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In recent months, city attorneys have filed lawsuits against the owners of three apartment complexes, including the Grand Chateau. The complex has become an early test of Jackson’s more aggressive approach to deal with landlords accused of contributing to blight.

The first hurricane of the Atlantic season was forecast to intensify rapidly and cause dangerous conditions in the Florida Panhandle, southern Alabama and southern Mississippi when it makes landfall late Friday or early Saturday.

John Grisham, the author of more than 50 consecutive No. 1 bestsellers including two works of nonfiction, was the keynote speaker at Mississippi Today’s 10th Anniversary Celebration.

Any suspension of the federal gasoline tax would require an act of Congress, and a president cannot unilaterally suspend the federal tax.

Laurene Powell Jobs and Darren Walker say it’s important to invest in people who are building sustainable community solutions. The philanthropists say that’s why they put resources into journalism in Mississippi.

Authorities say the drug and gun trafficking crackdown will continue in other parts of north Mississippi.

Last month, an inspector noted ongoing issues at SR1 College Preparatory and STEM Academy in Canton.

After Flowers was convicted in a sixth trial, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned it and a state judge dismissed capital murder charges against him.

The dismissal means this judicial district has seen seven people freed from prison after courts overturned their murder convictions —all prosecuted under former district attorney Forrest Allgood.