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The judge is also due to sentence five other ex-officers who admitted to torturing Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker after a neighbor complained that the men were staying in a home with a white woman

The two candidates already have the numbers for the summer conventions following Tuesday’s primaries in Georgia, Mississippi and Washington

Since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion in 2022, voters in seven states have either protected abortion rights or defeated attempts to curtail them in statewide votes

The lawsuit claimed officers targeted Black drivers with illegal roadblocks, retaliated against people for recording police activity, committed sexual assault and made arrests of people for using profanity

It’s also been increasingly difficult for medical providers to get benzathine penicillin injections — the main medical weapon against congenital syphilis — because of supply shortages

Five Black candidates are running for statewide office, from agriculture commissioner to secretary of state. Each is trying to become the first Black candidate to ever win one of those posts

In addition to not approving the University of Wisconsin pay raises, Gov. Tony Evers argues that the Legislature is blocking state conservation programs

At a news conference Wednesday, activists said they spoke for Jackson residents who want more say over reforms to the city’s water system.

American calligrapher and researcher Phyllis Goodnow has collected a list of thousands of victims of the slave trade in a project to honor their history

Brandon Case and his father, Gregory Case, are charged with attempted first-degree murder, conspiracy and shooting into the vehicle driven by D’Monterrio Gibson in January 2022

Prosecutors say the officers nicknamed themselves the ‘Goon Squad’ because of their willingness to use excessive force and cover it up, including the attack that ended with a deputy shooting one victim in the mouth

Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division says the trauma of the case “is magnified because the misconduct was fueled by racial bias and hatred”

Court documents say the officers called themselves The Goon Squad “because of their willingness to use excessive force and and not to report it

Since 1996, tornadoes in the United States have killed 815 people in mobile or manufactured homes, representing 53% of all the people killed at home during a tornado

Emmett Till’s lynching in 1955 and his mother’s insistence on an open casket helped galvanize the civil rights movement

The National Weather Service has issued flash flood warnings and watches for the area where Kentucky, Illinois and Missouri meet at the convergence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers

Authorities said 31 cows died in the northern Alabama town of Berlin during Saturday’s severe weather when lightning struck the tree they were hiding under

State emergency workers were still working with counties to assess the damage from storms in which high temperatures and hail in some areas accompanied tornadoes

About 475,000 customers were without electricity in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Oklahoma as of Friday morning, as another series of fierce storms made its way through Southern states

While campaigning, Brandon Presley talks frequently about government corruption, focusing on a multimillion-dollar welfare scandal that developed when Tate Reeves was lieutenant governor

Now at least 20 states, including Ohio, Mississippi and Pennsylvania just this year, have legalized the test strips in a bid to combat rising deaths from the ever-present opioid crisis

Officials in the state capital of Jackson announced Wednesday that a grand jury had indicted two former police officers on murder charges and another ex-officer on a manslaughter charge in the death of Keith Murriel

Missouri and Nebraska proposals are poised for action as well, and could add to the list of at least 17 states that have enacted laws restricting or banning gender affirming care for minors

Six high school students were injured after gunfire erupted at a house party in southern Mississippi, according to a news report.

Republican Gov. Tate Reeves says violent crime in Jackson has made it necessary to expand where the Capitol Police can patrol and to authorize some appointed rather than elected judges

Twenty-five U.S. jurisdictions have legalized the drug, while others have only decriminalized. If you’re traveling, make sure to avoid legal issues