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Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves will sign a bill into law protecting female athletes in high schools and colleges from competing against men.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi House voted Wednesday to ban transgender athletes from competing on girls’ or women’s sports teams in the state’s schools and universities. The bill heads to Republican Gov. Tate Reeves in the next several days, and he is expected to sign it into law.

Alabama will become one of the next states to eliminate a government-imposed mandate that requires people wear masks in public, sources close to the matter told Breitbart News.

President Joe Biden criticized the governors of Mississippi and Texas Wednesday for lifting their statewide mask mandates, describing it as “neanderthal thinking.”

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has lifted the mask mandate and will allow businesses to operate at full capacity following a nearly year-long set of rules put in place by the state to combat the coronavirus pandemic.

Officer Jeff Koenig returned to work on February 19, after two years of recovery from a shooting during a routine traffic stop.

The Mississippi state Senate passed a bill that would ban athletes who are biological boys from competing in girl’s sports in state schools.

A Mississippi sheriff’s deputy died in a shootout with a suspect Monday afternoon, according to several reports.

A homeowner in Moss Point, Mississippi, returned gunfire Sunday night, killing one of two alleged home intruders. 

Mississippi flew its revamped state flag over its capitol for the first time Monday, six months after retiring the previous one featuring the Confederate emblem.

A nine-year-old is being hailed as a hero for saving his younger sister in a carjacking involving two men on Thursday, police said Friday.

A woman from Mississippi is accused of driving her teenage relative to Texas to sell her for sex with a man, according to reports.

Police in Mississippi have arrested one suspect after a toddler was abandoned outside a Goodwill store with a note and a change of clothes.

Three food processing plants in Mississippi, raided by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency last year, were found to have also paid workers below the minimum wage and one plant hired a child.

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) on Thursday signaled that his state would not comply with a mandatory six-week national quarantine if former Vice President Joe Biden wins the presidential election.

The first black woman, the beauty queen Asya Branch, to be crowned Miss Mississippi was crowned Miss USA on Monday, and will go on to represent the United States in the Miss Universe pageant.

The family of a third grade girl has filed a federal lawsuit after her school principal ordered her to remove her mask that has the words “Jesus Loves Me” printed on it.

A 15-year-old is being held on a $2 million bond in connection with the alleged rape of a 91-year-old Mississippi woman with dementia.

A bridge inspector is being praised for rescuing a dog stuck high above the Mississippi River over the weekend.

A father of two in Frisco, Texas, is planning to help save a Mississippi man’s life even though the two have never met in person.

At least 400 Americans had their identities stolen by illegal aliens who worked at food processing plants in Mississippi that were raided by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency last year.

Three men suspected to be involved in the shooting death of an off-duty Mississippi Highway Patrol Trooper on Friday have been arrested and are now in custody.

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) on Tuesday announced the addition of a two-week mask mandate, requiring face coverings in both indoor and outdoor settings when social distancing is not feasible.

The attorneys general of 18 states are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold Mississippi’s law that bans abortions after 15 weeks’ gestation.

The Democrat mayor of Moss Point, Mississippi, and his wife were indicted on over a dozen wire fraud charges Friday.

The Satanic Temple plans to sue the state of Mississippi if its new flag includes a reference to God but not to Satan.

The Jackson, Mississippi, city council voted Tuesday to take down a City Hall monument of its namesake — Andrew Jackson, the seventh President of the United States —  by a vote of 5-to-1.

Gov. Tate Reeves (R) of Mississippi signed a bill into law Wednesday that bans abortions based on sex, race, or disability.

Country singer and Mississippi native Faith Hill on Thursday called on her home state to change its flag, claiming it’s “a direct symbol of terror for our Black brothers and sisters.” Hill’s plea comes amid growing calls to alter the flag’s design due to its Confederate battle emblem.

Mississippi AG Lynn Fitch said she is “open” to changing the state flag amid calls from left-wing activists to modify the design due to its Confederate battle emblem.

U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III issued an order that prevents the city of Jackson, Mississippi, from attempting to ban the open carry of firearms so long as such carry is legal at the state level.

GOP Senators from Mississippi told a local news outlet that statues representing states at the Capitol and a state’s flag is a state matter.

Jackson, Mississippi, Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba (D) issued an order over the weekend temporarily prohibiting law-abiding citizens from openly carrying handguns during coronavirus crisis.

Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch announced that she is preparing to sue China to hold the nation accountable for the deaths, illnesses, and economic losses caused by the coronavirus.

Severe thunderstorms hit parts of the Deep South with hail, high winds, and torrential rain on Sunday as forecasters warned residents to brace themselves for overnight tornadoes and flooding across a region that was just hit with a deadly twister the week before.

On Saturday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Cavuto Live,” Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) stated that the state “can’t wait” until there’s a cure for coronavirus or “every single person can get tested every single day to open up