More than a century before failing infrastructure left Jackson, Mississippi, without running water this summer, thousands of the capital city's residents gathered in a park downtown to celebrate the new water filtration plant that promised to turn the muddy liquid flowing into people’s taps into “clean, pure water.”
Read MoreMississippi’s former welfare director said he was acting on behalf of then-Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves, text messages indicate, when he funneled $1.3 million into a fitness program that the state is now targeting in its civil lawsuit to recoup millions in misspent federal dollars.
Read MoreMississippi once again has the country’s highest rate of fetal death, according to data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday.
Read MoreNancy New’s attorney has filed a subpoena directly on former Gov. Phil Bryant for documents related to the use of federal welfare funds to build a volleyball stadium at his alma mater, University of Southern Mississippi — information the state has appeared intent on concealing.
Read MoreThe news that Mississippi was revamping its foster care system had reached countless officials, churches and charities across the state before Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Dawn Beam realized: The plan was never going to take root.
Read MoreMississippi is already the poorest state in the nation, with many women living in rural health care deserts, as well as the highest rates of teenage pregnancy and infant and maternal mortality of any state.
Read MoreDr. Anita Henderson has her work cut out for her. The health of mothers and babies is her professional concern, and Mississippi remains the most dangerous state for both by virtually every metric.
Read MoreNoah McRae was the kind of kid who, if you said the sky is blue, would argue it is red until he was ready to fight.
Read MoreAs Jennifer Garner spoke about growing up and her family’s narrow escape from poverty in West Virginia, a C-SPAN camera panned over to then-Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant.
Read MoreFor years, retired pharmacist Judy Wolverton Palmer was addicted to peanut butter, digging into any jar she could find.
She battled both weight and health issues, including chronic pain, skin issues, prediabetes, asthma and gastrointestinal problems.
Read MoreNEWPORT, Arkansas – This is the most diabetic place in America.
None of those interviewed knew that. Not even the mayor. “I didn’t know it until you told me,” Mayor David Stewart said.
Read MoreBombs are exploding across the nation, with injuries and casualties reaching the millions, but few recognize the war that is taking place, experts say.
That war is diabetes, and Mississippi is ground zero, the only state in the nation where every county is in what researchers call the diabetes belt.
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