Mississippi
Club for Growth launches Mississippi ad campaign backing ‘Mississippi Education Freedom Act’
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The conservative group Club for Growth began running ads on January 12, 2026, urging Mississippi lawmakers to pass House Bill 2, the “Mississippi Education Freedom Act,” a wide-ranging education proposal introduced January 7 by House Speaker Jason White and Rep. Jansen Owen. The bill would establish state-funded education accounts initially prioritized for lower-income families and would also loosen public-school transfer rules and expand charter-school access.
Zachary Lavel Jackson Jr., 29, faces first- and second-degree murder charges after authorities discovered pieces of his mother Lana Brown Bradley's body at her Natchez home. Deputies found Jackson attempting to flush flesh down a toilet during a welfare check on April 4. Bradley, 62, had planned to evict her youngest son before her death.
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Randall Smith faces a first-degree murder trial in Mississippi for shooting his college roommate Flynn Brown during a dispute over donuts in December 2022. Smith allegedly stuffed Brown's body into a box and dragged it down seven flights of stairs to his car. Witnesses described seeing blood and hearing dragging noises.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday heard arguments in a case brought by Mississippi street preacher Gabriel Olivier, who is asking to move forward with a federal civil-rights challenge to a Brandon, Mississippi ordinance that restricts where he may preach outside a city amphitheater. Olivier, convicted and fined in 2021 for violating the rule after preaching outside a designated protest area, says the law infringes his First Amendment rights and that he should be able to seek protection against future enforcement despite his past conviction.