East Central Community College has announced members of the 2023 Homecoming Court who were selected during elections held recently on the Decatur campus. Court members include (from left) freshman maids Madelynn Cook of Little Rock and Union High School, Miriam Prince...
Mississippi Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce Andy Gipson appointed Hayes Patrick as deputy commissioner of the Mississippi Department of Agriculture and Commerce (MDAC) on September 1. Patrick served as executive director of the Mississippi Agriculture and...
by Taylor Vance September 27, 2023 For the first time in Mississippi’s history, a runoff election could determine the outcome of the governor’s race. For more than a century, the state’s 1890 constitution required candidates for statewide office to accomplish...
By Bob Garver Outside of what you see on the posters, the “Expendables” movies have never been particularly ambitious. Sure, it was great that the action stars of previous decades like Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jet Li, Bruce Willis,...
by Molly Minta, Mississippi Today September 25, 2023 The U.S. Department of Education has placed Mississippi’s public university system under a form of oversight that restricts the flow of federal financial aid dollars and hinders the creation of new academic...
District Attorney Bubba Bramlett announced today that Ne’Tron Lambert, 25, of New Iberia, Louisiana pled guilty to two counts of Aggravated Driving Under the Influence Causing Injuries and was sentenced to serve fifteen years in the Mississippi Department of...
The Study Committee on Foreign Purchase of Farmland in Mississippi held its second meeting at the State Capitol on September 27. The Mississippi Legislature created this Study Committee through House Bill 280, 2023 Legislative Session, for the purpose of studying the...
Don’t kid yourself. It’s not just criminals attempting to escape punishment. It’s not just a teenager who missed curfew and is coming up with excuses. Not just the employee who walks in the door an hour late, full of ‘reasons.’ Or the employer who takes advantage of...
The Mississippi Arts Commission (MAC) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 Governor’s Arts Awards. The 2024 recipients and awards are as follows: Earl Poole Ball Lifetime Achievement Cedric Burnside Excellence in Music Brent Funderburk Excellence in...
Jason Willis of Philadelphia honed his skills as a pitcher and helped propel the 1998 East Central Community College Diamond Warriors to the college’s first ever baseball championship before being drafted by the New York Yankees. In recognition of his...
by Alex Rozier, Mississippi Today September 26, 2023 No state in the contiguous United States has had more rainfall than Mississippi over the last five years. But even the wettest parts of the country are seeing their crops dry up due to unrelenting drought this...
Chickasaw County lays out a feast of fun and flavors, music and majestic outdoors with a three-in-one, all-in-one family-friendly celebration: The Cornbread Festival in downtown Houlka, the 10th anniversary of the Tanglefoot Trail® and a Moonlight Magnolia Concert in...
by Ilyssa Daly and Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Today September 27, 2023 In 2014, Bryan Bailey, the sheriff of Rankin County, Miss., made what seemed like a series of routine requests of the local district attorney’s office. He needed grand jury subpoenas, he said, to...
Recognizing his personal achievements and his tireless dedication to his culture and community, Cyrus Ben, Chief of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, was recently named Alumnus of the Year at East Central Community College and will be recognized during the...
by Devna Bose, Mississippi Today September 26, 2023 The Leflore County Board of Supervisors, almost two weeks after rejecting Greenwood Leflore Hospital’s request to draw $1 million from its $10 million line of credit, approved giving the hospital $3 million on Monday...
by Alex Rozier, Mississippi Today September 26, 2023 A federal judge ruled late last week that Southaven, Horn Lake and some unincorporated parts of DeSoto County have eight years to redirect their wastewater after relying on Memphis for nearly 50 years. The sections...
By Kara Kimbrough I felt a pang of envy last week as I watched news coverage of the picturesque town of Pomfret, Vermont. Attracting thousands of tourists from around the world is an abundance of fall foliage in vibrant colors of orange, yellow and green. One of the...
by Molly Minta, Mississippi Today September 22, 2023 Buoyed by a series of tweets from State Auditor Shad White belittling certain liberal arts degrees as “garbage,” “useless” and “indoctrination factories,” a recent report from his office calls for Mississippi to...
by Geoff Pender and Taylor Vance, Mississippi Today September 26, 2023 To hear Gov. Tate Reeves talk on the reelection trail, one would think that during COVID-19, he was a stalwart champion of individual and business freedom and that Mississippi never locked down or...
The Mississippi Forestry Commission (MFC) has requested equipment and personnel from other states to combat wildfires due to the extended drought. The MFC has exceeded its current workforce capacity under lengthy drought conditions and has assembled wildfire response...
