By Susan Marquez, Magnolia Tribune The Annual Southern Miss Coca-Cola Classic Rodeo is returning to Hattiesburg for its fortieth year. Scheduled for February 6 and 7, the show will be hosted by the University of Southern...
By Meredith Biesinger, Magnolia Tribune The smell hits you first—warm butter, sugar, yeast. By Mardi Gras, king cakes with a beloved label fill homes across Mississippi: Paul’s Pastry Shop. The story starts in 1970: a dream between two parents, and an...
By: Richelle Putnam, Magnolia Tribune Shelley Powers grew up in Biloxi, Mississippi. There, she helped her mother wash dishes and watched geckos crawl across the kitchen window screen, searching for their nightly meal. It was a memory that...
NASA successfully conducted a hot fire of RS-25 engine No. 2063 on Jan. 22 at the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, clearing the way for the engine to be installed for the agency’s Artemis IV mission. The...
By: David Tisdale The University of Southern Mississippi has again earned the nation’s top recognition for community engagement in higher education with the 2026 Carnegie Elective Classification for Community Engagement. The Carnegie Foundation for the...
Two Mississippi students – William Crosby Parker II, a senior at Gulfport High School, and Nial Chen, a senior at Ocean Springs High School, – have been selected for the United States Senate Youth Program (USSYP) and will join Sen. Roger Wicker and Sen. Cindy...
