Category: Mississippi

Biden’s COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates an ‘Attack’ on ‘Hard-Working Americans:’ Mississippi Governor

President Joe Biden’s new COVID-19 vaccine mandates are an attempt to impose rules on American workers, Mississippi’s governor said Sunday. “The president very much wants you and everyone else to believe that this is a fight between politicians. The reality is, this is an attack by the president on hardworking Americans and hardworking Mississippians, who…


Biden’s COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates an ‘Attack’ on ‘Hardworking Americans’: Mississippi Governor

President Joe Biden’s new COVID-19 vaccine mandates are an attempt to impose rules on American workers, Mississippi’s governor said on Sept. 19. “The president very much wants you and everyone else to believe that this is a fight between politicians. The reality is, this is an attack by the president on hardworking Americans and hardworking…


Third Person Dies in Mississippi Highway Collapse

HATTIESBURG, Miss.—A third person has died as a result of a highway collapse in south Mississippi two weeks ago. Amanda Williams of Wiggins died Saturday after being hospitalized since the Aug. 30 collapse, WLOX-TV reports. The collapse on Highway 26 outside Lucedale in George County, which occurred during torrential rain brought by Hurricane Ida, caused…


Mississippi Nurses Report a Toxic Work Culture Growing Between Vaccinated and Unvaccinated

Describing a climate of vaccine shaming and bullying, two Mississippi nurses have reported once amicable work environments degenerate into a division between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated. One nurse in Jackson, Mississippi—who requested to remain anonymous—told The Epoch Times that when faced with the vaccine mandate at her hospital, she quit and took another job…


Crash Victim Recalls Terror After Mississippi Road Collapse

LUCEDALE, Miss.—A teenager said she could hear the terrifying sounds of other vehicles crashing around—and on top of—the pickup truck where she and her mother were trapped after the truck plunged into a dark, muddy pit when a Mississippi highway collapsed during torrential rain brought by Hurricane Ida. “I saw a black hole, then I…


Highway in Mississippi Collapses, Leaving at Least 2 People Dead: Officials

Two people died and 10 were injured when a highway in Mississippi collapsed following heavy rains from Hurricane Ida, now a tropical depression, said officials on Tuesday. The collapse affected portions of Highway 26 in George County, about 50 miles northeast of Biloxi, said highway patrol spokesman Calvin Robertson. A crevasse opened up on the road…


Mississippi’s New COVID-19 Order Requires Infected to Self-Isolate or Face Jail

Mississippi residents flouting the state’s newly imposed order for anyone infected with COVID-19 to isolate at home could face criminal charges and time behind bars. The Mississippi State Department of Health on Friday issued an order (pdf), with immediate effect, requiring anyone infected with COVID-19, including those fully vaccinated, to isolate for 10 days at…


12 GOP Governors Ask Supreme Court to Overturn Roe v. Wade

Twelve Republican governors urged the Supreme Court on Thursday to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade landmark ruling, in a major case related to an abortion law in Mississippi. “The Court’s decisions in Roe and Casey are prime examples of invading an area that has not been committed to the Federal Government and remains reserved to the States,” the amicus brief…


Pro-life Activists Think Upcoming Supreme Court Case Could Overturn Roe Decision

News Analysis Mississippi’s recent call for the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that made abortion lawful throughout the United States, has been warmly received by pro-life activists who say it could be the vehicle the court uses to finally right what they consider to be an egregious wrong. Mississippi’s…


Mississippi Asks Supreme Court to Overturn Roe v. Wade in Abortion Case

Mississippi’s attorney general asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to overturn the landmark abortion decision Roe v. Wade and argued that the practice shouldn’t be considered a constitutional right. “The conclusion that abortion is a constitutional right has no basis in text, structure, history, or tradition,” Attorney General Lynn Fitch, a Republican, told the…