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M Clay Higgins, a Republican congressman from Louisiana, said he isn't going to the Washington, D.C., Mardi Gras festivities put on by the state's congressional delegation in late January because of covid-19 screening requirements being imposed on attendees.

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M Peter Sokolowski, editor-at-large of Merriam-Webster, said that in choosing "vaccine" as its 2021 word of the year, the dictionary publisher chose a word at the center of pandemic science and online searches as well as ongoing "debates regarding policy, politics and political affiliation."

PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi murder suspect who escaped police custody last week is back behind bars. Aceon Ja’shun Hopkins, 20, surrendered to a family friend in Neshoba County early Tuesday and was taken into custody, Jackson County Sheriff Mike Ezell said.

PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi officials are looking for a man who escaped from a hospital bathroom whil...

Mississippi officials are looking for a man who escaped from a hospital bathroom while under police guard and then was recorded on video changing into pilfered clothes.

Surveillance from a nearby hotel in Pascagoula shows Hopkins changing out of his hospital gown into a black hoodie and a blanket wrapped around his waist. Hopkins found the clothes from an unlocked car in the hotel parking lot.