Emily Wagster Pettus
@ewagsterpettus.bsky.social
Senior editor @mississippitoday.org. Former @ap. Cat person. German speaker but likely to mess up der/die/das usw. Hotty Toddy.
Federal judge orders five-day “humanitarian” restoration of water at an apartment complex in Mississippi’s capital city mississippitoday.org/2025/08/08/j...
Judge orders five-day water restoration at south Jackson apartments - Mississippi Today
A federal judge on Friday ordered water to be turned back on for five days at a south Jackson apartment complex where the utility company shut it off July 23 because the complex owner has $422,000 of ...
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August 9, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Federal judge orders five-day “humanitarian” restoration of water at an apartment complex in Mississippi’s capital city mississippitoday.org/2025/08/08/j...
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Son like father: Vernon Dahmer Jr. was a patriot
Column: Vernon Dahmer Jr., the son of a voting rights maryr, was, like his father, a patriot.
Column: Vernon Dahmer Jr., the son of a voting rights maryr, was, like his father, a patriot.
Son like father: Vernon Dahmer Jr. was a patriot
Column: Vernon Dahmer Jr., the son of a voting rights maryr, was, like his father, a patriot.
mississippitoday.org
July 31, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Son like father: Vernon Dahmer Jr. was a patriot
Column: Vernon Dahmer Jr., the son of a voting rights maryr, was, like his father, a patriot.
Column: Vernon Dahmer Jr., the son of a voting rights maryr, was, like his father, a patriot.
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Lawmaker probing Mississippi’s prisons finds inmates suffering from treatable diseases as corrections asks for more money
'When they beg me for supplies because they make them reuse colostomy bags over and over that don’t fit, when they are bowel and bladder incontinent and they don’t provide…
'When they beg me for supplies because they make them reuse colostomy bags over and over that don’t fit, when they are bowel and bladder incontinent and they don’t provide…
Lawmaker probing Mississippi’s prisons finds inmates suffering from treatable diseases as corrections asks for more money
'When they beg me for supplies because they make them reuse colostomy bags over and over that don’t fit, when they are bowel and bladder incontinent and they don’t provide diapers to them it is hard for me to hear that (MDOC) feels that they provide adequate care.' -- House Corrections Chairwoman Becky Currie
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June 19, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Lawmaker probing Mississippi’s prisons finds inmates suffering from treatable diseases as corrections asks for more money
'When they beg me for supplies because they make them reuse colostomy bags over and over that don’t fit, when they are bowel and bladder incontinent and they don’t provide…
'When they beg me for supplies because they make them reuse colostomy bags over and over that don’t fit, when they are bowel and bladder incontinent and they don’t provide…
apnews.com/article/trum... AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists
AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists
A federal judge has ordered the White House to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events.
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April 8, 2025 at 9:27 PM
apnews.com/article/trum... AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists
apnews.com/article/miss... Robert Clark, Mississippi's first Black lawmaker after Civil Rights era, dies at 96
Robert Clark, Mississippi's first Black lawmaker after Civil Rights era, dies at 96
Mississippi’s first Black lawmaker of the 20th century died Tuesday. Robert G. Clark's son and successor, state Rep.
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March 4, 2025 at 7:32 PM
apnews.com/article/miss... Robert Clark, Mississippi's first Black lawmaker after Civil Rights era, dies at 96
apnews.com/article/wome... Women represent half of the US. But they sometimes lack clout in states’ #budget and tax talks. #msleg
Women represent half of the US. But they sometimes lack clout in budget and tax talks
Women represent half of the U.S. population. But it’s still rare in some states for female lawmakers to have leading roles in budget matters.
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February 2, 2025 at 9:52 PM
apnews.com/article/wome... Women represent half of the US. But they sometimes lack clout in states’ #budget and tax talks. #msleg
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NEW for @mississippifreepress.org | Mississippi no longer leads the nation in childhood vaccines after a judge's 2023 order said the state must allow for religious exemptions. The state fell from 1st to 3rd place during the 2023-2024 school year.
