The US has nearly 56,000 structurally deficient bridges — here are the states...
The American Road & Transportation Builders Association released their 2017 Bridge Report which outline the 55,710 bridges in the US classified as "structurally deficient." The bridges are not all...
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BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — Officials have confirmed at least three fatalities and several injuries after a train collided with a charter bus in Biloxi, Mississippi.Biloxi city spokesman Vincent Creel says...
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An 'anti-choice center' has opened across the street from Mississippi's last...
(Mic) — Being the last remaining abortion clinic in Mississippi, Jackson Women's Health Organization is already in a pretty precarious position. And now, there's a new bully on the block — literally....
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Police say 8 people were killed in a Mississippi shooting
BROOKHAVEN, Miss. (AP) — Authorities in Mississippi said Sunday that a suspect is in custody after eight people were killed in a shooting, including a sheriff's deputy.Mississippi Bureau of...
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'He loved me enough to take some bullets for me': 18-year-old dies shielding...
BROOKHAVEN, Miss. (AP) — It was after midnight when a gunman burst into the living room of a southern Mississippi home where young people were playing video games.Caleb Edwards, 15, said the man — whom...
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Nate makes landfall at the mouth of the Mississippi River as a Category 1 storm
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Hurricane Nate came ashore at the mouth of the Mississippi River on Saturday and pelted the central Gulf Coast with wind and rain as the fast-moving storm steamed toward the...
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Photos show Hurricane Nate's destruction in the Gulf Coast and Central America
Hurricane Nate flooded the Gulf Coast as it made landfall in the US over the weekend.The center of the storm first hit land at the mouth of the Mississippi River, then again near Biloxi,...
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Suffering from an infection, the senior senator from Mississippi won't return...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran is continuing to grapple with a urinary tract infection that has delayed a planned return to Washington.The GOP veteran, 79, has been absent from...
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Trump visited Mississippi's new civil rights museum amid protests
President Donald Trump visited a newly opened museum on the civil rights movement in Jackson, Mississippi on Saturday.His presence triggered protests by Jackson residents, many of whom argued that the...
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Mississippi could become the first US state to have 2 official flags because...
A bill in the Mississippi House of Representatives proposes a two-flag solution to the state's debate over the use of a Confederate symbol in its current official flag. Republican Rep. Greg Snowden...
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Another top Republican has announced he will resign from Congress
Mississippi Republican Thad Cochran announced he will resign from the Senate on April 1, after months of poor health issues.Cochran's departure opens up another Senate election in Mississippi in...
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Trump keeps wading into hot Republican primary battles to back the...
President Donald Trump keeps wading into contentious Republican Senate primaries.This is not typical of a president.He has endorsed the establishment candidate in Mississippi, Alabama, and Nevada over...
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Cindy Hyde-Smith set to become first woman to ever represent Mississippi in...
Mississippi's Agriculture Commissioner Cindy Hyde-Smith could become the first woman to represent the state in Congress. Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant is expected to appoint Hyde-Smith to replace...
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A sign memorializing 14-year-old Emmett Till, whose lynching death helped...
A sign marking the spot where Emmett Till's body was pulled from a river in Mississippi after being lynched in 1955 has been defaced for a third time.The first sign installed by the Emmett Till...
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A Mississippi teen was crowned homecoming queen before scoring a game-winning...
Kaylee Foster was crowned homecoming queen at Mississippi's Ocean Springs High School on Friday night.She then went on to kick the game-winning field goal for her high school's football team.She posed...
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A basic income pilot in Mississippi will provide 15 black mothers with $1,000...
Starting in December, a basic income pilot in Jackson, Mississippi, will give $1,000 a month to 15 black mothers.Aisha Nyandoro, who is overseeing the year-long pilot, said researchers will analyze how...
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Republican Roger Wicker is projected to win Mississippi Senate seat, while...
On Tuesday, voters in Mississippi cast ballots to elect two US senators in the same year.Republican Roger Wicker was projected to win the race at the top of the ballot.And a special election to fill...
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Mississippi senator's quip about attending a public hanging goes over...
A newly published video shows a white Republican U.S. senator in Mississippi praising someone by saying: "If he invited me to a public hanging, I'd be on the front row."Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, who faces...
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Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith slammed for 'joking' about voter...
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, a Republican battling for reelection in Mississippi, is under fire for saying that laws that "make it just a little more difficult" for liberal college students to vote are "a...
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Walmart wants its campaign donation back after uproar over Sen. Cindy...
Walmart is "withdrawing our support and requesting a refund of all campaign donations" from Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith's campaign, amid backlash against Hyde-Smith for "public hanging"...
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