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Couple sheltered child after mom shot Bay police officers. ‘Mamma told me to give her the gun.’

Feb 1

If you read one thing today, please let it be this.

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got exclusive interviews with Motel 6 residents who helped keep an 8-year-old girl safe after her mother shot and killed two Mississippi police officers.

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They wiped blood from a little girl’s face and kept her safe until help arrived. In exclusive Sun Herald interviews, Motel 6 residents and staff tell what happened in the moments before and after a...

Jan 11

Help. There’s a cat on my keyboard and he refuses to go away!

Dec 23, 2022

Great news. And outstanding work to come, no doubt, from

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and this talented group of journalists.

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Dec 22, 2022

SO EXCITED!! Welcome to the LRN @nickjudin @MSFreePress @IsabelleTaft @MSTODAYnews @PatLohmann @source_nm @SamanthaSunne @FOX8NOLA and welcome back @CalebBedillion @DJournalnow

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So glad to know hurricane season ends at midnight. Goodbye and don't come back, please. Photo is from

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after Katrina. #CoastLife #hurricanes #mswx

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Oct 11, 2022

Replying to @MarshallRamsey @MSTODAYnews and @verified

@verified, really? You're missing out. Marshall is the best!

Oct 11, 2022

Love this straightforward #wx tweet. #justthefacts

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Oct 11, 2022

#BREAKING: #TropicalStorm #Karl has formed in the Bay of Campeche. Hurricane Hunters found a closed circulation with strong enough winds. Storm will largely remain in the same place before dissipating by Friday as the center moves inland. No threat here! #BeOn4 @wwltv

Oct 7, 2022

The latest from ProPublica's Local Reporting Network. An indepth investigation from

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“It breaks my heart when I have to take a teenager into custody,” a foster case investigator told me. “Because I know we have nowhere for them to go.” New from me, from @SearchlightNM and @propublica propublica.org/article/new-me

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Oct 5, 2022

A beautiful day for a boat ride. #MSGulfCoast

Wow. Now what, Twitter?

Mississippi’s Missing Search Warrants Prevent Scrutiny of No-Knock Raids

Oct 4, 2022

The secrecy surrounding search warrants is not only egregious. It also violates MS state rules. Justice and municipal courts need to do better. Thanks to

@CalebBedillion

@DJournalnow

@propublica

for pursuing this story.

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No-knock warrants authorize police to burst into someone’s home unannounced. Search warrants are supposed to be filed at the courthouse, but they’re missing from many of Mississippi’s justice courts.

ive been photographing the architecture of south louisiana for the past 8 years and am still struck by how the built environment symbolizes how we live with water. this is from outside of the levee protection system in 2020 vs now

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Sep 28, 2022

South Florida residents will from this day forward measure time Before Ian and After Ian, as we do on the MS Coast: BK and AK, before and after #HurricaneKatrina. Monster storms both. Can't stop thinking about what they are going through. 😢 #Hurricanes #Ian

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Sep 28, 2022

#Ian is going to forever alter how residents of Southwest Florida view hurricane risk. The level of devastation will require a lengthy and expensive rebuild that will last beyond a year in some communities. The power of Mother Nature is a constantly humbling thing to witness.

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Sep 27, 2022

The latest #IanHurricane advisory says this: ". . . the NHC intensity forecast continues to call for an extremely dangerous hurricane landfall for southwestern Florida." Watching, waiting. No stopping this. #WX

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pushing to unseal federal court records. #Winning #Sunshine

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Anna Wolfe

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Sep 26, 2022

A federal complaint against a defendant in the welfare case has been sealed for over two years. I wanted to know what was in it. So I petitioned to unseal the case. And won. And it contained a revelation. Story coming soon. #TheBackchannel

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11pm NHC track update. Shift east. Serious situation brewing for the Florida west coast. spaghettimodels.com #flwx #Ian

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The waiting game . . . The storm is not organized yet, so we don't know with any certainty where it's going. Potentially the Gulf, where it could grow into a monster. Watching this one from Texas to Florida.

Brett Favre: Will the media find out that we're using welfare funds intended to help the poorest residents of America's poorest state to build a volleyball center? Nancy New: Nah. Oh yeah, the governor is fully on board!

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five years later: mississippitoday.org/2022/09/13/phi

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Sep 12, 2022

Personal News: Today is my first day as an Audience Growth Producer for @Mcclatchy and @sunherald in my new home of Louisville, KY! I'm so pumped to work with this team and engage with readers across the Southeast! Send tips at ebroyles@sunherald.com.

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Sep 11, 2022

The possums are out and about around here! #MS

The first Jackson home to take on water in the 2022 Pearl River flood was also the first structure to see water 43 years ago when the river crested at 43 feet, in the historic 1979 Easter flood disaster, according to the Hinds county EOC. The home is on Rollingwood Drive.