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Mississippi No Longer Leads Nation in Childhood Vaccines
Mississippi no longer leads the nation in childhood vaccines, falling to third place after a judge ordered the state to allow religious exemptions.
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January 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
NEW for @mississippifreepress.org | Mississippi no longer leads the nation in childhood vaccines after a judge's 2023 order said the state must allow for religious exemptions. The state fell from 1st to 3rd place during the 2023-2024 school year.
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www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-...
apnews.com/article/supr... Supreme Court leaves in place Mississippi’s voting ban for people convicted of some crimes
Supreme Court leaves in place Mississippi’s voting ban for people convicted of some crimes
The Supreme Court has left in place Mississippi’s Jim Crow-era practice of removing voting rights from people convicted of certain felonies, including nonviolent crimes such as forgery and timber thef...
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January 27, 2025 at 10:42 PM
apnews.com/article/supr... Supreme Court leaves in place Mississippi’s voting ban for people convicted of some crimes
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If you’re ever curious about what Germany allows, here is the document I read today.
www.verfassungsschutz.de/SharedDocs/p...
www.verfassungsschutz.de/SharedDocs/p...
www.verfassungsschutz.de
January 25, 2025 at 5:40 PM
If you’re ever curious about what Germany allows, here is the document I read today.
www.verfassungsschutz.de/SharedDocs/p...
www.verfassungsschutz.de/SharedDocs/p...
That time in 2012 when #Mississippi state Rep. Steve Holland jokingly proposed renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. He was protesting anti-immigrant sentiment in politics. #msleg www.djournal.com/news/state-r...
State Rep. Steve Holland: 'Gulf of America' bill was a joke
By Jeff Amy/The Associated Press
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January 8, 2025 at 12:02 AM
That time in 2012 when #Mississippi state Rep. Steve Holland jokingly proposed renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. He was protesting anti-immigrant sentiment in politics. #msleg www.djournal.com/news/state-r...
President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to several people, including the late civil right activist Fannie Lou Hamer of #Mississippi. Accepting Hamer’s medal on behalf of her family was her niece, Doris Hamer Richardson.
January 4, 2025 at 7:25 PM
President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to several people, including the late civil right activist Fannie Lou Hamer of #Mississippi. Accepting Hamer’s medal on behalf of her family was her niece, Doris Hamer Richardson.
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I continue to be deeply moved by this statement to the heavens by President Carter.
December 30, 2024 at 2:30 PM
I continue to be deeply moved by this statement to the heavens by President Carter.
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BREAKING: Former President Jimmy Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and the longest-living chief executive in U.S. history, has died. He was 100. apnews.com/article/jimm...
December 29, 2024 at 9:25 PM
BREAKING: Former President Jimmy Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and the longest-living chief executive in U.S. history, has died. He was 100. apnews.com/article/jimm...
apnews.com/article/jame... Civil rights icon James Meredith is honored in his #Mississippi hometown
Civil rights icon James Meredith is honored in his Mississippi hometown
A new historical marker has been unveiled in the hometown of civil rights icon James Meredith. He is a Black man who fought white supremacy by integrating the University of Mississippi in 1962.
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December 23, 2024 at 6:02 PM
apnews.com/article/jame... Civil rights icon James Meredith is honored in his #Mississippi hometown
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In June, I drove up to Sebastopol, MS to interview Brandy Moore, a mother of four who was recently arrested and facing a possible 20-year prison sentence. Her crime: using drugs while around 15-weeks pregnant in 2019. At the time, she was considering an abortion, which was still legal then.
December 12, 2024 at 4:37 PM
In June, I drove up to Sebastopol, MS to interview Brandy Moore, a mother of four who was recently arrested and facing a possible 20-year prison sentence. Her crime: using drugs while around 15-weeks pregnant in 2019. At the time, she was considering an abortion, which was still legal then.
