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• Update: Fatal Crash in McAdams Monday Morning

  27-02-2023 17:32 via breezynews.com
  
  UPDATE 2/27/23 9:45 a.m. It has been reported that a trailer connected to a work truck detached and struck a vehicle head-on.  The driver of the vehicle that was hit passed away from injuries sustained in the crash.  Jamira L. Riley, a 26-year-old female from […]
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• Human Remains Identified as Missing Kosciusko Man

  21-11-2024 21:20 via breezynews.com
  
  Attala County Coroner, Sam Bell has confirmed that the skeletal remains discovered on Woodland Street in October belong to Grady Stanley, who was reported missing in June 2023. The Mississippi State Crime Lab completed DNA testing and identified the remains. According to the crime lab, […]
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• Closed St. Dominic’s mental health beds to reopen in December under new management

  21-11-2024 20:54 via mississippitoday.org
  
  The shuttered St. Dominic’s mental health unit will reopen under the management of a for-profit, Texas-based company next month. Oceans Behavioral Hospital Jackson, a 77-bed facility, will provide inpatient behavioral health services to adults and seniors and add intensive outpatient treatment services next year. “Jackson continuously ranks as one of the cities for our company that shows one of the greatest needs in terms of behavioral health,” Oceans Healthcare CEO
  
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• Leake Academy State Championship location and broadcast information

  21-11-2024 20:51 via breezynews.com
  
  MAIS 5A State Championship Location/Broadcast Information: Game: Leake Academy vs Parklane Academy Date/Time: – Friday, November 22; 3:00 pm Location: “The Brickyard” at Jackson Academy 4908 Ridgewood RD, Jackson, MS 39211 Radio: WKOZ-FM, Cruisin’ 98.3 Audio stream: Kicks96news.com/Cruisin98news.com; Mobile: Cruisin 98.3 Apple App; Cruisin’ 98.3 […]
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• Marshall Ramsey: Bailing Out

  21-11-2024 20:35 via mississippitoday.org
  
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• Boswell Media Recognized for Make-A-Wish Mississippi Partnership

  21-11-2024 20:08 via breezynews.com
  
  Boswell Media received special recognition during the recent Make-A-Wish Mississippi Board of Directors meeting for its ongoing partnership and volunteer efforts. This year, Boswell Media raised $29,746 for the organization, with a total of more than $100,000 raised over the past 5 years. “This is […]
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• Second Hinds County sheriff candidate faces federal jail time

  21-11-2024 18:42 via mississippitoday.org
  
  Another former Hinds County sheriff candidate is guilty of lying to a pawn shop dealer when he bought a firearm, saying it was for him rather than a convicted felon. Torrence Mayfield, 53, pleaded guilty Wednesday to one charge of making a false statement to a firearm dealer, according to federal court documents. He was set to go to trial. On Oct. 26, 2021, Mayfield bought the firearm from the shop, which is a federal firearms licensee. He had to complete a written form to make the pu
  
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• How Mississippi’s Supreme Court Runoff Election Could Impact Criminal Cases

  21-11-2024 18:00 via mississippitoday.org
  
  Mississippi voters have dealt defeat to one conservative state Supreme Court justice and forced a moderate justice into a Nov. 26 runoff, with the final outcome possibly making the court more open to considering the rights of criminal defendants.The nine-member court is largely conservative but justices have recently split in high-profile decisions that sharply affected state politics, including a ruling that shut down citizen-led ballot initiatives in Mississippi and allowed some state control
  
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• Attala County community college athletes earn All-Conference honors

  21-11-2024 16:11 via breezynews.com
  
  Several local community college football players have received honors from the Mississippi Association of Community College Conference (MACCC). Across the three All-Conference teams, there are three athletes from Attala County. From Coahoma Community College, sophomore defensive lineman Jerrell Erving was named to the All-MACCC Second […]
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• Murrah High’s award-winning literary magazine revived and thriving

