Tag: Mississippi

Magazine - Your Land

Egg Bowl dog pee celebration

Quin Hillyer · December 6, 2019 4:00 am

Republican Gov.-elect Tate Reeves addresses his supporters at a state GOP election night victory party, as wife, Elee Reeves, rear, and daughters Elizabeth, left, and Madeline, foreground, listen, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019, in Jackson, Miss. Reeves defeated Democratic Attorney General Jim Hood.

Republican Tate Reeves wins Mississippi governorship

Kerry Picket · November 6, 2019 4:33 am

Mississippi and Louisiana governor races tight as Democrats try to overcome states’ GOP leanings

Kerry Picket · November 4, 2019 6:15 pm

(AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Trump: Do you think I would ‘say something improper’ with people listening?

Ellie Bufkin · November 2, 2019 3:19 pm

WATCH: Trump holds rally in Mississippi

Washington Examiner Staff · November 1, 2019 11:15 pm

FILE - This undated portrait shows Emmett Till. The government is still investigating the brutal slaying of the black teenager that helped spur the civil rights movement more than 60 years ago. A Justice Department report issued to Congress about civil rights cold case investigations lists the 1955 slaying of 14-year-old Till as being among the unitâs active cases. Till, who was from Chicago, was abducted and beaten to death hours after he whistled at a white woman while visiting Mississippi. His body was found in a river days later.

Glass, steel, and cameras added to bulletproof memorial to Emmett Till after vandalism

Zach Halaschak · October 21, 2019 7:01 pm

U.S. paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division from Fort Bragg in North Carolina, reach the ground after jumping from a US Air Force C-17 aircraft during a 'Saber Strike 2018' military exercises at the Gaiziunai Training Area, some 130 kms (80 miles) west of the capital Vilnius, Lithuania, Saturday, June 9, 2018. A major U.S.-led military exercise with 18,000 soldiers from 19 primarily NATO countries is taking place in the alliance's eastern flank involving Poland and the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.

National Security

Over 20 hurt in military parachute training accident

Tim Pearce · October 3, 2019 12:34 pm

FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2010 file photo, an Amazon.com package is prepared for shipment by a United Parcel Service (UPS) driver in Palo Alto, Calif. States could force Internet retailers to collect sales taxes under a bill that the Senate advanced on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

Magazine - Business

Open carry policies leave businesses trying to find middle ground

Melissa Quinn · September 20, 2019 3:00 am

Booneâs Camp Event Hall in Mississippi.

Beltway Confidential

Bigotry masquerading as religious liberty: Mississippi business denies service to interracial couples

Nicole Russell · September 5, 2019 2:20 pm

Holy Bible

Mississippi wedding venue apologizes for citing ‘Christian beliefs’ to turn down interracial couple

Julio Rosas · September 4, 2019 12:51 am

A woman in a beauty salon having her eyebrows threaded.

Don’t thread on me: Shameless rent-seeking in the occupational licensing space

Washington Examiner · August 19, 2019 2:04 pm

In this Aug. 23, 1969 file photo, Pass Christian Civil Defense Director Parnell McKay looks over the townâs main business district after Hurricane Camille passed through. Camille was a Category 5 storm when it made landfall along the Mississippi coast on Aug. 17, 1969, with maximum sustained winds estimated at nearly 200 mph and a devastating storm surge.

Forget the moon landing and Woodstock: 50 years ago, Camille rocked a world

Quin Hillyer · August 15, 2019 5:52 pm