The Pass Christian Public Library announces the first concert for the 4th Annual Words and Music Community Culture Series. On Friday, May 15th at 7 p.m., we are pleased to welcome the Pass Christian Community Orchestra for our “Concert in the Courtyard”! This...
by Julia James and Geoff Pender, Mississippi Today March 29, 2023 The Senate rejected the nomination of Robert Taylor for state superintendent of education on Wednesday. Taylor was most recently a deputy state superintendent for the North Carolina Department of Public...
by Geoff Pender and Bobby Harrison, Mississippi Today March 30, 2023 Mississippians over the next two years could see a boom in new major road projects after lawmakers agreed to give the Mississippi Department of Transportation an extra $620 million Thursday as...
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...
Registration is underway at Itawamba Community College for a Legal Studies Day scheduled for Apr. 14 at the David C. Cole Student Services Building on the Fulton Campus. High school seniors are invited to explore the opportunities available through ICC’s School of...
Students, parents, and community members are collecting items and raising money for Mississippi tornado victims next week. The Oakdale Elementary School PTO has organized a donation drive to be held at the school. All of the donations and proceeds will go to tornado...
by Bobby Harrison and Geoff Pender, Mississippi Today March 29, 2023 The Mississippi Legislature, finally reaching a budget accord, worked late Wednesday night to pass that agreement with hopes of ending its 2023 session on Thursday. A key peg in that deal is an...
by Bobby Harrison and Geoff Pender, Mississippi Today March 29, 2023 The Republican leadership of the Mississippi Legislature has for years attempted to make it easier to remove voters from the election rolls. They finally succeeded with legislation that passed both...
The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) announced today the 2023 Mississippi Parent of the Year is Kimberly Walker Nailor, a mother of two students in the Vicksburg-Warren School District. Nailor was nominated by the school district and is described as a model...
by Geoff Pender, Mississippi Today March 30, 2023 Legislation that has brought hours of bitter debate, has inspired broad negative national attention and has racially divided the Mississippi Legislature about its capital city of Jackson took a penultimate step towards...
Long Beach Live, the city’s monthly concert series, will feature the Southern Miss Jazz Lab Band and singer Jonathan Brannan at 7 p.m. on Friday, April 14. The outdoor event will take place at the Harper McCaughan Town Green amphitheater in Long Beach and is free to...
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 Julia James, Mississippi Today March 27, 2023 Four school districts are closed Monday as a result of the deadly tornadoes that made their way across the state over the weekend and killed 21 people, according to the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency. The...
Contact: Aspen Harris Mississippi State is hosting the annual International Fiesta full of food, music, games and other cultural activities this week as part of the university’s Unity Month celebration. Sponsored by the Starkville World Neighbors Association and MSU’s...
by Mississippi Today, Mississippi Today Mississippi Today and two other news outlets have allied to oppose former Gov. Phil Bryant’s effort to block the public from viewing emails and text messages that could shed new light on an ongoing investigation involving the...
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...
FEMA is urging a wide area of the country to stay alert and start preparing for weather risks from today into the weekend. The National Weather Service is predicting intense and widespread severe thunderstorms, including tornadoes in some areas. Remain alert, keep...
The inaugural Colombian Coffee Company Hank Aaron Tribute Game between the Jackson State Tigers and Mississippi Braves on Wednesday, April 5th at Trustmark Park has been canceled due to field conditions from recent rain. “This is very unfortunate and supporters...
by Elena DeBre, Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting at Mississippi Today, Mississippi Today March 28, 2023 The murder of Billy Dover spread quickly through Quitman County, a rural stretch situated in the northwest Mississippi Delta, where most of the...
by Molly Minta, Mississippi Today March 29, 2023 A Lafayette County grand jury indicted Sheldon Timothy Herrington, Jr., the Ole Miss graduate from a connected North Mississippi family, for the murder of Black, queer student Jimmie “Jay” Lee. A filing from the...
