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Initially, the company bought a vacant power plant in Southaven and set up natural gas turbines to fuel its data centers in Memphis. It has since announced that it was investing a total of $20 billion to build a data center in Mississippi.

The Lexington Board of Aldermen appointed David Simmons police chief on May 5, the fourth person in the role in the past six months.

Americans for Contraception, the group touring a big inflatable IUD, is making its way across the South in honor of the anniversary of a 1965 U.S. Supreme Court decision that established a constitutional right to contraception.

A planned $1-billion Amazon data center in Clinton will be in the former Delphi auto parts plant that once employed almost 300 people but has sat mostly empty since 2009.

Mississippians impacted by Winter Storm Fern have until Wednesday to apply for federal funding through FEMA’s Individual Assistance program.

The Mississippi Legislature gave Amazon an express route through well-established regulatory checkpoints. The Public Service Commission has a much depleted role overseeing spending by Entergy Mississippi, Amazon’s power provider, in relation to the data centers. 

Of Amazon’s four announced data center facilities in Mississippi, the one in Canton is operating. The ones in Ridgeland, Vicksburg and Clinton are in the works.

Hyde-Smith has criticized Colom’s ties to national Democratic groups, highlighted her close relationship with President Donald Trump and, as former state agriculture commissioner, touted support for Mississippi farmers.

Mississippi courts have repeatedly grappled with allegations of discriminatory jury selection. The U.S. Supreme Court missed opportunity to fix that in recent ruling, a law professor writes.

Tameshia Shelton, a Clay County mother of four, is serving life in prison on a murder conviction. But the latest reporting from Jerry Mitchell and Madeline Nguyen has opened the door for her to get a long-awaited retrial. The investigative reporters join Emily Wagster Pettus to discuss their findings and the recent ruling from the Mississippi Supreme Court.