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• Mississippi developer plans to move forward with data center plans, even as state declines to give ruling

  01-06-2026 23:36 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  A Mississippi company plans to move forward in building a private power plant and an artificial intelligence industrial campus. State utility regulators, though, declined to make a ruling on the project, calling the developer’s request for an opinion “premature” and “hypothetical.”The state’s two largest power companies are protesting the effort, arguing the project would c
  
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• Jackson bribery case defendants can plead at any time, despite judge’s deadline, law professor says

  01-06-2026 17:13 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  Hinds County District Attorney Jody Owens, former Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba and former Jackson City Council Member Aaron Banks declined to plead guilty by a federal judge’s Friday deadline on charges they face in an FBI operation that roiled Jackson officials in 2024. U.S. District Judge Daniel Jordan set the deadline last year in an effort to ensure orderly resolution of a complex case. An exp
  
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• Kosciusko to host multiple youth baseball tournaments this summer

  01-06-2026 14:20 via breezynews.com
  
  Kosciusko will once again welcome youth baseball teams to town this summer for a series of All-Star and state tournament games at Hugh Ellard Park.
  According to Parks and Recreation Director Todd Ables, later this month, Kosciusko will host the Dixie Youth 6U District Tournament, scheduled for June 19–20.
  Later in the summer, Kosciusko will also serve as a host site for two larger state tournaments, bringing a significant number of teams and games to the area.
  Upcoming Tournaments6U Distri
  
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• One Night in Mhoon Valley

  01-06-2026 14:00 via mississippitoday.org
  
  Two weeks before Halloween in 2009, Tameshia Shelton dialed 911 and stepped into the darkness outside her trailer in rural Clay County.
  Under a towering oak, her sister’s 21-year-old boyfriend lay face down, a gunshot wound through his chest.
  How Danelle Young died that night is a question that courts have wrestled with since 2015, when a judge sentenced Shelton, a mother of four with no previous criminal record, to life in prison for murder.
  That answer holds the key to her freedom.[00:0
  
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