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• Gloster residents protest Drax’s new permit request

  15-11-2024 20:33 via mississippitoday.org
  
  GLOSTER — Drax, the United Kingdom-based wood pellet producer that’s violated air pollution limits in Mississippi multiple times, is asking the state to raise the amount of emissions it’s allowed to release from its facility in Gloster.In September, the state fined Drax $225,000 for releasing 50% over the permitted limit of HAPs, or Hazardous Air Pollutants, from its facility Amite BioEnergy. In a pending permit application that it submitted to the Mississippi Department of En
  
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• Kosciusko Man Arrested in Narcotics Bust

  15-11-2024 19:19 via breezynews.com
  
  On Friday morning, the Kosciusko Police Department executed a narcotics search warrant at a residence on Thornton Street. During the search, authorities uncovered felony quantities of narcotics. Peyton Armstrong, a 19-year-old from Kosciusko, was arrested and charged with felony possession of a controlled substance. He […]
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• Mexican national pleads guilty to murder on the Natchez Trace Parkway

  15-11-2024 17:39 via breezynews.com
  
  Jackson, MS – A Mexican national pled guilty today to murder on the Natchez Trace Parkway. According to court documents and statements made in open court, on September 23, 2018, Cristian Mitchel Mondragon Gonzales, 29, had an altercation with the victim following a party at […]
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• Mississippi receives ‘F’ rating on preterm birth rate

  15-11-2024 17:11 via mississippitoday.org
  
  Mississippi received an F grade for its rate of preterm births in 2023 – those occurring before 37 weeks gestation – from the 2024 March of Dimes report card. Mississippi’s preterm birth rate was 15%, the worst in the country. Any state with a rate greater than 11.5% also received an F. The U.S. average was 10.4%. Preterm births in Mississippi have risen steadily over the last decade, increasingly nearly 2% since 2013. In Jackson, the state capital, nearly one in fiv
  
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• Kosciusko coaches selected to coach in all-star game

  15-11-2024 15:17 via breezynews.com
  
  Two Kosciusko Whippets coaches have been selected to coach in an all-star game. KHS Girls’ basketball coaches Cory Guyton and Miranda Smith have been chose as coaches for the Mississippi Sports Medicine North/South All-Star Basketball game. Guyton and Smith will serve as coaches for the […]
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• Mississippi Center for Advanced Medicine will close following settlement with UMMC in federal trade secrets lawsuit

  15-11-2024 12:00 via mississippitoday.org
  
  A settlement in a federal trade secrets case will force a Madison health care center that treats children with complex medical conditions to close by the end of the year and prohibit its founding doctor and CEO from practicing medicine in Mississippi ever again. The Oct. 18 agreement concludes a seven-year legal battle between the University of Mississippi Medical Center and the Mississippi Center for Advanced Medicine that began after pediatric hematologist Dr. Spencer Sullivan, the forme
  
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