commissioner. Harris secured 480 votes (56%) in a runoff election on...

Live updates | Relief operations in Gaza in jeopardy as Israeli airstrikes increase

The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees says its relief operations across the Gaza Strip will need to be sharply curtailed amid crippling Israeli airstrikes. Hospitals in Gaza...

Mississippi should set minimum wage higher than federal level, says Democrat running for governor

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Democrat who's trying to unseat Mississippi's Republican governor said Tuesday that the state should set a minimum wage higher than the...

Democrat running for Mississippi attorney general pitches civil rights reforms as Election Day nears

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Democratic nominee for attorney general Greta Kemp Martin says “inaction” has been the primary feature of the state's top...

Few transplant surgeons are Black. Giving medical students a rare peek at organ donation may help

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — It’s long after midnight when the bustling operating room suddenly falls quiet — a moment of silence to honor the...

Tennessee GOP is willing to reject millions in funding, if it avoids complying with federal strings

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee Republican leaders are escalating their calls to reject millions of federal dollars rather than comply with requirements over LGBTQ+...

Manhunt continues for Nashville police chief’s son suspected in shooting of 2 Tennessee officers

LA VERGNE, Tenn. (AP) — Police in Tennessee were searching Sunday for the estranged son of Nashville’s police chief as the suspect in the...

Delayed homicide autopsies pile up in Mississippi despite tough-on-crime-talk

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Incomplete homicide autopsy reports have continued to pile up in Mississippi - despite tough-on-crime talk by state leaders ahead of...

No one injured in shooting near Mississippi home of US Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith

BROOKHAVEN, Miss. (AP) — Federal and state law enforcement agencies are investigating a shooting near the Mississippi home of U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, state...

Zees’s BBQ

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Dwindling fuel supplies for Gaza’s hospital generators put premature babies in incubators at risk

DEIR AL BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — A premature baby squirms inside a glass incubator in the neonatal ward of al-Aqsa Hospital in the...

Americans’ faith in institutions has been sliding for years. The chaos in Congress isn’t helping

WASHINGTON (AP) — For many Americans, the Republican dysfunction that has ground business in the U.S. House to a halt as two wars rage abroad and...

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