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A protestor marks the first anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization by holding a neon sign June 23, 2023, in front of the tribunal’s Washington chambers. (Associated Press file)
Oct 14, 2024

10 South Carolinians face pregnancy-related charges after Dobbs ruling

South Carolina is one of the handful of states that has charged women with pregnancy-related crimes in the year after the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its Dobbs decision, the […]

Media members interview Derrick Dearman as he is escorted into Mobile County Metro Jail on Aug. 22, 2016, in Mobile, Ala. (The Birmingham News file)
Sep 5, 2024

Killer who dropped appeals faces October execution

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama has set a mid-October execution date for a man who admitted to killing five people with an ax and gun and later told a judge he […]

A state lawsuit filed by Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch alleges 13 companies participated in ‘the worst man-made epidemic in modern medical history’ by over-prescribing opioids. (Associated Press file)
Sep 3, 2024

Mississippi lawsuit alleges over-prescription of opioids

JACKSON, Miss. — The state of Mississippi is suing drug manufacturers and pharmacy benefit managers alleging that opioids were over-prescribed. Attorney General Lynn Fitch filed the suit Thursday in Hinds […]

Farmers who were victims of discrimination when applying for federal assistance will be paid $2 billion total though a U.S. Department of Agriculture program. (Depositphotos.com)
Aug 2, 2024

Discrimination victims to receive $2B from USDA

By Jared Strong The U.S. Department of Agriculture will pay up to $2 billion to tens of thousands of working and would-be farmers who say they were discriminated against when […]

The NCAA and a coalition of states suing it have announced a settlement that will allow athletes to resume competition immediately at a new school no matter how many times they have transferred in the past. (Associated Press file)
Jun 3, 2024

Back in action: Settlement allows multiple-transfer athletes to play

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The NCAA and a coalition of states suing the organization have announced a proposed settlement of a lawsuit that would allow athletes to be immediately eligible to […]

South Carolina and 18 other states are suing a five-state coalition that has filed its own multibillion-dollar claim against energy companies over damages from climate change.
May 30, 2024

SC joins lawsuit challenging climate change claims

South Carolina has joined a coalition suing to oppose five other state’s claims against energy companies over climate change.

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, center, signs a bill that prevents transgender girls and women from competing on female sports teams on March 30, 2022, in Oklahoma City. (Associated Press file)
May 1, 2024

GOP AGs challenge federal transgender students rule

Several Republican state attorneys general are challenging a federal regulation that seeks to protect the rights of transgender students in the nation’s schools by banning blanket policies that bar transgender […]

Daniel Opdyke, a former Rankin County sheriff's deputy, looks to his family after being sentenced Wednesday in Brandon, Miss., on state charges stemming from the 2023 racially motivated torture of two Black men. (Associated Press)
Apr 11, 2024

Court sentences former lawmen in torture case

BRANDON, Miss. — Already sentenced to many years in federal prison, six white former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty to a long list of state and federal charges […]

Over Wednesday and Thursday, a federal judge in Jackson, Miss., sentenced the last four former law officers — from left, Christian Dedmon, Brett McAlpin, Daniel Opdyke and Joshua Hartfield — who pleaded guilty in the horrific torture of two Black men in Rankin County, Miss. (Composite from Associated Press photo)
Mar 22, 2024

Court sentences last ‘Goon Squad’ case officers

JACKSON, Miss. — A federal judge on Thursday finished handing down prison terms of about 10 to 40 years to six white former Mississippi law enforcement officers who pleaded guilty […]

Former Deputy Sheriffs Hunter Elward, 31, left, and Jeffrey Middleton, 46, were sentenced Tuesday in Jackson, Miss., to 20 and 17½ years respectively in federal prison Tuesday for their roles in the torture of two Black men who had committed no crime. (Composite from Associated Press photo)
Mar 20, 2024

‘Goon Squad’ deputies given yearslong sentences

JACKSON, Miss. — Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker sat on the front row of a packed courtroom Tuesday and watched as a federal judge handed down yearslong sentences […]

Michael Christian Green, a former officer with the Pearl Police Department, awaits sentencing on a federal deprivation of civil rights charge stemming from him make a jailed man lick urine from a holding cell floor. (Associated Press)
Mar 18, 2024

Ex-officer pleads guilty in urine-licking incident

JACKSON, Miss. — A former Mississippi police officer pleaded guilty Thursday to a federal misdemeanor charge after authorities said he forced a man he had arrested to lick urine off […]

The Mississippi Supreme Court upheld, 7-2, on Thursday the convictions of Willie Cory Godbolt for capital murder, first-degree murder, and other charges in the deaths of eight people, including a deputy sheriff, in 2017. (Associated Press file)
Mar 8, 2024

State Supreme Court upholds killer’s death sentences

JACKSON, Miss. — The Mississippi Supreme Court has affirmed the convictions and death sentences of a man in the killings of eight people, including his mother-in-law and a deputy sheriff, […]


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