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UMMC’s ability to respond to a fire is compromised as a result of the water emergency and reduced water pressure in Jackson.

Insurance head Mike Chaney wrote a letter to the insurer and hospital late Friday directing them to answer Frank Dungan’s questions.

A man who repeatedly bonded out of jail and allegedly attacked his ex-girlfriend will likely be offered a plea deal this month.

The governor has given $3 million to a nonprofit that created technology to assist social workers at the Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services in finding extended family members of children in foster care.

Madison Central High School student Leo Mei is one of six test takers in the world who attained a perfect score on the AP Psych test.

The funding, awarded by Gov. Tate Reeves, is meant to provide relief to schools having been most significantly impacted by COVID-19.

Twenty-four educational organizations for children received a total of $5.4 million in the first round of funding from the Governor’s Emergency Education Relief fund to help schools and other organizations significantly impacted by COVID-19.

School districts want to use stimulus funds to pay teachers $1,000 to get vaccinated. State officials says they need to do more research.

Emails show the DeSoto County School District ignored pleas from dozens of parents and even a student about implementing a mask requirement.

The latest federal stimulus packages will provide enough child care assistance to cover almost 80% of eligible families in Mississippi.

The Mississippi School Board Association wants no part of the national group’s request for federal assistance to protect educators.

Advocates say Mississippi women are in danger with no state law matching a federal law keeping domestic violence offenders from owning guns.

The Greenville Public School District school board said there was not enough evidence to determine whether bus drivers went on strike.

The Mississippi chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics is pleading with schools not to drop their guards yet and keep mask mandates.

No new charter schools were approved to open in Mississippi this application cycle — some say it represents bigger problems with the climate in the state.

MDE has deemed the Canton Public School District’s federally funded after-school program high risk and may require the district to pay back $42,000.

In this mask-optional Mississippi school district, COVID-19 is spreading and teachers say students and staff are not being kept safe.

Natchez-Adams School District employees who get a COVID-19 vaccine by Nov. 1 will be eligible for a monetary incentive and one personal day.

The board of the Natchez-Adams School District took the next step to require district employees to receive the COVID-19 vaccination.

Mississippi schools are now allowed to implement hybrid schedules due to the rising number of COVID infections among children.