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Bird flu detected in Noxubee County chickens

By GWEN DILWORTH - MISSISSIPPI TODAY GWEN DILWORTH - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Fri,03/14/25-6:10PM, 162 Reads 5,461 Statewide
Highly pathogenic avian influenza – commonly known as bird flu – has been detected in a commercial chicken flock in Noxubee County.
Birds from the infected flock, which were being raised for meat, have not entered the food system.
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The recently opened Roses department store replaces the Food Depot grocery store, located at 3188 W. Northside Drive in the Northwest Junction Shopping Center in Jackson, Tuesday, March 11, 2025. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today

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This mayoral candidate fought for grocery stores. Why are so many Jacksonians caught in food deserts?

By MAYA MILLER - MISSISSIPPI TODAY MAYA MILLER - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Fri,03/14/25-6:06PM, 155 Reads 10,283 Statewide
Food Depot is just one in a list of closures that has Jacksonians traveling miles for groceries.
In a shopping center known as the Northwest Junction sits a KFC, a wings restaurant, Rose’s, a discount shopping store, and a medical cannabis dispensary. What’s noticeably missing? A grocery store.
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Senate’s attempt to revive its education agenda DOA in Mississippi House

By FRANK CORDER - MAGNOLIA TRIBUNE FRANK CORDER - MAGNOLIA TRIBUNE
Fri,03/14/25-6:02PM, 132 Reads 5,165 Statewide
Speaker Jason White says there’s no need to send a “milquetoast, very lame Senate Education agenda” back to the House after the Senate “wholeheartedly rejected” the House’s education freedom measures.
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Mississippi State Rep. Kevin Felsher listens as a fellow lawmaker speaks during a legislative session at the State Capitol in Jackson, Miss., on Feb. 12, 2025. Felsher is the author of a proposed bill to establish paid parental leave for state employees. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today

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Legislature sends paid family leave bill to governor

By SOPHIA PAFFENROTH AND GWEN DILWORTH - MISSISSIPPI TODAY SOPHIA PAFFENROTH AND GWEN DILWORTH - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Fri,03/14/25-5:58PM, 133 Reads 5,036 Statewide
Mississippi women who work in government don’t get a single day of paid time off after giving birth or adopting a child. That’s about to change.
A bill that cleared the Legislature Friday will give six weeks of paid family leave to primary caregivers who are state employees. It now heads to the governor to be signed into law.
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