While there are sure to be challenges in consolidating or closing schools, lawmakers were told by three superintendents with ...

The Commissioner of Public Safety has announced a run for Attorney General. He plans to step down from the state agency in the near future and focus solely on running for the office in the 2027 cycle.

Verbon Ryals Sr., of Benton, passed away on August 17, 2026, at the age of 80. Verbon was born on May 2, 1946, in Kosciusko, Mississippi, to Zady Ryals and Eva Lee Tharp Ryals. Throughout his life, he ...

Woodward Hines is providing $800,000 that will help about 170 children in foster care attend college in Mississippi. Through a donation from the Woodward Hines Education Foundation about 170 foster ...

According to the center, the patient is the most severely burned patient to be treated in the facility’s history.

Robert St. John says that while his friend doesn’t like that someone died, he likes what happens when people gather afterward—the stories, the support, and the way a community comes together around a ...

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John Henry Carpenter, Jr., 82, of Bentonia, passed away on Sunday, August 16, 2026, at his residence. Graveside services will be held on Wednesday, August 19, 2026, 11:00 a.m. in Bear Creek Cemetery.

Va., and Dave McCormick, R-Pa., introduced the National American History and Founders Month Act, which would permanently designate November as a time to celebrate, study, and remember the American ...

Lillian Currie Hill (Sweet Child) was a caring and loving soul who believed in God and family. She was born November 8, 1939, in Yazoo City, Mississippi.

Mississippi’s leading sweet potato producers and the state’s leading sweet potato researchers celebrated the official state ...

Nonprofits provide critical services and impact our communities in many positive ways. What most people don’t know is that hundreds of thousands of dollars belonging to various nonprofits remain ...