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A sign encouraging people to vote absentee stands outside the Hinds County Courthouse in Jackson, Miss., Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020. The 2023 general election absentee ballots in a different part of Mississippi, Jones County, will be several days late because a candidate dropped out of a race on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023, and the ballot there had to be redone after a substitute candidate was named, according to Circuit Clerk Concetta Brooks. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

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Absentee ballots are late in 1 Mississippi county after a candidate is replaced because of illness
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press
Tue,09/26/23-7:26PM , 845 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Voters in one Mississippi county are waiting extra days for access to absentee ballots because a candidate dropped out of a race last week and his party named someone to take his place.
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With wife Elee Reeves at his side, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves speaks in Jackson, Miss., after winning the Republican primary on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023. Records show Tate Reeves received a $10,000 campaign contribution from a shipping company executive in 2020, several days before the state announced incentives for a division of the company to expand its operation in Mississippi. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

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Mississippi announced incentives for company days after executive gave campaign money to governor
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press
Tue,09/26/23-1:33PM , 588 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi announced financial incentives for a shipbuilder to expand in Gulfport in 2020, days after the president of the shipbuilder's parent company made a $10,000 campaign contribution to Republican Gov. Tate Reeves, records show.
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Hollis Watkins, national chairman of the Mississippi Freedom Summer 50th Anniversary conference, speaks at Tougaloo College in Jackson, Miss., Wednesday, June 25, 2014. Watkins was a longtime civil rights activist who was 82 when he died Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, at his home in Clinton, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)

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Hollis Watkins, who was jailed multiple times for challenging segregation in Mississippi, dies at 82
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press
Fri,09/22/23-3:43PM , 548 Reads
JACKSON, Miss.
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Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, right, announces a proposal that he says should alleviate financial problems for hospitals during a news conference Thursday in Jackson. Dr. Alan Jones, associate vice chancellor for clinical affairs at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, listens at left. (Associated Press)

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Reeves presents hospital aid plan
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS - Associated Press
Fri,09/22/23-2:00AM , 806 Reads
JACKSON — Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves released a proposal Thursday aimed at helping some of the state’s financially struggling hospitals, even as the Democrat who is trying to unseat him has spent months hammering Reeves for opposing Medicaid expansion in one of the poorest states in the nation.
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