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- Higher education officials consider top picks for JSU’s next president
Officials would not say how many people applied to be president of Jackson State. They plan to invite top candidates to the campus for interviews in April.
- Lawmakers send bill to the governor to help rural hospitals open new services
A bill cleared the Legislature on Wednesday that would temporarily ease state approval requirements for rural hospitals, allowing them to add new services or make costly upgrades as lawmakers aim to help struggling facilities provide needed care and boost revenue.
- Judge orders pause on Medicaid recoupments from Greenwood Leflore Hospital
A Hinds County Chancery judge on Wednesday ordered the Mississippi Division of Medicaid to temporarily stop collecting money owed by Greenwood Leflore Hospital after the hospital said resuming the recoupments would likely force the Delta hospital to close. The public hospital and Mississippi Medicaid have been locked in a dispute since last summer about how
- Prison deaths oversight bill falls victim to deadline day in Legislature
On Wednesday, the last day for action on bills originating from the other chamber, House Bill 1739 calling for more oversight of prison deaths did not come up for a vote in the Senate.
- A Mississippi death penalty jury was seated. With one Black juror.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear an appeal this month from death row inmate Terry Pitchford who was denied relief by the Mississippi Supreme Court after his attorneys claimed Black people were illegally struck from his jury. A Mississippi Today analysis finds that over the last decade the state's highest court hasn’t provided relief in a single such claim, allowing prosecutors’ strikes of Black prospective jurors to stand in every case it has considered.