William Carey University has inducted four new members into its Alumni Hall of Fame – a banker, a nurse, an educator, and a coach. The honors came April 4 during Homecoming at WCU’s Hattiesburg campus. “Carey alumni are making a difference in Mississippi...
By: Magnolia Mornings, Magnolia Tribune The Mississippi Department of Public Safety’s Driver Service Bureau will open select locations on Saturday, April 12; Saturday, April 26; and Saturday, May 3, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The extra hours are to accommodate...
The Lendon Players, based at Hinds Community College’s Raymond Campus, are performing Larry Shue’s comedy, “The Foreigner,” April 14-17 in Brooks Theatre. The scene is a fishing lodge in rural Georgia often visited by...
Delta State University proudly announces a major contribution from Boeing in support of its distinguished Commercial Aviation Program. This investment marks a significant milestone in the University’s ongoing commitment to developing top-tier aviation professionals...
By: Richelle Putnam, Magnolia Tribune Between his calls as a firefighter in Oxford, Mississippi, Larry Brown ignited a fictional but undeniable South on paper and then fanned the flames, searing his name into the canon of Southern literature. A high...
By: Daniel Tyson, Magnolia Tribune Mississippi lawmakers have passed legislation that creates the crime of grooming of a child and set penalties for those convicted of violating the law. The bill – HB 1308 – states that a person over the age of 21...
By: Annie Oeth, UMMC Communications Photos By: Joe Ellis and Melanie Thortis/ UMMC Communications A laptop computer sat on three reams of paper, not for height but symbolism: The 1,500 sheets of paper represent the length of Children’s of Mississippi’s...
By Kara Kimbrough I’ve shared my favorite cuisines in the past as well as those that I can do without. Specifically, I prefer to skip over the multitude of Mexican restaurants that seem to pop up on every corner of our state. One exception: I enjoy a sizzling...
By: Frank Corder, Magnolia Tribune The 2025 regular legislative session has come and gone, after lawmakers gaveled out sine die late last week. As previously reported, Governor Tate Reeves (R) will be calling legislators back to the Capitol in the weeks...
By: Meredith Biesinger, Magnolia Tribune This April 13th, Eudora Welty would have been 116 years old. The iconic Mississippi writer is one of America’s most significant authors. Her attention to detail is immaculate, both in her writing and garden. It is...
Northwest Mississippi Community College’s choirs are working together to bring a concert honoring music from around the world including the music of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, which has 800 years of musical history on April 10 at 7 p.m. at the...
By Representative Clay Mansell The Mississippi House of Representatives gaveled in at 1:00 PM on Monday, marking the start of the thirteenth and final week of the 2025 Regular Legislative Session. This week was marked by significant legislative activity, the...
By: Rachel Vanderford, UMMC Communications Photos By: Joe Ellis/ UMMC Communications The University of Mississippi Medical Center is now the first in the state to offer deep brain stimulation as a treatment for epileptic seizures—a breakthrough...
On April 4th, New Stage Theatre presented an in-school performance of Hamlet at Saint Andrews Episcopal School in Ridgeland as part of the New Stage Theatre Arts-in-Education statewide touring program. Hamlet was presented for 200 9th-12th graders at 10:00...
By: Douglas Carswell, CEO MS Center for Public Policy Mississippi was the second fastest growing state in the last quarter of 2024, according to new data from the US Bureau of Economic Analysis. Output per person in the Magnolia state increased faster than any...
By: Marilyn Tinnin, Magnolia Tribune In 1980, after years of scraping by, cobbling together a second job or two to make ends meet, Captain Larry Brown of the Oxford, Mississippi Fire Department decided he would parlay his life experience and knowledge of...
By Daniel Tyson, Magnolia Tribune In a press conference Thursday, April 3, Governor Tate Reeves (R) said he is not worried that legislators left Jackson this week without passing next fiscal year’s budget. “I’m not saying it’s a good thing, but it...
By: Susan Marquez, Magnolia Tribune Raphael Semmes has been a familiar face in music circles in the Jackson area for decades. The Grenada native and recipient of the 2021 Governor’s Arts Award for “Cultural Ambassador,” Raphael plays with his band, The...
The Mississippi Egg Marketing Board is hosting its annual Easter at the Ag Museum event at the Mississippi Agriculture and Forestry Museum on Saturday, April 19, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. “I want to invite everyone out to the Ag Museum for our upcoming...
By Bob Garver Jason Statham has a new movie out. He plays with a guy who used to work in a violent profession, but he’s sworn to leave that life behind. But now some bad people have messed with his employer (the only people to help him out when he was at...
