CUSA’s desperate experiment begins Saturday with UAB playing at Southern Miss
Southern Miss media relationsDoc Sadler, far right, has instructions for Cortez Edwards, 1, and Tyree Griffin, 55, two of the players who have led Southern Miss to six straight victories. When Kermit...
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View ArticleRobert Shuler Smith, Hinds DA claiming to be a ‘modern day lynching’ victim,...
Associated PressFrom left: Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood and Hinds County District Attorney Robert Shuler Smith Robert Shuler Smith, the Hinds County district attorney and a target of multiple...
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Stock imageState spending is about $80 million less for K-12 education than for the rest of the state budget, when inflation is considered. Since 2008, funding for public education has not kept pace...
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View Article‘Promises after promises’: State workers, stuck under stagnant wages, have no...
Eric J. Shelton, Mississippi Today/Report For AmericaClarise Martin, 62, has worked at the Adams County DHS office for 30 years. She is one of thousands of state employees whose salary falls far below...
View ArticleHave casinos helped schools in Mississippi? What state rules on gaming...
JOHN FITZHUGH / SUN HERALD FILEA worker wipes down one of the slot machines before the ribbon cutting at the Island View Casino Resort’s new nonsmoking casino in Gulfport on Thursday, June 21, 2018....
View ArticleOle Miss handled players kneeling during national anthem about as well as...
Nathanael Gabler/The Oxford Eagle, via Associated PressWhile some fans booed, others supported the six Ole Miss basketball players who knelt during the national anthem in protest of a pro-Confederate...
View ArticleMarshall Ramsey: One weekend in Oxford
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View ArticleFinancial support for public schools — and population — are shrinking in...
File Photo/Clarion LedgerIn this file photo, reading coach Lakisha Watkins practices word sounds and spelling with third-graders at Goodloe Elementary School in Canton. As Mississippi prepares to raise...
View ArticleMarshall Ramsey: May The Odds Be Ever In Your Favor
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View Article‘Promises after promises’: State workers, stuck under stagnant wages, have no...
Eric J. Shelton, Mississippi Today/Report For AmericaClarise Martin, 62, has worked at the Adams County DHS office for 30 years. She is one of thousands of state employees whose salary falls far below...
View Article‘They need someone rooting for them’: Small town teacher finds joy by...
Barbara Gauntt/Clarion LedgerFourth grade English teacher Kristy Thomas is known to keep a smile on her face, even when lecturing students who have broken classroom rules at William Dean Jr. Elementary...
View ArticleMarshall Ramsey: Jim Hood’s New Competition
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View ArticleHeartbreak at Oxford: No. 7 Vols pull out difficult victory over Rebels
Eric J. Shelton, Mississippi Today/Report For AmericaBreein Tyree went to the floor, hands over his face, after Tennessee clinched victory over Ole Miss Wednesday night in Oxford. OXFORD – Let’s get...
View ArticleCorinth takes year-round approach with school calendar
Adam Robison/Northeast Mississippi Daily JournalJourdan Cox, a second-grader at Corinth Elementary School, works on an iPad as part of the school’s Blended Learning Model. CORINTH – The Corinth...
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View ArticleThis Ole Miss hoops story just got real
Rogelio V. Solis / Associated PressMississippi head coach Kermit Davis reacts to a official’s call in the second half of a college basketball game against Mississippi State, Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019 in...
View ArticleMarshall Ramsey: The Secret List
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View ArticleJody Owens, leader of Mississippi civil rights group, to run for Hinds DA
R.L. Nave, Mississippi TodayThe Southern Poverty Law Center filed a lawsuit in federal court over the state’s voter disenfranchisement laws. From left: Attorneys Jonathan Youngwood and Jody Owens with...
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