by Alex Rozier, Mississippi Today March 31, 2023 President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden visited Rolling Fork on Friday to meet with survivors and witness damages from a deadly tornadoes that destroyed homes across Mississippi a week ago. After landing Friday...
The State Fire Marshal Office (SFMO) continues responding to the March 24, 2023 storms and tornadoes in the Mississippi Delta. Fire service teams have been in all damage areas making sure fire service needs are met. These teams are also medically trained. Sadly,...
Fannie Lou Hamer’s last surviving child dies at 56 by Mississippi Today, Mississippi Today March 30, 2023 Jacqueline Hamer Flakes, the last living child of civil and voting rights advocate Fannie Lou Hamer, died this week and will be buried April 8 in Ruleville....
The University of Mississippi Medical Center is coordinating with the Mississippi State Department of Health and Mississippi Emergency Management Agency to deploy a mobile field hospital to Rolling Fork. Large tents and other components necessary to create a hospital...
by Sara DiNatale and Kate Royals, Mississippi Today March 29, 2023 Rolling Fork residents devastated by last week’s fatal tornadoes that destroyed the town’s main health care centers and damaged other parts of the state will soon have better access to doctors at a new...
by Alex Rozier, Mississippi Today March 31, 2023 ROLLING FORK – At first, Eddie Jones’ two 5-year-old twin daughters didn’t want to stay with his mother last Friday night. But after she insisted, the girls complied, and at around 6:30 p.m. they made the short...
