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Republican Gov. Tate Reeves speaks with reporters after his address at the pavilion in Founders Square at the Neshoba County Fair in Philadelphia, Miss., Thursday, July 28, 2022. The fair, also known as Mississippi's Giant House Party, is an annual event of agricultural, political, and social entertainment at what might be the country's largest campground fair. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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Mississippi changes legal team to handle welfare fraud case
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Thu,08/18/22-1:02PM , 158 Reads
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Hospital system says it's hurt by lack of Medicaid expansion
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Tue,07/19/22-2:06PM , 282 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A county-owned Mississippi hospital system that wants to put itself up for sale says one of its main financial challenges is the decision by the state's elected officials not to extend Medicaid to provide insurance coverage for the working poor.
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A security officer walks past the front of the Jackson Women's Health Organization clinic in Jackson, Miss., Sunday, July 3, 2022. The medical facility was open for three hours before anti-abortion protesters arrived. The clinic is the only facility that performs abortions in the state. On June 24, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending constitutional protections for abortion. However, a Mississippi judge has set a hearing for Tuesday, in a lawsuit by the state's only abortion clinic that seeks to block a law that would ban most abortions. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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Owner: Mississippi abortion clinic is sold, won't reopen
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Mon,07/18/22-4:34PM , 202 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi abortion clinic at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court case that overturned Roe v. Wade has been sold and will not reopen even if it's allowed to do so by a state court, its owner told The Associated Press on Monday.
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House Education Committee member Ashley Henley, R-Southaven, asks a question about teacher pay raise legislation presented before the committee on Jan. 31, 2019, at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss. Billy Lamar Brooks has been indicted on a murder charge a year after the former Mississippi lawmaker was shot to death while she was doing yard work in a rural area where her sister-in-law had died. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

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Man indicted in shooting death of ex Mississippi lawmaker
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Sat,07/09/22-12:26PM , 438 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A man has been indicted on a murder charge a year after a former Mississippi lawmaker was shot to death while she was doing yard work in a rural area where her sister-in-law had died.
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