“The Gift of Life,” a collection of paintings by 94-year-old Virginia Jackson of Verona, is currently on display in the W.O. Benjamin Fine Arts Center Gallery at the Itawamba Community College Fulton Campus. The show includes Jackson’s acrylic paintings of landscapes...
Mississippi State University is investigating an anonymous suspicious device threat Friday night [Aug. 25]. There were no injuries reported. Out of an abundance of caution, MSU swept impacted areas, observed all safety precautions, and updated students. The threat was...
by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Today August 28, 2023 Award-winning historian Tim Tyson swears he heard admissions regarding Emmett Till’s lynching and another racial murder. Admissions that weren’t recorded. Admissions that no one else heard. Admissions that he began...
by Taylor Vance, Mississippi Today August 27, 2023 Republican Rep. Mac Huddleston, a veteran lawmaker who represented Pontotoc County in the state House, died on Sunday, according to several state lawmakers and an obituary posted online. He was 79. Huddleston died...
by Rick Cleveland, Mississippi Today August 27, 2023 There was every reason to believe Jackson State football would regress badly after Deion Sanders took his glitzy show — and many of the Tigers’ best players — off to perform in the Rocky Mountains at Colorado. Not...
Dr. Steven Reed of Southern Eye Care of Clinton recently became the first Mississippian to be elected President-Elect of the American Optometric Association (AOA). Reed has served on the AOA Board of Trustees since 2016 and previously served as the president of the...
