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Latasha Chairse at the south Jackson home she has lived in with her family for nearly three years, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025. Charis has been informed that she has no rights to the house and was ordered to move. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today

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First Jacksonian exiled under new ‘squatters law’ claimed she’d scored one of the city’s many forfeited fixer-uppers
By MOLLY MINTA - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Thu,11/20/25-6:10PM , 421 Reads 7,630 Statewide
Latasha Chairse has a bizarre story. Equipped with a copy of someone else’s property deed, some elbow grease and a deluded interpretation of the state’s tax forfeiture process, Chairse claimed she thought she was acquiring one of Jackson’s many abandoned homes.
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People are regularly wounded at this Jackson apartment complex. Suing the landlord has only gotten harder.
By MOLLY MINTA - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Thu,11/13/25-3:38PM , 405 Reads 8,689 Statewide
Residents routinely won settlements from the out-of-state companies responsible for Rebelwood, a south Jackson apartment complex known for its unsafe conditions.
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Voting takes place at Briarwood Presbyterian Church in Jackson on Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2025. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today

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Jackson-area voters will return for runoff to replace Horhn in Senate
By MOLLY MINTA - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Wed,11/05/25-9:48AM , 390 Reads 6,037 Statewide
After John Horhn represented the district for three decades, voters in northwest Jackson and rural parts of Hinds and Madison Counties cast ballots Tuesday for their new state senator.
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Medical examiner could not determine Jimmie ‘Jay’ Lee’s cause or manner of death
By MOLLY MINTA - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Fri,10/31/25-4:08PM , 299 Reads 3,913 Statewide
The medical examiner could not determine a cause or manner of death for Jimmie “Jay” Lee, the University of Mississippi student whose disappearance and death sparked a movement in Oxford’s LGBTQ+ community.
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