by Julia James, Mississippi Today May 20, 2023 A judge will not block the Harrison County School District from requiring a trans girl to dress as a boy for her graduation ceremony Saturday. The order was given from the bench late Friday night after attempts to settle...
May 21, 2023 The similarities were striking as Democratic gubernatorial candidate Brandon Presley held a news conference at the state Capitol last week to unveil his ethics reform package just as Jim Hood did in 2019. Both also blistered their Republican opponent,...
By Bob Garver As the tenth (non-spinoff) installment of the “Fast” franchise, “Fast X” has a certain duty to its fans. It needs to up its game from every chapter that came before it. It needs to contain a development so huge, the series will never be the same. It...
by Kate Royals, Mississippi Today May 17, 2023 Ochsner Health, which has dozens of operations in Mississippi, has announced it is cutting nearly 800 positions here and in Louisiana. But a spokesman for the health care giant would not say how many of the eliminated...
by Adam Ganucheau, Mississippi Today May 18, 2023 Gulfport Memorial Hospital CEO Kent Nicaud wrote Gov. Tate Reeves a $25,000 campaign check about three weeks before the governor appointed him to a significant government job. Nicaud, who has long been among Reeves’...
by Devna Bose, Mississippi Today May 18, 2023 The University of Mississippi Medical Center has hired a former Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Mississippi executive as its new chief financial officer. Jennifer Sinclair will oversee the finances and budget for the entire...
by Rick Cleveland, Mississippi Today May 18, 2023 Toughness, grit and playing with pain are terms we usually associate with the manly sport of football. Here Thursday, at the Mississippi High School Softball State Championships, is living, limping proof that those...
by Devna Bose, Mississippi Today May 18, 2023 Another health care facility in Mississippi is in danger of shutting its doors. KPC Promise Hospital in Vicksburg, a 35-bed long-term care facility, has leased space at Merit Health River Region’s main campus since 2018....
by Rick Cleveland, Mississippi Today May 17, 2023 Back when 60-year-old Scott Berry was a younger coach at Southern Miss — and long before the grass baseball field was replaced with artificial turf — he would spend long hours making sure the field was immaculate....
by Alyssa Arbuckle The man accused of killing his wife in mid-March has pleaded not guilty to numerous charges connected to her death, including arson, sexual battery of a minor, and murder. Michael Owens, 36, submitted his plea in a Hinds County courtroom on Tuesday...
A late June symposium in Starkville is kicking off a new effort to unite the state’s aerospace and defense sectors. The Mississippi Enterprise for Technology (MSET) and Mississippi State University are hosting the Mississippi Aerospace and Defense Symposium June...
by Molly Minta, Mississippi Today May 18, 2023 Executive session meeting minutes show that the Institutions of Higher Learning Board of Trustees “terminated” Felecia Nave as president of Alcorn State University — a modicum of information but more clarification than...
by Taylor Vance, Mississippi Today May 17, 2023 Party leaders and campaign staffers scrambled this week after incumbent Republican Gov. Tate Reeves over the weekend appeared to suggest that only one conservative is competing in the hotly contested GOP primary for...
Mississippi State Department of Psychology faculty members studying hoarding behavior are teaming with faculty in the university’s College of Veterinary Medicine to look at implications of this disorder and its relation to pet ownership. Animal lovers who strive...
Hancock County Port and Harbor Commission, in partnership with Mississippi Power, are excited to announce the engagement of consulting firm Retail Strategies from Alabama to identify and recruit new businesses to the I-90 corridor from Bay St. Louis to Waveland and...
The Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) today announced it will hold a special-called meeting on June 15 to consider the appointment of an interim state superintendent of education effective July 1. The SBE also voted to allow the individual who is named...
Mississippi State University will recognize Albert C. Clark of Starkville, as its National Alumnus of the Year during the Friday [May 19] MSU Alumni Association 2023 awards banquet. “We are proud and grateful for the opportunity to honor Albert Clark and the...
by Julia James, Mississippi Today May 18, 2023 Just over 75% of Mississippi third-graders passed the “third grade reading gate” test on their first try, a rate that is higher than pre-pandemic levels. The results of the Mississippi Academic Assessment Program third...
by Julia James, Mississippi Today May 18, 2023 The ACLU has sued the Harrison County School District over its refusal to allow a transgender student to wear a dress to her graduation ceremony. The student, referred to as L.B. in the ACLU press release, has been openly...
by Geoff Pender, Mississippi Today May 16, 2023 After six campaign finance filings — including amended, amended-amended, termination-amended, and even one the-computer-temporarily-ate-it reports — it’s still unclear exactly how much money longtime state Sen....
