By: Jeremy Pittari, Magnolia Tribune Adjustments were made to several degree programs by the Board of Trustees for the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning, including additions, suspensions and deletions, during Thursday’s meeting. The...
By Meredith Biesinger, Magnolia Tribune The city of Natchez has a way of capturing your heart and pulling you back again and again. Maybe it’s the view from the bluffs, where the Mississippi stretches out like a silver ribbon, or the way downtown’s brick...
Officials joined Mississippi Transportation Commission Chairman Willie Simmons this morning to celebrate the completion of a new sidewalk project on the Scooba campus of East Mississippi Community College (EMCC). The ribbon cutting ceremony marked the...
The Mississippi Department of Archives and History and Mississippi State University have signed an agreement that establishes a framework to create a regional hub for education, research, and workforce development at Historic Jefferson College near Natchez. MSU...
By Jeremy Pittari, Magnolia Tribune The search firm hired by the Board of Trustees for the Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning to find the next president of Jackson State University, AGB Search, presented an overview of how the process will play...
By Daniel Tyson, Magnolia Tribune During a Thursday meeting at the State Capitol, members of the legislative Study Committee on Certain Unmerchantable and Uninsurable Titles heard how difficult it is for municipalities to solve the state’s blighted...
The Mississippi Egg Marketing Board (MEMB), Mississippi Poultry Association, Mississippi State University (MSU) Department of Poultry Science and Mississippi Beef Council are pleased to announce the winners of the 2025 Mississippi State Fair Omelet Cook-off....
By: Samantha McCain Alexander, APR The Southern Miss Alumni Association will recognize seven distinguished alumni with its highest annual awards as part of The University of Southern Mississippi’s Homecoming 2025 festivities throughout October 24 and 25,...
By Jeremy Pittari, Magnolia Tribune According to findings from The Commonwealth Fund, Mississippi and Louisiana rank 50th and 51st, respectively, in terms of the performance of Medicare programs in those states. Some of the reasons Mississippi falls so...
By Susan Marquez, Magnolia Tribune Mississippi has some great storytellers. Greg Harkins is one of them. With his signature white beard and a twinkle in his eye, he’s been mistaken for Santa Claus more than once, and says he’s been mistaken for worse....
By Daniel Tyson, Magnolia Tribune Despite strong opposition, the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) has granted a Gloster business permission to increase its air emissions, reversing its April decision. During a highly emotional...
Candidates running for U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives were to file their third quarter campaign finance reports with the Federal Election Commission by October 15. As of early Thursday morning, not all of the announced candidates’...
By Bob Garver The legacy of the “Tron” franchise is complicated. On a consistently positive note, the series has always been a feast for the eyes and ears, with pleasing, if not groundbreaking special effects and musical scores that heart-pumpingly...
By Danny Barrett, Jr./ UMMC Communications The first long-term study in Mississippi of potential links between preeclampsia in pregnant women and serious health issues for their babies later in life begins in earnest in 2026. Researchers at the University of...
Send responses to: andybowman839@gmail.com The difference between a whistleblower or a tattler is their mission- no matter what they publicly declare. Whistling is to trying prevent potential disaster from happening to innocent people. In other words,...
By Marilyn Tinnin, Magnolia Tribune Cissye Meeks Gallagher of Greenwood does not remember a time when she was not holding a golf club. She just knows the game has been a factor in every aspect of her life from the day her dad, Ed Meeks, also a state...
How do the lessons of The Great Gatsby unfold if you’re serving a life sentence while reading it? How does a memoir of war land with someone confined to a cinderblock classroom in a rural Mississippi prison? Hidden Mirrors, a new podcast hosted by...
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is recognizing Mississippi State for its efforts to alleviate world hunger through developing sustainable aquatic food systems. MSU’s Global Center for Aquatic Health and Food Security is being...
By Frank Corder, Magnolia Tribune Four suspects in the Leland mass shooting which occurred over the weekend have been arrested, the FBI has confirmed. Three have been charged with capital murder. They are Teviyon L. Powell, 29; William Bryant, 29; and...
By Jeremy Pittari, Magnolia Tribune A Mississippi man set to be executed by the state on Wednesday for a murder that occurred in 1993 will find no clemency from the governor. Short of intervention from the U.S. Supreme Court, the execution of the Charles...
