Michael Goldberg

Michael Corey Jenkins stands outside Taylor Hill Church in Braxton, Miss., March 18, 2023. The police shooting of Jenkins, who sustained critical injuries after he says a deputy put a gun in his mouth and fired, led the Justice Department to open a civil rights investigation into the Rankin County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies said Jenkins was shot after he pointed a gun at them. (AP Photo/HG Biggs)

Mississippi deputies accused of shoving guns in mouths of 2 Black men

March 27, 2023 at 5:58 a.m.

Several deputies from a Mississippi sheriff鈥檚 department being investigated by the Justice Department for possible civil rights violations have been involved in at least four violent encounters with Black men...

Santonia Matthews, a custodian at Forest Hill High School in Jackson, Miss., hauls away a trash can filled with water from a tanker in the school’s parking lot, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. The tanker is one of two placed strategically in the city to provide residents non-potable water. The recent flood worsened Jackson’s longstanding water system problems and the state Health Department has had Mississippi’s capital city under a boil-water notice since late July. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Students return to campus amid water crisis in Jackson

September 6, 2022 at 9:33 p.m.

While its water crisis continued, students in Mississippi’s capital were able to return to class for the first time in a week Tuesday with assurances that the toilets and sinks...

Residents in the North Canton Circle neighborhood of Jackson, Miss., on Monday, Aug. 29, 2022, were advised to evacuate from impending floodwaters. Some moved out all of their possessions in U-Haul trucks or cars. (AP Photo/Michael Goldberg)

Mississippi capital: Water everywhere, not a drop to drink

August 30, 2022 at 10:57 a.m.

Mississippi's capital city is grappling with multiple water problems — too much on the ground after heavy rainfall in the past week, and not enough safe water coming through the...

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