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Clarksdale's only hospital is located at 1970 Hospital Dr. Credit: Aallyah Wright, Mississippi Today

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Hospitals to kick off Medicaid expansion ballot drive

By GEOFF PENDER - MISSISSIPPI TODAY GEOFF PENDER - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Wed,05/05/21-5:03PM, 6,283 Reads 136,653 Statewide
A nonprofit backed by the Mississippi Hospital Association plans next week to kick off its petition drive to put Medicaid expansion before voters on the 2022 midterm ballot, hoping to override a recalcitrant Legislature and put expansion in the state constitution.
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Both Roddarius Moss, left, and Dyiesha Janaee Spraggin, right, are charged with murder in the shooting death of Kwaiyhone Hodges, center, of Glendora. (Photos special to The Sun-Sentinel)

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Second person charged in Glendora murder case

By CLAY MCFERRIN CLAY MCFERRIN - Editor and Publisher, Charleston Sun-Sentinel
Thu,03/07/24-6:18PM, 6,282 Reads
GLENDORA — A second person has been charged with murder in connection with a December shooting death in the village.
Roddarius Moss, 20, of 154 Gipson Ave., Apt. 2, was arrested Monday afternoon, said Tallahatchie County Sheriff Jimmy Fly.
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NOW 50 COVID-19 CASES IN MISSISSIPPI

By CLAY MCFERRIN CLAY MCFERRIN
Thu,03/19/20-10:24AM, 6,281 Reads
Fifty (50) cases of COVID-19 have been reported in the Magnolia State, the Mississippi State Department of Health announced Thursday, March 19.
In the MSDH daily public report about the number of of COVID-19 positive cases in the state, the department revealed the following:
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Last Monday and Tuesday, between 13-20 bus drivers for the Greenville Public School District skipped work to protest reduced pay and what they called poor work conditions. Credit: Kayleigh Skinner, Mississippi Today

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Greenville bus strike could transform public education in Mississippi

By ADAM GANUCHEAU AND KATE ROYALS - MISSISSIPPI TODAY ADAM GANUCHEAU AND KATE ROYALS - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Fri,05/07/21-2:30PM, 6,280 Reads 61,606 Statewide
A political time bomb is ticking in Greenville, and the explosion could transform the state’s public education environment for decades to come.
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