  21-11-2024 16:05 via mississippitoday.org
  
  Desks scooted into a circle, the day’s mental debris dumped into five quiet minutes of no-rules writing, and the high-schoolers were primed to tackle poetry. It was midweek, after school at Murrah High, with students gathering in yet one more classroom for yet more word work, this time their efforts aimed at the school’s award-winning literary/arts magazine, Pleiades. Adviser Sarah Ballard’s classroom provided a supportive spot to share, workshop and perfect pieces that m
  
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• Happening today: Grinchmas at The Carousel House (audio)

  21-11-2024 14:57 via breezynews.com
  
  The Grinch is coming to Kosciusko. Thursday, November 21 at 5:00 pm it’s Merry Grinchmas hosted by The Carousel House. Bring your cameras and phones to grab pictures and selfies with the Grinch. There will also be $5 carousel rides. The Carousel House is located […]
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• Happening today: Annual Kosy Lights Christmas Tree Lighting

  21-11-2024 14:28 via breezynews.com
  
  It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in downtown Kosciusko and that means it’s time for the annual Tree Lighting. Kosy Lights will hold the annual event Thursday, November 21 at 6:30 pm. .In addition to the lights, there will be food, train rides, […]
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• On this day in 1934

  21-11-2024 14:00 via mississippitoday.org
  
  Nov. 21,1934Ella Fitzgerald sings at Downbeat, a New York City jazz club, while Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Brown, Milt (Milton) Jackson, and Timme Rosenkrantz listen.Ella Fitzgerald, the “Queen of Jazz,” made her debut at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. She had planned to go on stage and dance for Amateur Night, but when the Edwards Sisters danced before her, she decided to sing instead. That break led to others, and she became a sensation after a song she co-wrote, “A-Tisket, A-Taske
  
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• Increasingly Colder Temps Forecast Through Friday

  21-11-2024 12:50 via breezynews.com
  
  It’s chilly this morning in central Mississippi.  And it’ll be even colder tonight.  But not as cold as Friday night…. “It will be like a killing frost and the first freeze of the season,” says Mike Edmonston at the National Weather Service in Jackson.  “And […]
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• Mississippians ask U.S. Supreme court to strike state’s Jim Crow-era felony voting ban

  21-11-2024 11:00 via mississippitoday.org
  
  A group of Mississippians who were stripped of their voting rights is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to strike a provision of the state Constitution that allows denial of suffrage to people convicted of some felonies. The Mississippi residents, through attorneys with the Southern Poverty Law Center and private law firm Simpson Thacher and Bartlett, filed an appealFriday with the nation’s highest court. They argue that the provision of the state Constitution that strips voting rights f
  
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• Mississippi Claims the 15th Lowest Median Rent in the U.S. - Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal

  21-11-2024 00:10 via news.google.com
  Mississippi Claims the 15th Lowest Median Rent in the U.S.  Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
  
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• Mississippi Claims the 15th Lowest Median Rent in the U.S. - leader-call.com

  21-11-2024 00:10 via news.google.com
  Mississippi Claims the 15th Lowest Median Rent in the U.S.  leader-call.com
  
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• JXN Water to send notices about lead line inventory

  21-11-2024 00:07 via mississippitoday.org
  
  JXN Water said Wednesday it’s confirmed no lead in about 43% of the city’s service lines, and that it will continue to investigate the remaining lines as it complies with recently updated guidelines from the Environmental Protection Agency.
  A representative for Jacobs, a contractor that manages the city’s drinking water plants for JXN Water, told Mississippi Today their goal is to fully determine whether there’s lead in any of the city’s nearly 75,000 service lines
  
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• Burglary Attempt Foiled in Friendship Community

  20-11-2024 23:40 via breezynews.com
  
  The Attala County Sheriff’s Office (ACSO) stopped an attempted burglary Tuesday afternoon in the Friendship community. Deputies received an anonymous tip from a community member reporting a suspicious vehicle on an old logging road off Highway 43 North, near an abandoned house. Upon arrival, Deputy […]
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• Kosciusko man pleads guilty to civil disorder during Jan. 6 Capitol breach

