Today, AccelerateMS recognized three individuals and groups for their outstanding contributions to Mississippi’s workforce efforts. Awardees were the FORGE Your Path Career Expo, Mississippi State University Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems Extension’s Industry...
It’s not exactly a terrific ego-booster to forever be ‘the belly’ – the body part that doesn’t clear the fence last, but still, you’re not the tip end of the nose that always goes first, either. Can make a person feel pretty mediocre at times. Whether it’s on the...
by Bobby Harrison, Mississippi Today August 23, 2023 Brandon Presley, the Democratic nominee for governor, has at times spoken of expanding Medicaid through executive action without approval of the Republican-controlled Mississippi Legislature should he win the...
by Devna Bose, Mississippi Today August 23, 2023 Last summer, Greenwood Leflore Hospital was on the brink of closure and up for lease. Now, despite applying for grants from the Legislature, closing several service lines and requesting a more lucrative hospital...
WHAT: Artist Susan Wellington Live Painting Event WHEN: Friday, August 25, 1-4 PM WHERE: Pacesetter Gallery, 310 Ridge Way, Flowood, MS Nationally-renown artist Susan Wellington will be painting live on at Pacesetter Gallery in Flowood. The artist will be working on...
East Mississippi Community College is expanding the number of for-credit programs on the college’s Golden Triangle campus in fields in which workers are needed locally. Classes for one of the programs, Utility Lineworker Technology, began Aug. 14. Work is under way to...
YOU ARE NOT ALONE PROSTATE CANCER SUPPORT SELF-HELP GROUP continues to promote awareness among men, especially those at high risk. Statistics show that African American men are fifty percent more likely to be diagnosed with the disease. September is PROSTATE CANCER...
Pursuant to House Bill 280 passed by the Mississippi Legislature during the 2023 Regular Session, the Mississippi Study Committee on Foreign Purchase of Farmland will hold its first meeting inside Room 113 at the State Capitol on Thursday, August 24, beginning at...
by Rick Cleveland, Mississippi Today August 21, 2023 Someone recently asked me: Who is the most unforgettable coach you have encountered in your long sports writing career? The answer was an easy one, but requires some background. Indeed, it requires a story, which...
by Molly Minta, Mississippi Today August 22, 2023 The provost of Delta State University suddenly stepped down Monday afternoon, according to an internal email obtained by Mississippi Today. Andy Novobilski, who came to the regional college in the Mississippi Delta in...
by Mississippi Today, Mississippi Today August 22, 2023 A Waynesboro teen has been reported missing. Abdul Mohsin Mohamed, 17, was last seen at around 8 p.m. Sunday leaving King Smokers on Mississippi Drive headed to the Burger King up the road. He never made it to...
by Nate Rosenfield and Brian Howey, Mississippi Today August 22, 2023 When Damien Cameron’s body arrived at the Mississippi State Medical Examiner’s Office in August 2021, it bore all the signs of a police brutality case. Mr. Cameron’s face was bloody and...
By Kara Kimbrough When you glanced at the headline, you may have thought the tagline would be…”football!” I have a confession to make. Unless it’s Homecoming and I want to see what the court’s gowns look like, I sometimes skip the main event and stay in the tailgate...
by Sophia Paffenroth, Mississippi Today August 21, 2023 The vaccine with the poorest track record in the U.S. has its worst uptake in Mississippi. Nearly 20 years after the first FDA-approved HPV vaccine was introduced to the public, Mississippi has one of the highest...
by Devna Bose, Mississippi Today August 21, 2023 Dr. LouAnn Woodward will continue to lead the University of Mississippi Medical Center, one of the state’s largest employers and its only academic health science center, for another four years. Trustees on the...
Mississippi Public Broadcasting and the University of Mississippi’s Center for Excellence in Literacy Instruction will host an in-person event to launch an exciting new video series for families with young children: “Mind in the Making.” The event will take place Aug....
by Bobby Harrison, Mississippi Today August 20, 2023 The issue of abortion is in a kind of limbo in Mississippi despite the state being viewed as perhaps the most staunchly anti-abortion state in the nation. Many state politicians like to make that claim. Because of...
The sound of helmets and pads after school in a sweltering stew of August heat can only mean one thing – it’s high school football time in central Mississippi. It’s also preseason for the rapid-response team of orthopaedic surgeons and other health care specialists at...
Final attendance for the 2023 Mississippi Book Festival will top 6,700 as thousands of book lovers heard from more than hundreds of authors in panel discussions and conversations at the State Capitol and Galloway Methodist Church. Over a three-day period, the...
A longtime university educator is the new head of Mississippi State’s Department of Building Construction Science. Syed M. Ahmed comes to MSU from South Dakota State University, where he served as head of the Department of Construction and Operations Management...
