JACKSON, Mississippi, Feb. 12 -- Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch issued the following news release on Feb. 12, 2025: * * * AG Fitch Announces Settlement in Medicaid Fraud Case (Jackson, Mississippi) Today, Attorney General Lynn Fitch announced that Mississippi has joined 37 other States and Puerto Rico in settling kickback allegations against Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd., a subsidiary wholly owned by pharmaceutical company Pfizer, Inc.. Pfizer has agreed to pay, on beh  more

STARKVILLE, Mississippi, Feb. 13 -- Mississippi State University issued the following news: * * * Little's MSU Spanish course earns international Quality Matters certification mark Contact: Kiley Forsythe STARKVILLE, Miss.--Mississippi State's Spanish I course, taught by Instructor Chris Little in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures, is now an internationally recognized Qualify Matters-certified curriculum. The QM designation is the result of Little's commitment  more

JACKSON, Mississippi, Feb. 14 -- The Office of the Mississippi Attorney General issued the following news release on Feb. 13, 2025: * * * Statement on Officer-Involved Shootings Today, the Office of the Attorney General announced it has completed there view of four incidents involving officer-involved shootings: a February 3,2023, incident in Okolona involving one investigator and four deputies with the Chickasaw County Sheriff's Office; an August 30, 2023, incident in Southaven involving one  more

STARKVILLE, Mississippi, Feb. 13 -- Mississippi State University issued the following news: * * * MSU's Taebi named ASME Rising Star of Mechanical Engineering Contact: Aspen Harris STARKVILLE, Miss.--Mississippi State Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Amirtaha Taebi is a Rising Star of Mechanical Engineering, a distinction of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, for his contributions and achievements in the field. ASME honored the first cohort of Rising Stars at its re  more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, Feb. 12 -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: * * * Scholars address rhetorical potency of 'Plandemic' COVID-19 misinformation Brett Bricker studied the rhetoric around vaccine hesitancy for years before the COVID-19 pandemic caused the phenomenon to explode. Back then, it was mainly fueled by fears that vaccines caused autism. So when the associate specialist in the University of Kansas Department of Communication Studies was invited to contribute to the n  more

STARKVILLE, Mississippi, Feb. 13 -- Mississippi State University issued the following news: * * * Thach named executive director of MSU-led ASSURE Contact: James Carskadon STARKVILLE, Miss.--Hannah Thach has been named executive director of the Mississippi State University-led Alliance for System Safety of UAS through Research Excellence, or ASSURE, following the recent retirement of Col. Stephen "Lux" Luxion (ret.). Established as the Federal Aviation Administration's Center of Excellence  more