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San Francisco names street for Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal, who captured the iconic Iwo Jima photo mynorthwest.com/4018949/san-...
San Francisco names street for Associated Press photographer who captured the iconic Iwo Jima photo
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A photojournalist who captured one of the most enduring images of World War II — the U.S. Marines raising the flag on the Japanese
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December 12, 2024 at 6:28 PM
San Francisco names street for Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal, who captured the iconic Iwo Jima photo mynorthwest.com/4018949/san-...
apnews.com/article/miss... Judge declares mistrial after jury says it cannot reach a verdict in the killing of a gay University of #Mississippi student
Judge declares mistrial after jury deadlocks over killing of gay University of Mississippi student
A judge has declared a mistrial in the killing of a University of Mississippi student who was prominent in the local LGBTQ+ community.
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December 12, 2024 at 3:01 AM
apnews.com/article/miss... Judge declares mistrial after jury says it cannot reach a verdict in the killing of a gay University of #Mississippi student
apnews.com/article/miss... Jury considers charges against man in killing of University of #Mississippi student
Jury considers charges against man in killing of Ole Miss student
Jurors are deliberating in the trial of a man charged with killing a University of Mississippi student who was well-known in the local LGBTQ+ community.
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December 11, 2024 at 6:15 PM
apnews.com/article/miss... Jury considers charges against man in killing of University of #Mississippi student
apnews.com/article/miss... Man on trial in University of #Mississippi student's death lied to investigators, Oxford police chief says
Man on trial in Ole Miss student's death lied to investigators, police chief says
Police became convinced they were investigating a crime rather than a voluntarily missing person two weeks after a University of Mississippi student disappeared.
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December 11, 2024 at 2:14 AM
apnews.com/article/miss... Man on trial in University of #Mississippi student's death lied to investigators, Oxford police chief says
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I wrote about the case last week.
The reporter, 19, followed protesters into the president's office, took photos, sent feeds.
I examined 40 pages of internal Slack messages, interviewed several witnesses - and found no evidence he incited or participated in the protest www.cjr.org/getting-the-...
The reporter, 19, followed protesters into the president's office, took photos, sent feeds.
I examined 40 pages of internal Slack messages, interviewed several witnesses - and found no evidence he incited or participated in the protest www.cjr.org/getting-the-...
Should a Student Reporter Face Prosecution for Embedding with Protesters?
Dilan Gohill won an award for his work at the Stanford Daily, but his coverage of campus protests has set university officials against him.
www.cjr.org
December 10, 2024 at 1:41 AM
I wrote about the case last week.
The reporter, 19, followed protesters into the president's office, took photos, sent feeds.
I examined 40 pages of internal Slack messages, interviewed several witnesses - and found no evidence he incited or participated in the protest www.cjr.org/getting-the-...
The reporter, 19, followed protesters into the president's office, took photos, sent feeds.
I examined 40 pages of internal Slack messages, interviewed several witnesses - and found no evidence he incited or participated in the protest www.cjr.org/getting-the-...
apnews.com/article/clar... Clarke Reed, a former #Mississippi GOP chairman who helped Gerald Ford win the 1976 Republican nomination, has died at 96
Clarke Reed, who helped Gerald Ford win the 1976 Republican nomination, has died at 96
Clarke Reed, a Mississippi businessman who helped build the Republican Party across the South, has died.
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December 10, 2024 at 3:18 AM
apnews.com/article/clar... Clarke Reed, a former #Mississippi GOP chairman who helped Gerald Ford win the 1976 Republican nomination, has died at 96
Christmas tree lighting helper
December 8, 2024 at 7:07 PM
Christmas tree lighting helper
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Here's a starter pack with staff from The Associated Press. I have verified that all these people are my colleagues at AP
November 22, 2024 at 3:35 PM
Here's a starter pack with staff from The Associated Press. I have verified that all these people are my colleagues at AP