The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks (MDWFP) is excited to announce the reopening of Simpson County Lake. Starting at 6:00 a.m. on Wednesday, June 7, 2023, anglers can once again enjoy the recently renovated 76-acre state fishing lake...
More and more hospitals are leaving the Mississippi Hospital Association (MHA) with the latest departure coming from North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. According to reporting from the Magnolia Tribune, the decision from North Mississippi Medical Center...
Cold-Link Logistics is locating warehousing and logistics operations in Jones County. The project represents a $64 million corporate investment that will create 84 new jobs. Cold-Link Logistics, a rapidly growing privately held company based in the southeast U.S. that...
by Will Stribling Anti-tobacco groups in Mississippi and across the country are observing “No Menthol Sunday” this weekend as part of their efforts to turn people away from smoking and highlight how menthol-flavored cigarettes harm public health. According...
BY CLARA TURNAGE Eighty high school students will flock to the University of Mississippi’s Trent Lott Leadership Institute this summer to learn leadership, earn school credits and set them on the path to achieve their goals. The Lott Leadership Institute for Rising...
Delta watercolor artist, David Rawlinson, will be the guest artist at a special Pacesetter Open Mic Poetry Night on June 1st from 6:00-8:00 PM. Rawlinson’s work ‘Early Morning in the Delta’ has been chosen to grace the cover of the 2023 Mississippi...
May 19, 2023 Consider Jackson attorney Harry Rosenthal as the king of conservatorships. By his own estimate, he has been a conservator for more than 100 vulnerable individuals. Hinds County Chancery Court records show he’s continuing to handle a dozen...
by Jimmie E. Gates, Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting, Mississippi Today May 19, 2023 Opal K. Smith celebrated her 93rd birthday in March under a conservatorship that for the past eight years has left her with no control over her finances or where she...
by Julia James, Mississippi Today May 19, 2023 Enrollment and spending on pre-K remained relatively stagnant in the 2021-22 school year, according to a new national report. Newer state data shows that enrollment has increased significantly this school year because of...
By Douglas Carswell Mississippi, it is often said, has an incarceration problem. Our state locks up too many people for too long, we are told. Over the past two decades, Mississippi’s prison population has in fact fallen. In January 2014 the prison population of...
Mississippi Delta Community College (MDCC) celebrated the end of the 2023 academic year at the Mississippi State Penitentiary (MSP) at Parchman on May 11. As they have been since the program began in Spring of 2021, the incarcerated students were proud and excited to...
As the summer boating season approaches, water enthusiasts across the state are preparing to hit the waterways. To promote boating safety and minimize accidents on the water, the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks (MDWFP) will be participating in...
by Molly Minta, Mississippi Today May 19, 2023 A legislative committee on Friday released a report about an LGBTQ+ clinic at the University of Mississippi Medical Center that came under fire last year after lawmakers were angered to learn it had provided...
by Julia James, Mississippi Today May 20, 2023 A judge will not block the Harrison County School District from requiring a trans girl to dress as a boy for her graduation ceremony Saturday. The order was given from the bench late Friday night after attempts to settle...
May 21, 2023 The similarities were striking as Democratic gubernatorial candidate Brandon Presley held a news conference at the state Capitol last week to unveil his ethics reform package just as Jim Hood did in 2019. Both also blistered their Republican opponent,...
By Bob Garver As the tenth (non-spinoff) installment of the “Fast” franchise, “Fast X” has a certain duty to its fans. It needs to up its game from every chapter that came before it. It needs to contain a development so huge, the series will never be the same. It...
by Kate Royals, Mississippi Today May 17, 2023 Ochsner Health, which has dozens of operations in Mississippi, has announced it is cutting nearly 800 positions here and in Louisiana. But a spokesman for the health care giant would not say how many of the eliminated...
by Devna Bose, Mississippi Today May 18, 2023 The University of Mississippi Medical Center has hired a former Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Mississippi executive as its new chief financial officer. Jennifer Sinclair will oversee the finances and budget for the entire...
by Adam Ganucheau, Mississippi Today May 18, 2023 Gulfport Memorial Hospital CEO Kent Nicaud wrote Gov. Tate Reeves a $25,000 campaign check about three weeks before the governor appointed him to a significant government job. Nicaud, who has long been among Reeves’...
by Rick Cleveland, Mississippi Today May 18, 2023 Toughness, grit and playing with pain are terms we usually associate with the manly sport of football. Here Thursday, at the Mississippi High School Softball State Championships, is living, limping proof that those...
