By Eddie Smith, MSU Extension Service There is an old-fashioned flowering shrub that has been a treasured pass-along plant for generations, and its blooms are a common sight in the fall in the South. Often called Confederate rose or cotton rose, it is...
by Frank Corder, Magnolia Tribune The only privately-owned U.S. foundry certified for large-scale Navy propeller manufacturing broke ground Tuesday on a third Center of Excellence (CoE3) at the Bird-Johnson Propeller Company facility in Pascagoula. The...
by Cass Rutledge,Mavnolia Tribune Mississippi’s 2nd District Congressman Bennie Thompson (D) is running for his 18th term in the U.S. House of Representatives after first being elected in a special election in 1993 to succeed Mike Espy, who was appointed...
by Jeremy Pittari, Magnolia Tribune The Senate Committee on Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks has been advised that as black bear populations in Mississippi increase, the state may need to consider implementation of a hunting season in the coming years. The...
by Frank Corder, Magnolia Tribune The full Mississippi federal delegation welcomed the signing of the Vicksburg National Military Park Boundary Modification Act into law last week at a groundbreaking ceremony. The legislation permits the State of...
by Frank Corder, Magnolia Tribune The Mississippi Insurance Department announced Wednesday that the agency was revoking the licenses of 21 insurance agents after they failed to appear at a hearing this week. The agents are accused of obtaining or...
by Jeremy Pittari, Magnolia Tribune With dry weather prevailing across the state of Mississippi, the Mississippi Forestry Commission has issued burn bans for a majority of the state’s 82 counties. Throughout the month the commission has been issuing burn...
by Susan Marquez, Magnolia Tribune The wide-ranging program for the 83rd National Folk Festival is returning to Downtown Jackson November 13 through 15 for the second year of its three-year residency. The free festival shines a spotlight on Mississippi...
by Jeremy Pittari, Magnolia Tribune Now that the second round of projects for Mississippi’s Rural Health Transformation Program have been approved, applications for the next projects are now being accepted. Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves (R) announced...
Mississippi Republican Party Chairman Mike Hurst today sent a letter to Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch asking her to investigate Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Scott Colom for a potential violation of Miss. Code § 97-13-47. That statute makes it a...
By Bob Garver The biggest problem with new video game adaptation “Street Fighter” is that it’s bad on purpose. Not “delightfully over the top” or “destined to become a cult classic,” just bad. As if having a degree of self-awareness about its...
NASA tested RS-25 engine No. 10001 on Oct. 21 on the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Test teams fired the developmental engine for almost eight-and-a-half minutes (500 seconds), the same amount of time RS-25...
by Frank Corder, Magnolia Tribune Governor Tate Reeves (R) and State Treasurer David McRae (R) jointly announced Tuesday that Fitch Ratings had upgraded Mississippi’s Gaming Revenue Tax Bonds Series 2015E and 2019A to AA-, with a Stable Outlook. The...
by Jeremy Pittari, Magnolia Tribune Leaders at Mississippi’s two largest universities have received a contract extension and pay increase. Approval of those employment changes occurred during the September 17 meeting of the Board of Trustees for the...
by Meredith Biesinger, Magnolia Tribune A Mississippi bakery made Oprah’s O List. Its red velvet cake earned a spot in The New York Times Holiday Gift Guide. And people from one end of the country to the other have ordered its desserts for birthdays,...
by Roscoe Barnes III, Ph.D., Visit Natchez The Natchez Historical Society and Dr. Robert Prospere have agreed to contribute a combined $2,850 toward a state historical marker commemorating Fort Valeur, a wooden stockade associated with the 1729 Natchez...
Mississippi Supreme Court Administrator and Counsel Hubbard T. Saunders IV of Jackson died on October 18. He was 75. A celebration of life service is scheduled for Saturday, October 24, at 11 a.m. at Fondren Presbyterian Church, 3220 Old Canton Road in Jackson....
by Roscoe Barnes III, Ph.D., Visit Natchez The Home with Heroes Foundation, a nonprofit founded in 2015 by the late G. Mark LaFrancis to help veterans and their families, has ended operations, Foundation President Robert Foley announced. In an October 16...
The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) named Daniel Edney, MD, as the organization’s 84th president. Dr. Edney, state health officer for the Mississippi State Department of Health, succeeds Manisha Juthani, MD, commissioner of the...
Barge Forest Products is investing more than $8.3 million to expand its sawmill operations in Macon, a project expected to increase production capacity, improve efficiency and strengthen the company’s competitiveness in the lumber industry. The expansion...
