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This December 2022 photo provided by Nakala Murry of Indianola, Miss., shows her 11-year-old son Aderrien Murry, who was shot and wounded by an Indianola Police Department officer on May 20, 2023, during a domestic disturbance call at the home of Murry's family. The Mississippi Attorney General's Office announced Thursday, Dec. 14, that a Mississippi grand jury declined to bring charges against the police officer who responded to a call and shot and wounded the unarmed 11-year-old boy inside the home. (Nakala Murry via AP, File)

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Grand jury declines to indict Mississippi police officer who shot 11-year-old boy
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG - Associated Press/Report for America
Thu,12/14/23-6:22PM , 85 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi grand jury has declined to indict a police officer who responded to a call, and shot and wounded an unarmed 11-year-old boy inside the home.
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This Jan. 27, 2021 image provided by The Tate Record shows a Senatobia Police vehicle in front of the Senatobia, Miss., Police Department. A 10-year-old Black child, who was arrested by the police after urinating in a parking lot, must serve three months' probation and write a two-page book report on the late NBA star Kobe Bryant, a Tate County Youth Court Judge ruled Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023. (The Tate Record via AP)

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Black child, 10, sentenced to probation and a book report for urinating in public
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG - Associated Press/Report for America
Thu,12/14/23-2:06PM , 53 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A 10-year-old Black child who urinated in a parking lot must serve three months’ probation and write a two-page book report on the late NBA star Kobe Bryant, a Mississippi judge has ordered.
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Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, second from left, announces a proposal that he says should alleviate financial problems for hospitals during a news conference Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023, in Jackson, Miss. The federal government has approved the first part of Mississippi’s plan to help some of the state’s financially struggling hospitals receive more Medicaid money, Reeves said Wednesday, Dec. 13.(AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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Federal government approves part of Mississippi's plan to help struggling hospitals
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG - Associated Press/Report for America
Wed,12/13/23-1:05PM , 49 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The federal government has approved the first part of Mississippi’s plan to help some of the state’s financially strapped hospitals receive more Medicaid money, Gov. Tate Reeves said Wednesday.
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Westhaven Memorial Funeral Home staff adjust the body bag with the remains of Dexter Wade, who died after being hit by a Jackson, Miss., police SUV driven by an off-duty officer, in Raymond, Miss., Nov. 13, 2023. A third family says they recently discovered a relative was buried in a Mississippi pauper’s cemetery without their knowledge. Civil rights attorney Ben Crump says it is the latest case in which families learned the whereabouts of a deceased loved one from news reports instead of from officials in Hinds County, Mississippi. Crump says Jonathan David Hankins is the third person to have been quietly buried in the paupers’ cemetery near the Hinds County Penal Farm in the Jackson suburb of Raymond. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, file)

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Third Mississippi man is buried in a pauper's grave without family's knowledge
By MICHAEL GOLDBERG - Associated Press/Report for America
Mon,12/11/23-2:31PM , 89 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A third man in Mississippi has been discovered buried in a pauper's cemetery without his relatives' knowledge — and despite authorities knowing the identities of the deceased.
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