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TUPELO • Todd Jordan and Victor Fleitas, Tupelo’s two mayoral candidates, painted different pictures of how they would respond to any future potential pandemic and how they would pick the city’s new police chief, during a Thursday night forum at the Link Centre in Tupelo. Jordan, the Republican candidate, and Fleitas, the Democratic candidate, answered questions related to health care, economic development and education. When asked if he would be willing to enact any local health protocols to prevent the spread of a deadly pandemic, Jordan stopped short of fully committing t...

17 hrs ago In this screengrab, moderator and Winter Institute Youth Engagement Manager Von Gordon, FWD.us Mississippi Director Alesha Judkins, Southern Poverty Law Center Staff Attorney Leslie Faith Jones and MacArthur Justice Center Director Cliff Johnson host a panel during systemic racism's impact on the criminal justice system on May 16 as part of the Committee for King's systemic racism online panel discussion. The discussion is the final panel of a monthly five-part series that began in January and wrapped up this week. TUPELO • After 35 years, the Committee for King (CFK) found an ad...

Close In this screengrab, moderator and Winter Institute Youth Engagement Manager Von Gordon, FWD.us Mississippi Director Alesha Judkins, Southern Poverty Law Center Staff Attorney Leslie Faith Jones and MacArthur Justice Center Director Cliff Johnson host a panel during systemic racism's impact on the criminal justice system on May 16 as part of the Committee for King's systemic racism online panel discussion. The discussion is the final panel of a monthly five-part series that began in January and wrapped up this week.

TUPELO • Beginning today, more than 164,600 pre-teens and teens in Mississippi are eligible to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. The Mississippi State Department of Health announced on Thursday that children ages 12 to 15 can begin receiving Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine across the state beginning immediately. Federal approval of the virus for pre-teens and teens was granted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday. "We're excited to announce our support for the immunization effort for kids 12 to 15 for kids against COVID," State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs sa...

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