by Isabelle Taft and Mollie Simon, ProPublica, Mississippi Today December 7, 2023 This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Mississippi Today. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this one as soon as they are...
by Devna Bose, Mississippi Today December 6, 2023 As the state’s hospital crisis continues, Gov. Tate Reeves has held meetings on health care, but his office refuses to say what they’re about. His staffers also claim there are no official documents for those...
Mississippi State University is again among the top research universities nationally after reporting more than $300 million in research and development expenditures in the latest National Science Foundation report. MSU’s $303,418,000 in research and development...
The Mississippi Agriculture and Livestock Theft Bureau (MALTB) recovered a stolen tractor, with an estimated value of $78,334, in Yazoo County last week. In March of 2021, the Yazoo City Police Department took an initial report of a stolen John Deere 6100 series...
by Devna Bose, Mississippi Today December 6, 2023 Smith County residents could soon have a hospital again. Covington County Hospital and South Central Regional Medical Center, both led by CEO Greg Gibbes, in a Dec. 5 press release announced plans to open a hospital in...
By Bob Garver When the writers’ and actors’ strikes of 2023 forced several movies off the fall schedule, it was a pair of musicians that came to the rescue with two of the most heavily-promoted concert movies of all time. “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” got the box...
The Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) is seeking applications from high school sophomores to serve as the new high school junior student representative on the SBE Board for the 2024-25 school year. Application deadline is Jan. 26, 2024. Now in its sixth year,...
by Julia James, Mississippi Today December 6, 2023 The Jackson Public School District unveiled its adjusted school consolidation plan Tuesday night, adding one elementary school and removing four from its initial list released earlier this fall. In October, JPS...
by Rick Cleveland, Mississippi Today December 6, 2023 Too bad college football’s 12-team College Football Playoff system doesn’t go into effect until next season — too bad on so many fronts. If the 12-team plan were in effect this year, Ole Miss likely would be the...
Mom and her teen-age daughter were grocery shopping together, preparing for the family dinner on Friday night. The family always enjoyed fresh fruits, so before paying out at the cash register, they stopped in the fruit and vegetable section of the store. Mom...
More than 20 floats and walking groups hit the streets at Mississippi State Hospital last week, kicking off the 2023 Christmas season for patients and residents. Combining a movie and decades idea, this year’s theme was “Top Movies from 1960 to 2010”....
by Taylor Vance, Mississippi Today December 5, 2023 More than a year after President Joe Biden nominated Scott Colom to fill a vacant federal judicial seat in north Mississippi, the prosecutor’s nomination still appears stalled in the U.S. Senate. Fresh off winning...
Adult learners who plan to attend Itawamba Community College in the spring 2024 have two scholarship opportunities for financial support. They include ICC’s Adult Learner Incentive and the statewide Complete 2 Compete. ICC’s Adult Learner Incentive scholarship, which...
For the first time in the history of the Mississippi Department of Public Safety (MSDPS), all sworn law enforcement officers under MSDPS gathered at the Mississippi Trademart for a general assembly to hear from Governor Tate Reeves, Lt. Governor Delbert Hosemann,...
by Mina Corpuz, Mississippi Today December 5, 2023 The state and attorneys representing two men on death row are in conflict about whether legal options still exist for them to challenge their convictions or to proceed with their executions. In court documents,...
By Toni Miles With the holidays approaching, Coast locals are encouraged to take time out of their holiday schedules on Saturday, December 16, to help honor the military men and women who dedicated their lives to providing safety and preserving America’s freedoms....
The Oxford Film Festival is the recipient of a $32,000 grant from grant from the Mississippi Arts Commission (MAC). This grant is a portion of the more than $1.75 million in grants MAC awarded in Fiscal Year 2024 and will be used to support Festival operations over...
by Bobby Harrison, Mississippi Today December 4, 2023 The Mississippi Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Feb. 6, 2024, in a case challenging the constitutionality of providing public funds to private schools. The Supreme Court will hear an appeal by the state...
The Mississippi Farmers Market will host the Merry Market 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Saturday, December 9. The Market will feature complimentary cocoa/cider, face painting, letters to Santa and unique vendors for holiday gift shopping. Santa will be at the Market 9:00...
By Kara Kimbrough Borrowing a phrase from a former college student of mine who once said, “Wow, you lecture a LOT about stuff you’re passionate about!” I’m continuing my series (not lecture) on the joys of gifting others this Christmas with homemade candy, cookies and...
