Mississippi has the lowest vaccination rate of any state in the U.S. and one of the highest case counts, making for a perfect storm for increased hospitalizations. On Wednesday, the state’s largest health care system warned it is on the brink of failing. “If we continue that trajectory within the next five to seven to 10 days, I think we’re going to see failure of the hospital system in Mississippi,” Dr....
The water levels are expected to stop rising around 37.8 feet, according to the City of Jackson Twitter account, just short of the 38 foot-threshold that would threaten to damage more neighborhood areas. Jackson area residents have been evacuating the community since Friday. Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba stressed the importance of leaving the area by Saturday, before water levels reached their highest point. Along with the order to leave, the Mayor has continued to update Jackson residents on the emergency conditions via Instagram....
The Bulldogs received 45 first-place votes from the media panel Sunday. Mississippi State beat Auburn 38-23 on Saturday, its third straight victory against a top-10 team. The Bulldogs are the first team in the poll’s 78-year history to go from unranked to No. 1 in five weeks. The previous mark was six weeks by Ohio State in 1954. The Bulldogs were No. 3 last week, tied with Ole Miss, for their best ranking....
The three judges on St. Louis’ 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in the lawsuit in September of 2020 before announcing their decision Wednesday. Reproductive Health Services, operator of the St. Louis abortion clinic, and the American Civil Liberties Union filed the lawsuit. The abortion law, which also would have barred women from seeking abortions after a Down syndrome diagnosis for the fetus, had been blocked by a federal judge while the legal battle was taking place....
After a wild Thursday in which he was arrested twice in just over 12 hours, it is unlikely that he will ever suit up for the Tigers. Early Thursday morning Price was arrested on suspicion of assault, and was immediately suspended by the basketball program. From the Columbia Tribune: Price, 20, was involved in a dispute with a 23-year-old male roommate and a 23-year-old female and followed them from the area of Heather Lane and Ash Street to the area of Stadium Boulevard and blocked in their vehicle with his own vehicle, preventing them from leaving the area, according to the report....
Copeland’s spot debuted on Thursday as part of Under Armour’s “I Will What I Want” campaign.
With Democratic lawmakers keen to end the Senate rule requiring 60 votes to get legislation passed, the 50-50 split in the upper house means that getting much of the new administration’s agenda over the line will prove to be difficult. However, if Democrats forced a change or managed to abolish the measure via the so-called “nuclear option”, the Kentucky Republican warned it would be tough to get even small things done....
Mitochondrial disease can be difficult to diagnose because the disease can present with a wide variety of symptoms, ranging from mild to severe. There are hundreds of different types of mitochondrial diseases. The type you have depends on which cells are affected. Problems may begin at birth or occur later. Most cases are diagnosed during childhood, although adult-onset cases are becoming more common. Mitochondrial disease affects between 40,000 and 70,000 Americans, occurring in one in 2,500 to 4,000 births....
Romney, an unannounced but eager candidate for the Republican nomination, is hoping other evangelicals will have trouble telling the difference. With the Iowa caucuses only a year away, he is working tirelessly for the support of Christian conservatives. In another year, this might be a futile quest given many evangelicals’ conviction that Mormonism is a heretical cult. (Unlike evangelicals, Mormons believe Jesus appeared in America after his resurrection and that God himself was once a man....
The presidential race enters its last month in a mad scramble: three candidates, a blizzard of phony-facts ads and the prospect of an unprecedented nine-day stretch of three debates. From this Sunday through Oct. 19, Americans can tune in the political equivalent of a mini-series: “The Wars of Wind,” a total-immersion civics lesson. The back-to-back-to-back debates could force the kind of concentrated, serious airing of the issues that reformers have long advocated....
But contained in this madness to the method of MLB All-Star Game voting is an exercise usually reserved for political pundits: breaking down the ballots. We last got an update of the vote totals on June 29: MORE: Watch the starting lineups’ live reveal | The worst All-Star starters for last 40 years MLB will reveal the All-Star Game’s starting lineups on Sunday. With some races too close to call, here’s who deserves to take the field first at Great American Ballpark....
