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TUPELO, Miss. - A plane has been circling over Mississippi, since early Saturday morning, and the pilot is threatening to intentionally crash into the store, reports say.According to WTVA, Tupelo Police said they received reports starting at 5 a.m. about a plane flying over the Northeast Mississippi town.

JACKSON, Miss. - When Houston resident Mary Ozan watched the Jackson, Mississippi water crisis unfolding on the news, she knew she had to do something."As soon as I saw it, I didn’t give it a thought. I just told my husband, I said, ‘We need to bring some water,’" Ozan said.A day later, Mary and her husband Gene were unloading three pallets of water in a Walmart parking lot in Jackson at a water distribution event Wednesday.Video filmed by James Haynes Jr.

JACKSON, Miss. - Roughly 150,000 people are still without safe drinking water in Mississippi’s capital city days after Jackson’s water system partially failed. The situation is so dire, Mississippi officials are telling residents to shower with their mouths closed."You can shower or bathe, but please make sure in the shower that your mouth is not open," Jim Craig, Mississippi’s Director of Health Protection, said at a Wednesday news conference.The city water system partially failed early this week after Pearl River flooding exacerbated longstanding problems in one of two water-treatment plants.Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba said Jackson’s water system is troubled by short staffing and "decades of deferred maintenance." He said the influx of water from torrential rain changed the chemical composition needed for treatment, which slowed the process of pushing water out to customers.A city news release said the main water-treatment plant had "challenges with water chemistry" Wednesday, which led to a drop in output of water.

Gov. Tate Reeves (Photo by Brandon Dill/Getty Images) JACKSON, Miss. - Mississippi Gov.

JACKSON, Miss. – Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves is scheduled to sign a bill Thursday to ban transgender athletes from competing on girls or women’s sports teams.

JACKSON, Miss. – Mississippi Republican Gov. Tate Reeves said Thursday he will soon sign a bill to ban transgender athletes from competing on girls' or women's sports teams in the state's schools and universities.

Texas and Mississippi announced yesterday that they were ending mask mandates and opening indoor businesses after a year of restrictions because of COVID-19.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - With a stroke of the governor’s pen, Mississippi is retiring the last state flag in the U.S.

JACKSON, Miss. – The young activists who launched a protest movement after George Floyd’s death are bringing fresh energy to a long-simmering debate about the Confederate battle emblem that white supremacists embedded within the Mississippi state flag more than 125 years ago.Anti-racism protests have toppled Confederate statues and monuments across the United States in recent days, and even NASCAR banned the display of the rebel flag. But Mississippi has been a holdout for years in displaying the emblem in the upper-left corner of its banner.Republican Gov.

NEW YORK – In Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti has instituted a shutdown on a city of nearly 4 million people and threatened uncooperative business owners with power shutoffs and arrest.