  20-11-2024 21:18 via breezynews.com
  
  WASHINGTON – A Mississippi man pleaded guilty on Nov. 19, 2024, to a felony charge of civil disorder as a result of his conduct during the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session […]
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• ‘Groundhog Day has come to an end’: Appeals court orders dismissal of Jackson airport authority in lawsuit

  20-11-2024 19:53 via mississippitoday.org
  
  A federal appeals court has ruled, again, that members of Jackson’s airport authority can’t sue over state legislation that would dissolve their commission and create a new regional board to manage the city’s airport.The court overruled a lower federal court decision, and ordered it to dismiss members of the airport authority in a lawsuit to block a state takeover of the Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport.“For the fourth time, Mississippi state legislators
  
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• Felony DUI, Drugs, and Disorderly Conduct in Leake and Attala

  20-11-2024 19:25 via breezynews.com
  
  JERMEL D BALL, 25, of Kosciusko, Possession of a Controlled Substance, Indecent Exposure, Disorderly Conduct – Failure to Comply with LEO, Willful or Malicious Trespass, KPD.  Bond $3,100, $1,200, $1,090, $1,000.   JACOB A DILLION, 46, of Kosciusko, Felony Possession of a Controlled Substance, Contempt […]
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• Mississippi has one of highest stroke mortality rates in US - WJTV

  20-11-2024 19:06 via news.google.com
  Mississippi has one of highest stroke mortality rates in US  WJTV
  
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• Marshall Ramsey: In The Spotlight

  20-11-2024 18:26 via mississippitoday.org
  
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• Deep South Today’s newsrooms host members-only discussion on press freedom

  20-11-2024 17:59 via mississippitoday.org
  
  On Nov. 15, Deep South Today’s network of newsrooms, Mississippi Today and Verite News, hosted a members-only program exploring the pressing challenges facing journalism in the South and their connection to the national fight for press freedom.Mississippi Today Editor-in-Chief Adam Ganucheau and Verite News Editor-in-Chief Terry Baquet were joined by national press freedom experts Emily Wilkins, president of the National Press Club, and William McCarren, director of the Press Freedom Cent
  
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• Audio: City of Kosciusko passes ordinance to combat school enrollment fraud

  20-11-2024 17:40 via breezynews.com
  
  The City of Kosciusko has passed an ordinance to crack down on parents who falsify documents to get their kids into the Kosciusko School District. The ordinance passed with a 4-1 vote during Tuesday night’s meeting of the Kosciusko Board of Aldermen. Kosciusko Mayor Tim […]
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• Whippets, Tigers, and Bulldogs all moving to new districts following MHSAA reclassification

  20-11-2024 17:04 via breezynews.com
  
  The Kosciusko Whippets, Ethel Tigers, and McAdams Bulldogs athletic teams will all compete in new districts for the next two years due to the most recent MHSAA reclassification. While the teams will remain in their same classifications (Kosciusko – 4A; Ethel & McAdams – 1A), […]
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• Podcast:  Mississippi College football is no more

  20-11-2024 17:00 via mississippitoday.org
  
  Monday’s news that Mississippi College will become Mississippi Christian University and discontinue the sport of football caught everyone off guard, including the Clevelands. Fred McAfee, the most famous player in M.C. history, heard the news on the radio and said he felt like he had lost a family member. The Saints, Ole Miss-Florida, and college basketball are also discussed.Stream all episodes here. The latest from rick cleveland Exploring all the many facets of Mississippi College&rsqu
  
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• City of Kosciusko and Attala County set holiday schedule

  20-11-2024 16:14 via breezynews.com
  
  The Kosciusko Board of Aldermen and Attala County Board of Supervisors have set the upcoming holiday schedule. Thanksgiving: Offices closed Thursday, Nov. 28 and Friday, Nov. 29. Christmas Offices closed Christmas Eve (Tuesday, Dec. 24) and Christmas Day (Wednesday, Dec. 25). New Year’s Offices closed […]
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• Christmas Tree Lighting in McCool Set for November 30

  20-11-2024 16:14 via breezynews.com
  
  The Town of McCool will have its annual Chrstmas Tree Lighting on November 30 at 6 pm.
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