Hood meets with DOJ to discuss tech issues
Earlier this week Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood met with U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, other AG’s from across the nation and the Department of...
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Emmett Till investigation re-opened
by Alex Paton
It’s been 63 years since the death of Emmett Till and the Department of Justice has re-opened the investigation. In the U.S. Attorney General’s report...
AG Sessions appoints four Assistant U.S. Attorneys to Mississippi
by Alex Paton
Mississippi is getting four additional Assistant U.S. Attorneys. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst announced that the Department of Justice is taking a...
Indictments made against fentanyl traffickers in Mississippi and North Dakota
by Sarah Ulmer
The Justice Department announced today that federal grand juries in the Southern District of Mississippi and the District of North Dakota returned indictments, unsealed yesterday,...
Community-based treatment dire to Mississippi mental health
Discussions have circulated across the public recently regarding The Mississippi Department of Mental Health’s announcement that 650 jobs were having to be cut, given their...
Justice department sues Mississippi over discrimination against adults with mental illness
WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today filed a complaint against the state of Mississippi, alleging that it violates the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and...
Mississippi based banking business fined over 10 million
WASHINGTON— BancorpSouth, based in Tupelo, has been fined $10.6 million after allegations of redlining, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...
Fighting Crimes Against Children: AG’s Task Force Gets Federal Money to Keep Up the Fight
by kim
JACKSON, Miss.–At any given moment there could be over 2,000 people in Mississippi downloading child pornography. That number comes from Atty. Gen. Jim Hood’s office,...