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A city of Jackson Water Maintenance crew works to repair a broken waterline Match 6, 2021, on Pascagoula Street. Crews continue to repair the waterlines across the city in order to restore water to homes after severe winter storms crippled the city and state. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today

1 in 10 Mississippians had illegal contaminants in drinking water since 2018
By ALEX ROZIER - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Fri,12/03/21-4:24PM, 25 Reads 1,469 Statewide
Since 2018, more than one in ten Mississippians received drinking water from their public utility that had an illegal level of contaminants in it, according to state and federal health data.
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Shykeria, Doria and Skylar play inside a hula hoop at the Boys and Girls Club Walker unit in south Jackson on Sept. 14, 2020. Credit: Anna Wolfe

Child care centers may finally receive up to over $400,000 in pandemic relief grants
By ANNA WOLFE - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Fri,12/03/21-4:12PM, 22 Reads 1,463 Statewide
After cries from struggling child care providers, many of whom were forced to stay open during the pandemic even while schools closed, Mississippi has started taking federal grant applications from day care centers.
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Another Mississippi inmate asks state to set execution date
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press
Fri,12/03/21-4:08PM, 15 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi death row inmate says he wants the state to start planning his execution — a request that comes weeks after another Mississippi prisoner surrendered appeals and was put to death.
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Federal judge: Mississippi eviction law unconstitutional
By LEAH WILLINGHAM - Associated Press/Report for America
Fri,12/03/21-4:06PM, 15 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal judge has declared that a Mississippi law allowing landlords to seize tenants' belongings during the eviction process is unconstitutional.
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