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Mississippi Today is tracking how opioid settlement funds are being used by almost every local government receiving money.

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Advocates have told Mississippi Today about sightings of immigration officials across the state, including in the Jackson metro area, and our reporters are working to cover these stories. But we need your help.

Some patients say they are unhappy with scarring and other problems after having facial plastic surgery by Dr. Adair Blackledge of Jackson. Blackledge says he prides himself on neat work and good patient care, and that critics have harassed him and his staff.

Day care deaths are rare, but complaints about injuries, neglect, abuse and unsafe conditions are more common. Together, they show an industry with too few resources to guarantee safety at an affordable price. 

Six years after ICE raids on Mississippi poultry plants, current and former immigrant workers say deteriorated conditions persist for both those undocumented and on work visas.

Mississippi, the Deep South and the nation are seeing a boom in artificial intelligence data center construction. The centers promise economic growth, but there are concerns about their environmental impact and that they create relatively few jobs.

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The same year the state agreed to pay VitalCore $100 million in taxpayer funds to provide health care to people incarcerated in Mississippi prisons, a top official at the Mississippi Department of Corrections, asked about an inmate's rotting leg, remarked that the company "sucks."

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The FBI and a Mississippi sheriff investigated complaints about brutal assaults, but the deputies accused remained on the force and were never charged.

NFL player Jeffery Simmons chooses his native Mississippi as a site for free distribution of naloxone.

Gov. Tate Reeves says he will not block the execution of Mississippi's oldest and longest-serving death row inmate.

Aspiring authors honed their craft during the McMullen Young Writers Workshop at Millsaps College in Jackson.

'When they beg me for supplies because they make them reuse colostomy bags over and over that don’t fit, when they are bowel and bladder incontinent and they don’t provide diapers to them it is hard for me to hear that (MDOC) feels that they provide adequate care.' -- House Corrections Chairwoman Becky Currie

The Mississippi Department of Health, which is responsible for regulating and licensing day care centers, fined Little Blessings $50 after the incident.

The field was not added by Epic, the electronic health record system used by UMMC, a spokesperson for the software company told Mississippi Today. 

Mississippi is expected to receive $370 million in opioid settlement funds and we're following how the state and local governments are spending it.

Parents who lost children to addiction expressed concern that their local elected officials hadn’t sought the voices of people in their shoes and worried these funds could be used in ways that wouldn’...

It’s a small part in a big movie, but for the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, their scene in "Sinners" is a huge deal.

Public health advocates and Mississippians affected by the crisis worry the setup for the state's opioid settlement funds could enable the dollars to be spent on purposes other than ending the overdos...

The mother of Ravi Coutinho, the subject of a recent ProPublica investigation, is suing Centene for publishing “misleading” information that gave her son a false impression about the kinds of mental h...

Brown hopes that his persistence and dedication to creating safe spaces inspires others in Jackson to imagine what’s possible for their neighborhoods.

The hotly contested race reflects what political observers and ward residents have known for years now: Northeast Jackson is not quite the “white Republican bastion” it once was. 

Moms in Mississippi now face out-of-pocket costs of over $100 per session for breastfeeding help – and are calling on lawmakers and the state’s largest private insurer to step up. 

It’s the first time Delta Dental’s foundation, the philanthropic arm of the national dental insurance company, has funded a senior oral health partnership outside of California or Washington, D.C.

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Expanding access to PrEP is a national public health challenge. But Mississippi is the farthest behind the rest of the country in reaching people who could benefit from the medication.

A new report shows West Virginia’s workplace death rate is among the country’s highest. Labor leaders are calling for more safety standards.

About $4.1 million of the federal funding that was cut was for Mississippi’s community mental health centers, organizations across the state that run services including the addiction treatment program...

Mississippi is set for a windfall of hundreds of millions of dollars in opioid settlement money. Siegler will lead coverage examining how those monies are spent.

The CDC unit that monitored all coal workers' health, including black lung disease, is gone. Their physicians wonder, "Now what?"

A Georgia clinic recently examined how many young patients tested positive for anemia at their 12 and 24-month checkups. They found that a quarter of them had low oxygen levels, much higher than the estimated 1-5% of U.S. children who have the condition.

Even as one of the most severe Georgia flu seasons in recent years continues to recede, health workers in the metro Atlanta area continue to express caution about respiratory, vaccine-preventable diseases.

Days after the CDC rescinded over $11 billion intended for state and local public health work across the country, health departments around Atlanta are assessing how they will continue to serve residents.

At Charles Drew High School near Atlanta, a new program supports students whose responsibilities at home include caring for children or sick relatives.

For over 50 years, the federal Rehabilitation Act was a way for parents to make sure schools accommodate the special needs of their kids. But a lawsuit by 17 attorneys general, including Georgia's, co...