Gov. Tate Reeves says Mississippi ‘not going to participate’ in potential national lockdown

Gunfire erupted at a Mississippi biker bar, sending 11 individuals to hospitals with injuries. The mass shooting took place at the SMS Biker Club on Highway 8 in Grenada around 1:30 a.m.

Denver Mayor Michael Hancock apologized to critics who have pointed to his Wednesday travel plans visiting his family in Mississippi as hypocritical after he advised Coloradans to hold “virtual gatherings” in light of the escalating coronavirus pandemic. Hancock came under fire after reports surfaced that he boarded a flight to Houston Wednesday morning, before heading to Mississippi to visit his wife and daughter.

Despite his own warnings about traveling over the Thanksgiving holiday, Denver Mayor Michael Hancock reportedly boarded a plane to Houston Wednesday, as the Colorado capital sees a record spike in coronavirus cases. Hancock first boarded a flight to Houston before heading to Mississippi to meet his wife and visit their daughter, according to local reporting by NBC 9 News.

In 32 years of police service, Memphis Police Harbor Patrolman Michael Duffee, who stands guard by the Mississippi River, has received three lifesaving medals for keeping people alive. His latest commendation came from rescuing a suicidal man on the officer's day off.

Dave McNary Film ReporterAlfre Woodard will star as civil rights and voting rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer in a forthcoming limited series for ABC Studios, Variety has learned exclusively.Woodard is executive producing along with Carl Beverly, Sarah Timbermann, Roderick Spencer and Harry Belafonte, while Gina Belafonte serves as a producer.Hamer rose from sharecropping in the Mississippi Delta to become a driving force in the voting rights movement, a prominent voice for civil rights and

Asya Branch is still stunned that she was crowned the winner of Miss USA’s 2020 pageant.  The competition aired on Nov. 9 after being postponed months from its original spring date due to the coronavirus pandemic.The live show took place at Elvis Presley’s Graceland in Memphis, Tenn.The 22-year-old was crowned by Miss USA 2019 Cheslie Kryst, 29.

When President George W. Bush was elected, Republican Sen.Trent Lott of Mississippi became Senate majority leader with the Texan's January 20, 2001 inauguration.

GILLSBURG, Miss. -- Lynyrd Skynyrd, the rock band famous for “Sweet Home Alabama" and “Free Bird,” now has highway signs pointing to the site of the Mississippi plane crash that claimed the lives of some of its members.Fans gathered Sunday as the Mississippi Department of Transportation unveiled exit signs from Interstate 55 near McComb and state Highway 568 near Gillsburg, the Enterprise-Journal reported.The signs provide direction toward a monument commemorating the Oct.

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A surge in cases and hospitalizations in Mississippi due to the novel coronavirus has depleted ICU bed availability in Jackson, the state’s capital, according to the Mississippi State Health Officer Dr.Thomas Dobbs.  “Zero ICU beds in Jackson. Very few elsewhere.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVNiecy Nash (Claws) is set to co-star opposite Adrienne Warren in ABC’s limited series The Women of the Movement, from creator/writer Marissa Jo Cerar and a producing team that includes Jay-Z, Will Smith and Aaron Kaplan.Nash will play Alma, Emmett Till’s grandmother.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterNiecy Nash has joined the cast of the upcoming ABC limited anthology series “Women of the Movement,” Variety has learned.The series will tell the story of key female figures in the Civil Rights Movement. Season 1 will focus on Mamie Till-Mobley, the mother of Emmett Till.

Police have captured the suspect accused of fatally shooting an Arkansas officer during a car stop late Thursday, officials confirmed to Fox News.  Officers and agents from the U.S. Marshals Service, Arkansas State Police and other law enforcement partners captured Latarius Howard, who also goes by the name “L.T.Truitt,” and a second person in Mississippi, Arkansas State Police confirmed to local news outlet WREG on Friday morning.

Lucille Bridges was the mother of Ruby Bridges, who made history in 1960 when she began attending an all-white school in New Orleans.Civil Rights trailblazerBridges, who had to leave school after eighth grade to help her sharecropper parents, was determined that her own children would get good educations.

The prospect of a Joe Biden presidency was a deal breaker, one Republican state lawmaker in Mississippi appeared to say last week. In a since-deleted Twitter message, state Rep.

Dave McNary Film ReporterJamie Foxx will produce and star in Amazon Studios’ “The Burial,” centered on the legal battle over a funeral home chain during the 1990s.“The Burial” is based on Jonathan Harr’s 1999 article in the New Yorker about the contractual dispute case brought against funeral home executive Ray Loewen by Mississippi businessman Jeremiah O’Keefe, who hired the flamboyant attorney Willie Gary.

the 2020 Presidential election, there was another American competition getting ready. After being postponed for months, the annual Miss USA pageant took place Monday night in Memphis, Tennessee.