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Indianola officer is suspended without pay in child’s shooting, faces more legal trouble
By MINA CORPUZ - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Fri,06/16/23-12:16PM , 466 Reads 8,157 Statewide
Nearly a month after an Indianola police officer was accused of shooting an 11-year-old boy in the chest, the officer will continue his suspension from the force without pay and faces additional legal action.
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‘It’s so much a death sentence’: Stroke victim waited 90 minutes for an ambulance in Jackson.
By MINA CORPUZ - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Thu,06/15/23-11:00AM , 610 Reads 7,480 Statewide
Donna Echols had just returned to her north Jackson home from her eldest son’s fairytale wedding in the Bahamas and expected to greet the groom’s father who had stayed behind to watch the house and her pets.

What she didn’t expect was the start of an emotional rollercoaster.
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Attorney Trent Walker speaks at a public hearing Saturday, June 10, 2023, at Pilgrim Rest M.B. Church in Rankin County. He is representing Michael Corey Jenkins, who says he was shot in the mouth by a Rankin County deputy. The FBI is now investigating the deputies' arrests of both Jenkins, 32, and Eddie Terrell Parker, 35. Credit: Jerry Mitchell/Mississippi Today

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Rankin sheriff, deputies face $400M lawsuit in alleged torture of Black men
By MINA CORPUZ - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Tue,06/13/23-1:28PM , 709 Reads 9,512 Statewide
A $400 million federal civil rights lawsuit filed Monday on behalf of two men allegedly beaten and tortured by Rankin County sheriff’s deputies during what attorneys say was an unlawful arrest earlier this year says the department has a pattern of excessive force against Black people.
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Members of the crowd listens as those affected by the ongoing water crisis in Jackson, Miss. share their experience with the issue during a Moral Monday rally, held by the Poor People’s Campaign, outside of the Governor's Mansion in Jackson, Miss., Monday, Sept. 26, 2022. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today

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New law cracks down on freedom of speech, but just in Jackson, lawsuit says
By MINA CORPUZ - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Mon,06/05/23-4:44PM , 579 Reads 10,741 Statewide
A federal
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