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Gov. Tate Reeves is set to provide updates about Mississippi’s coronavirus response on Wednesday.

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Mississippi Senate Minority Leader Derrick T. Simmons (D-District 12) and House Minority Leader Robert Johnson III (D-District 94) sent a letter to Governor Tate Reeves (R-Miss.) asking him to send members of the Mississippi National Guard to the Presidential Inauguration on January 20, 2021. Dear Governor Reeves, We respectfully request that you […]

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – On Friday, Governor Tate Reeves released a statement in regards to the COVID-19 vaccine plan.  Vaccines are rolling out across the US. That’s great news. The bad news: it’s not going nearly fast enough (at least here). I said that on Monday, and I said we were working on plans to eliminate […]

Gov. Tate Reeves is set to provide updates Wednesday about Mississippi’s coronavirus response.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana communities battered by Hurricane Ida faced a new danger as they began the massive task of clearing debris and repairing damage from the storm: the possibility of weeks without power in the stifling, late-summer heat. Ida ravaged the region’s power grid, leaving the entire city of New Orleans and hundreds […]

JACKSON, MISS. (AP) — Republican Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves says college football is “essential,” even during the coronavirus pandemic. Reeves’ remarks Tuesday echoed those of President Donald Trump and his Republican counterpart in Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis. They came the same day that two of college football’s five power conferences announced that teams won’t play […]

Text messages entered Monday into the state’s ongoing civil lawsuit over the welfare scandal reveal that former Gov. Phil Bryant pushed to make NFL legend Brett Favre’s volleyball idea a reality. The texts show that the then-governor even guided Favre on how to write a funding proposal so that it could be accepted by the […]

Gov. Tate Reeves is set to provide updates Monday about Mississippi’s coronavirus response.

JACKSON, Miss. — Gov. Tate Reeves is declaring a state of emergency ahead of approaching tropical storm systems in the Gulf of Mexico. Tropical storms Laura and Marco are expected to make landfall early next week. Weather experts say there is a lack of predictability with the path the storms could take. “This has happened […]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi has reported one of its highest single-day increases in coronavirus-related deaths. The announcement comes soon after Gov. Tate Reeves said he thinks the state is beginning to turn a corner in the coronavirus pandemic. The Mississippi State Department of Health reported 1,081 new confirmed cases and 45 deaths on Wednesday, […]