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News, notes and quotes: Bibby’s out; Cougars back in state; baseball anyone?
Kelly Donoho/MSU athleticsChloe Bibby (55), a key player in Mississippi State’s 17-1 start, will miss the rest of the season with an injury to her left knee. News, notes, quotes and an opinion or two…...
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Mississippi Delta students contribute to film that debuts at 2019 Sundance...
Sunflower County Film AcademyOmar Washington, a student with the Young Filmmakers’ Workshop, films a scene for Lonnie Holley’s, I Snuck Off The Slave Ship, which will premiere at the Sundance Film...
View ArticleMarshall Ramsey: Life’s Constants
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Clarksdale vote on infrastructure improvements advances despite legislative...
CLARKSDALE – Two months ago, city officials announced plans for a special election in August for voters to weigh in on two issues – one allowing the city to hold the Clarksdale Public Utilities...
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Election 2019: Will Mississippians reclaim state’s history of political debates?
Rogelio V. Solis / Associated Press / PoolAppointed U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., did not debate in the lead up to the first election in 2018. After no candidate garnered a majority vote,...
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Flooding, bridge closure leave some in Delta community stuck and walled off
The combination of flooding and a closed bridge has left some Delta residents stuck waiting for the water to recede. In Winterville, a rural town about eight miles north of Greenville, 71-year-old...
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Before record-setting Jake Mangum, there was Jeffrey Rea, another relentless...
Mississippi State media relationsJeffrey Rea, like Jake Mangum who broke his Mississippi State hits record, was a line drive waiting to happen. Jake Mangum, a line drive waiting to happen, recently...
View ArticleMarshall Ramsey: Notre Dame
The fire at #NotreDame was horrific. Hundreds of years of history have been destroyed right before our eyes. The post Marshall Ramsey: Notre Dame appeared first on Mississippi Today.
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State-run Achievement School District ready to launch, will take over two...
Eric J. Shelton, Mississippi Today/Reporter for AmericaAdrienne Hudson, founder of grassroots education nonprofit RISE Inc., says there are several reasons Delta districts like Humphreys County and...
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Legislators give up effort to block funds sneaked in budget for private...
Kayleigh Skinner/Mississippi TodayLt. Gov. Reeves speaks at a school choice rally in the Capitol rotunda on Jan. 24, 2017. Those trying to block a $2 million increase for a program that sends public...
View ArticleMarshall Ramsey: Recovery
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‘I think he’s more electable than Tate’: Four past GOP chairmen throw support...
Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Bill Waller in Starkville, Miss., Tuesday, April 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis) Several former leaders of the Mississippi Republican Party are lining up behind...
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Mississippi jailer’s #FeelingCute Challenge post no joking matter, prisoners’...
The families of some Mississippi prisoners are calling on state prison officials to take action against a correctional officer after a posting about cruel treatment of inmates as part of an internet...
View ArticleMarshall Ramsey: The Fairest of Them All
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Jay Ladner gets Southern Miss job he always wanted
Jay Ladner, center, was introduced as the new head basketball coach at Southern Miss Thursday. Here, he is surrounded by the two men who hired him, athletic director Jeremy McClain, left, and president...
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Mississippi Delta students contribute to film that debuts at 2019 Sundance...
Sunflower County Film AcademyOmar Washington, a student with the Young Filmmakers’ Workshop, films a scene for Lonnie Holley’s, I Snuck Off The Slave Ship, which will premiere at the Sundance Film...
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Some history – and future – at The New Dude
Ron Polk’s plaque in the Ron Polk Ring of Honor was dedicated Saturday at Dudy Noble Field in Starkville. STARKVILLE – So much Mississippi baseball history – and so much of the future – were on display...
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‘They’re easiest to step on’: The real reason why families in the Delta, one...
Eric J. Shelton, Mississippi Today/Report For AmericaWilliam Ayers plays basketball with his foster children, Kayden Pam, center, and Jamaine Pittman in the backyard of his home in Greenville, Miss....
View ArticleMarshall Ramsey: Easter Egg
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View ArticleMarshall Ramsey: Flood for thought
It has been 40 years since Jackson turned into the Venice of the South. There's still no solution to keep it from happening again. The post Marshall Ramsey: Flood for thought appeared first on...
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