by Taylor Vance, Mississippi Today May 11, 2023 A majority of justices on the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Mandy Gunasekara is not a certified Republican candidate for Northern District Public Service Commissioner and removed her from the August...
by Mina Corpuz, Mississippi Today May 12, 2023 A federal judge temporarily blocked the controversial House Bill 1020 from becoming law Friday. U.S. District Court Judge Henry Wingate granted the motion in a lawsuit brought by the NAACP, which would stop Mississippi...
Since its launch in 2021, Crowns for a Cause has inspired hundreds of women from across the country to give back to their community. Organization Ambassadors are rewarded with predetermined awards each month based on their collection of needed items. These awards...
Two Mississippi students are among the 59th class of U.S. Presidential Scholars, recognizing 161 high school seniors for their accomplishments in academics, the arts, and career and technical education fields. The Mississippi scholars include Madison G. Echols of...
by Bobby Harrison, Mississippi Today May 11, 2023 Gov. Tate Reeves’ reelection campaign is using 2019 video from the now-shuttered New Summit School that was owned by Nancy New, one of the central figures in Mississippi’s massive welfare scandal. New and her son Zach...
May 11, 2023 A Union County judge has dismissed an attempted murder charge against a 24-year-old former Ole Miss student accused of stabbing a Tennessee man in the neck because the victim did not come to court. Four days into the trial of New Albany resident Lane...
by Molly Minta, Mississippi Today May 10, 2023 The wave of presidential turnover at Mississippi’s institutions of higher learning has come to Rust College. The state’s oldest historically Black college in Holly Springs announced in a press release Wednesday that Ivy...
by Julia James, Mississippi Today May 10, 2023 The Mississippi Attorney General’s Office has filed its appeal in a lawsuit about public money being allocated to private schools, echoing their arguments from earlier in the process. The Legislature gave $10 million to a...
by Mina Corpuz, Mississippi Today May 10, 2023 The three Jackson women serving as plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging the controversial House Bill 1020 testified Wednesday the law would impact their right to elect judges from their community like other residents of...
The director of a Mississippi State University research center will serve as the state scholar for “Crossroads: Change in Rural America.” Leah Kemp—director of the College of Architecture, Art and Design’s Fred Carl Jr. Small Town Center—will support...
The first Thursday of each month is a Brighter Day for residents at the Billy Brumfield Men’s Shelter. Each month, the Institute and its partners provide a plethora of services for shelter residents and other unhoused individuals via its A Brighter Day Resource and...
by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Today May 11, 2023 A Gulfport dentist continues to serve on the state dental watchdog board, despite making thousands in unauthorized campaign contributions from a Mississippi Dental Association bank account, including $5,400 to Gov....
by Geoff Pender, Mississippi Today May 11, 2023 Once a vocal champion of campaign finance transparency and reform, lieutenant governor candidate Chris McDaniel has again filed an incomplete and incoherent report of the amounts and sources of funding for his campaign....
Rick Cleveland You’ve got the severe scholarship limits: 11.7, spread among 27 players. You’ve got the uncertainty of who will be chosen – and how high – in the Major League draft. You’ve got the fragility of pitching arms: an elbow here, a shoulder there, and you’re...
by Taylor Vance, Mississippi Today May 11, 2023 A majority of justices on the Mississippi Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Mandy Gunasekara is not a certified Republican candidate for Northern District Public Service Commissioner and removed her from the August...
Two Mississippi students are among the 59th class of U.S. Presidential Scholars, recognizing 161 high school seniors for their accomplishments in academics, the arts, and career and technical education fields. The Mississippi scholars include Madison G. Echols of...
CASA Mississippi is proud to announce the opening of CASA of Hinds County, its new Court-Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) program which will serve children in the Hinds County foster care system. CASA of Hinds County is the newest member of the National...
by Molly Minta, Mississippi Today May 10, 2023 The University of Mississippi Medical Center has let go nearly all of the instructors at its Oxford-based accelerated bachelors of science in nursing program, prompting outcry from current and former students who worry...
Mississippi State University President Mark E. Keenum today [May 11] announced Dr. Nicholas Frank, DVM, Ph.D., DACVIM as MSU’s new dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine. Frank is currently in his sixth year as associate dean for academic affairs and...
by Devna Bose, Mississippi Today May 10, 2023 On the heels of several major hospitals departing the Mississippi Hospital Association, the organization’s leader is baffled. The hospitals’ move comes shortly after the association’s political action committee made a...