A year after their online voting proficiency briefly saw Kansas City players hold the lead at eight of nine positions on the American League ballot, Royals fans are off to a strong start in the 2016 campaign. MORE: These guys could be first time All-Stars The first All-Star Game voting update, released Tuesday by Major League Baseball, features Royals catcher Salvador Perez as the league’s leading vote-getter and Kansas City players among the top two at their positions across the board....
There are plenty of interesting cases for the awards to be handed out from the past year of baseball. In the AL, there’s the MVP debate between a breakout season from Blue Jays’ Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Angels’ two-way star Shohei Ohtani. In the NL, a wide-open MVP race could come down to a number of players of non-playoff teams. This also could be a unique year in Cy Young history....
LAS VEGAS – With the 2015 MLB season getting underway Sunday night at Wrigley Field, Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook manager Ed Salmons walked us through each division and discussed where his shop’s biggest risks lie. Also below, we offer our takes on the season win totals and odds for three divisions. NL WEST DODGERS 4-11 division odds (92 wins) GIANTS 6-1 (82.5) PADRES 4-1 (84) ROCKIES 25-1 (73.5) DIAMONDBACKS 35-1 (72)...
According to Fox Sports, Olivera’s leave was set to expire Wednesday but MLB and the Players’ Association agreed to extend it until a full investigation is completed and an appropriate disciplinary ruling can be made under the league’s new domestic-violence policy. MORE: MLB stars off to awful starts | Braves stock plummets to mocking level Olivera, 31, was arrested and charged with assaulting a woman in an alleged domestic violence incident at Braves’ team hotel in Arlington, Va....
So which players saw their stock rise or fall during the 2017 playoffs? Let’s take a look. MORE: Red Sox reportedly eyeing Eric Hosmer Jake Arrieta Stock up/Stock down: UpThoughts: Arrieta showed he still has swing-and-miss stuff in his two October starts — he struck out 13 in 10 2/3 innings — and that’s what teams wanted to see from Arrieta, who will be 32 next March. Yes, he walked too many hitters (10, which is way too many), but it’s easy to attribute that lack of precision to his lengthy hamstring-related layoff down the stretch in the regular season....
The Royals rode theirs to Game 7 of the 2014 World Series, then to the 2015 championship. Cleveland wouldn’t have gotten to the 2016 World Series without Andrew Miller and Cody Allen. You know those examples will shape how front offices view their free-agent priorities this offseason, so we thought that we’d ditch the straight “ranking the relievers” approach this year. MORE: Ranking all 155 MLB free agents | 13 best available hitters...
Baseball was Castro’s No. 1 sport. He claimed he was a player of some ability in his youth. Early in his tenure, he’d swap his military uniform for a less menacing outfit and throw the ball around or maybe swing a bat during photo ops. MORE: Iconic images of baseball in Cuba As the communist dictator strutted and posed, the real players — the men who were good enough to play in the major leagues, if only they could escape the island — toiled for pennies because amateurism was the ideal (and the mandate) in Castro’s Cuba....
Of course, four of those wins have come against the struggling Marlins, who have batted .211 and hit only one home run while losing six of their first seven games. The Braves and Marlins hook up again tonight for the second of a three-game set. Trevor Cahill will try to keep the Braves’ roll going, while Tom Koehler looks to end the Marlins’ three-game slide. World Series odds: Braves’ price cut in half...
MLB odds: Current baseball betting lines The Mets have built a 4.5-game lead in the NL East, and part of their great story is Colon (4-0, 2.77 ERA), only the fourth 40-or-older pitcher to win four straight starts to start a season. Roger Clemens, Nolan Ryan and Phil Niekro are the others, and Clemens went on to win his first seven in 2004 with Houston. Colon gets to face Miami’s Mat Latos (0-3, 7....