State Farm will pay $100 million to feds over Hurricane Katrina insurance claims

Aug 26, 2022

Thinking of folks in Jackson as the Pearl River rises. Who remembers the great Easter flood of '79? Will never forget the sight of Parchman inmates bagging the levees under flood lights. It didn't work. Photos from

I wonder if man who filed this lawsuit and had to let it go,

@DickScruggs

, has heard the news. I'm also wondering what

@SlabbedNewMedia

thinks about all this. This case was filed 16+ years ago and resolution comes as the 17th anniversay of Hurricane Katrina approaches.

The settlement between State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. and the sisters, Cori and Keri Rigsby, also ends a lawsuit State Farm filed against them, alleging breach of their employment contracts, etc, for taking the insurer's records while they were adjusting Katrina claims.

This has been a loooong time coming. State Farm paying up over potential liability in Hurricane Katrina wind vs. water cases. Two whistle-blowing sisters are responsible for this unprecedented settlement. #hurricanes #insurance

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Two Mississippi Coast sisters who adjusted claims for State Farm will be awarded millions from the settlement for pursuing the whistle blower wind vs. water lawsuit. Here’s more.

I know this is a v. serious situation. On the other hand, Mama Nina (me 😬) is wondering if

remembered his sunscreen. Either way, the story’s going to be a Wednesday #mustread.

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Aug 9, 2022

Hung out with at least 500 other members of the LGBTQ+ community for 4.5 hours and was the 164th person to get the #monkeypox vaccine at Phoenix Bar in New Orleans. I’ll have a first person account tomorrow for @sunherald.

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Help gay bar owners fight life-threatening cancer, organized by Lysa Broussard

Aug 9, 2022

Thinking of Lynn and Tamara Koval this morning and hoping they get the support they need as both fight life-threatening illnesses. Please help if you can:

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She’s held fundraisers for countless others over the years at her… Lysa Broussard needs your support for Help gay bar owners fight life-threatening cancer

Avenging his cattle’s death, Mississippi farmer discovers a pollution loophole

Jul 13, 2022

Dead cattle, polluted water and a farm supply store that sells fertilizer nearby. The connection wasn't hard for farmer John Nowlin to make. So glad

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has told Nowlin's story. It's important. I hope it helps.

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While seeking recourse for his poisoned cattle, farmer John Adam Nowlin stumbled upon a gap in how water pollution is regulated.

Jun 29, 2022

Well, well. What do we have here? #mselex

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Jun 29, 2022

#BreakingNews: AP has called the GOP runoff race for Jackson County Sheriff Mike Ezell, who defeats longtime incumbent Steven Palazzo. Ezell will head to the November general election to fight for a US Congress seat, representing Southern Mississippi. Photo: @MaryPerezSH

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for winning photo of the year in the Mississippi Press Association's 2021 journalism contest. #waytogo

Gunn from MS House well on abortion ruling: 'This is where this started ... an end to this evil'

Jun 24, 2022

State Rep. Becky Currie, "who authored the House 15-week abortion ban that led to the Supreme Court overturning Roe, said lawmakers should have extended postpartum Medicaid coverage and should be working to help mothers and children," by

@GeoffPender

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Following the decision of the Mississippi abortion case, speaker and governor say challenge now is to help mothers and babies. Neither has offered a plan yet.

Triumph Gulf Coast Board Approved Projects

Jun 24, 2022

It would be even better if the agency put contracts online so Mississippians can see what return, if any, is promised on their investments. Florida's records are on its website.

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List of grant projects which have received a final vote of approval from the Triumph Gulf Coast Board for funding.

was cooperative and helpful in providing requested records for this story on how the Mississippi Legislature is spending money for economic development on the MS Gulf Coast.

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$53.3 Million. 33 Jobs. No Plan. That’s How Mississippi Lawmakers Are Spending BP Oil Spill Money.

Business leaders hoped the state would use money from the 2010 oil spill to transform Mississippi’s coastal economy. Instead, lawmakers are using much of it to fill gaps in local government budgets...

The Pink House is still open, while some clinics around the country have stopped performing abortions almost immediately (or stopped weeks ago in anticipation of this day). The trigger ban takes effect 10 days after the AG determines Roe has been overturned.

Twelve years since BP's oil spill "33 full-time equivalent jobs have been promised by the 24 projects for which Gulf Coast Restoration Fund grants have been finalized...Those projects have received $53.3 million." by

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$53.3 Million. 33 Jobs. No Plan. That’s How Mississippi Lawmakers Are Spending BP Oil Spill Money.

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Jun 8, 2022

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Jun 8, 2022

Our small but mighty newsroom won a McClatchy President’s Award for our coverage of Hurricane Ida! Nobody works harder than @sunherald reporters. Not pictured are these rockstars: @nrnaik20, @chasekaracostas, @calundmark, @vizjourno, @IsabelleTaft, @ibellamurray, @laurenwalck!