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NAACP requests civil rights probe into Jackson water crisis, saying Mississippi has long discriminated against majority-Black capital

CNN By Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN The calls to quickly fix Jackson, Mississippi’s water system are growing louder, with the US Justice Department and NAACP demanding not just answers from the state and its capital city, but solutions. Days after the NAACP wrote Gov. Tate Reeves directly, the civil rights organization submitted a 25-page complaint

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Elijah McClain’s death caused by complications from ketamine injection following restraint, coroner says in amended autopsy report

KMGH, AURORA POLICE DEPT, CNN By Steve Almasy, CNN The autopsy report for Elijah McClain, an unarmed Black man who died while in police custody in Colorado three years ago, has been changed to update the cause of death from “undetermined” to “complications of ketamine administration following forcible restraint,” Adams County Chief Coroner Monica Broncucia-Jordan

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Hurricane Ian could be ‘something that we haven’t seen in our lifetime,’ Tampa forecaster says

CNN By Holly Yan, Jennifer Gray and Nouran Salahieh, CNN Hurricane Ian rapidly intensified Monday as it barreled toward Florida, threatening dangerous storm surges in places not used to getting hit directly by a hurricane. Florida could start feeling Ian’s wrath as early as Tuesday, with hurricane conditions potentially hitting the state Wednesday. Evacuation orders

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Brett Favre continued to pressure for volleyball facility funding even after being told it was possibly illegal, according to new filing

CNN, WAPT, WLBT By Hannah Sorisohn, CNN A series of text conversations between Pro Football Hall of Famer Brett Favre and former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant appear to show Favre repeatedly pressing the then-governor about funding the construction of a volleyball facility at the University of Southern Mississippi, even after Favre was told misuse of

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Former official pleads guilty in welfare fraud scheme where money was funneled to prominent Mississippians including Brett Favre

WLBT By Melissa Alonso and Dianne Gallagher, CNN A former top state official in Mississippi pleaded guilty Thursday to state and federal charges in connection to an embezzlement scheme that auditors say misused millions of welfare dollars, including funneling funds into projects linked to prominent Mississippians like former NFL star Brett Favre. Officials from the

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