Local News
Dave Martin
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AP
A major study found fish populations fell by about 60%, while krill that whales and others eat plummeted 72%. Researchers said there’s no other cause they could find except the BP oil spill.
The Nature Conservancy
Olivia McMurrey
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WBHM
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Gulf States Newsroom
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Rogelio V. Solis/AP PhotoA new report shows that Mississippi is one of only a handful of states with rising parole and probation numbers. -
Avery White/WWNOIn a conversation with Gulf States Newsroom’s Drew Hawkins, Nungesser discusses the NDA he signed, how Gov. Landry's administration pushed the practice and why he thinks the public deserves to know what the state gives up to land these deals.
News from NPR
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Skerritt was Captain Dallas in Alien, Viper in Top Gun, and a small town sheriff in the TV series Picket Fences. -
The judge found the department's field operations to identify noncitizens who voted likely violated the Voting Rights Act, which bars voter intimidation. -
"There's an understandable pull in my industry to make things ... super safe, super familiar," Gilpin says. She wants to go the other way. Gilpin currently stars in the noir drama The Lowdown. -
In '72, filmmaker William Greaves hosted a cocktail party for the surviving members of the Harlem Renaissance. Our critic says the footage is "like watching a 50th college reunion set on Mt. Olympus."
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