by Adam Ganucheau, Mississippi Today December 17, 2023 A bomb threat prompted cancellation of Sunday morning programs at Mississippi’s largest Jewish synagogue, Beth Israel Congregation in Jackson. Federal and local authorities worked to clear the synagogue after...
by Devna Bose, Mississippi Today December 13, 2023 A plan championed by Gov. Tate Reeves to draw down more money for the state’s hospitals has been partially approved by the federal government. Thanks to the stamp of approval, hospitals could receive payments within...
Governor Reeves today announced a series of new appointments at the Mississippi Development Authority (MDA). Governor Reeves appointed William “Bill” Cork as Executive Director/Chief Economic Development Officer, PJ Waldrop as Chief Operations Officer, and...
Laura Hipp Mayer has been named Assistant Commissioner for External Relations for the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning. In this role, Hipp Mayer will provide strategic leadership in government relations and communications on behalf of the Board of Trustees...
This week, the Mississippi Agriculture and Livestock Theft Bureau (MALTB) recovered a stolen tractor, with an estimated value of $20,000, in Scott County. On Tuesday, December 12, MALTB investigators recovered a stolen Kubota tractor with a bush hog and front-end...
by Rick Cleveland, Mississippi Today December 14, 2023 We have known for more than two years that powerhouse football programs Texas and Oklahoma would join the Southeastern Conference. We’ve known for eight months the process was going to fast-forward to begin with...
by Mina Corpuz, Mississippi Today December 14, 2023 Nearly seven months after an Indianola police officer shot an 11-year-old boy in the chest during a domestic call, a Sunflower County grand jury decided not to indict him after hearing evidence from the attorney...
by Taylor Vance, Mississippi Today December 14, 2023 Gov. Tate Reeves has appointed Bill Cork as the new executive director of the Mississippi Development Authority, the state’s economic development agency. Cork replaces Laura Hipp Mayer, who served as the agency’s...
by Anna Wolfe, Mississippi Today December 12, 2023 Attorneys interrogated former NFL quarterback Brett Favre about his involvement in the Mississippi welfare scandal for about eight hours Monday. The questions centered on how Favre lobbied welfare officials for...
by Julia James, Mississippi Today December 13, 2023 The Mississippi Charter School Authorizer Board is considering revoking the charter of a Canton school that opened its doors in August due to low enrollment. SR1 College Preparatory and STEM Academy was approved in...
By Bob Garver NOTE: This Japanese film is available in both “Subbed” and “Dubbed” versions. This review will focus on the “Dubbed” version with the English-language voice cast. Anime legend Hayao Miyazaki has come out of retirement for “The Boy and the...
The Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) is excited to announce a new leadership team in the Office of Communications with the additions of Lauren Hegwood and Greg Flynn. Hegwood will serve as the Communications Director and oversee the overall communications...
By Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney I recently read that more than $308 billion is stolen through insurance fraud every year and that if you stacked up those dollar bills, they would stretch to the moon and back – 16 times. That information came...
The old man is sitting on his front porch is his favorite rocking chair and talking to a his freshly minted twenty-one-year-old grandson – attempting to encourage him to think things over clearly before deciding. To make decisions for his life based on clear facts, a...
by Sophia Paffenroth, Mississippi Today December 13, 2023 Viometrice Simmons remembers when she first fell in love with nursing. She was about 5 years old, sitting on the porch of her childhood home in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, as her aunt picked corn from the garden....
Century Club Charities, host organization of the Sanderson Farms Championship, set a record by donating $1 million from tournament proceeds to benefit Mississippi’s only children’s hospital. It is the 10th consecutive year the tournament’s donation to Children’s of...
Firefighter Class 206 of the Mississippi State Fire Academy is making a difference and thirty (30) members will graduate from the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 1001 Firefighter I-II course held at the Mississippi State Fire Academy in Jackson, MS to...
Mississippi State’s data science program is celebrating the first graduating class of students earning the Graduate Certificate for Data Science Pedagogy. Launched in 2022, the post-graduate certificate program prepares K-14 instructors to integrate data science...
by Alex Rozier, Mississippi Today December 12, 2023 Mississippi officials are calling attention to the growing amount of foreign-owned farmland in the state, although it makes up less than three percent of the state’s agriculture and forest land. The amount of...
by Mina Corpuz, Mississippi Today December 12, 2023 Six detention officers, the sheriff and Rankin County are named in a wrongful death lawsuit alleging they failed to intervene even after knowing a jailed man was at high risk for suicide. Brian Christopher Ray, 34,...
