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Licensing ‘misunderstanding’ may cost some teachers their jobs, heightening...
Rogelio V. Solis, APSome teachers will lose their jobs because of an administrative issue at a time when the teacher shortage is at an all-time high. Toward the end of the school year and after...
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Inaugural Mississippi Food and Wine festival a new destination on the...
Photo by Frank Farmer/Fondren RenaissanceMore than 100 beers from dozens of breweries are on tap for this year’s Mississippi Craft Beer Festival. The Mississippi Food and Wine festival debuts June...
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When serious baseball turns into a party: Diamond Dogs headed back to Omaha
Aaron Cornia/Mississippi State AthleticsAfter a wild post-game celebration, Mississippi State’s Bulldogs –or OmaDawgs – posed for this photo. STARKVILLE – Mississippi State was cruising, up 5-1 in the...
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Lt. Governor Tate Reeve's latest television ad vows to save our state license plate. The post Marshall Ramsey: Emergency! appeared first on Mississippi Today.
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Republicans campaign, fundraise on protecting new license plates from...
Rogelio V. Solis, Associated PressMississippi’s Republican second-term state treasurer Lynn Fitch, announces at a Monday, Jan. 14, 2019 news conference at the Capitol in Jackson, Miss., that she is...
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Reeves banks $6.3 million, far outdistancing all others in governor campaign...
Eric J. Shelton, Mississippi Today/Report For AmericaMississippi governor candidate Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves speaks during the Rankin County Republican Women’s “Meet the Candidates” event at the Brandon...
View ArticleMarshall Ramsey: The Dead Zone
Flooding from the Mississippi River is pumping large amounts of fresh water into the Gulf of Mexico, killing sea life. The post Marshall Ramsey: The Dead Zone appeared first on Mississippi Today.
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Disasters are regional and miserable if you happen to be affected. Salt in the wound is when you feel like you are (or really are) ignored. The post Marshall Ramsey: The Flood appeared first on...
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Telephone scam crackdown: New state law enables Public Service Commission to...
Just about the time legislators were passing a bill during the 2019 session to strengthen the state’s Telephone Solicitation Act, the office of Northern District Public Service Commissioner Brandon...
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Child Protection Services failed to meet settlement requirements in foster...
Mississippi’s Child Protection Services agency failed to meet most of the requirements in its long-running Olivia Y settlement agreement, according to a report from a neutral court monitor. The monitor...
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Jackson sues Siemens for $225M in ‘bait and switch’ over faulty water meters,...
Eric J. Shelton, Mississippi Today/ Report for AmericaJackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba speaks to media at City Hall Thursday, June 28, 2018. Seven years after Jackson, a 200-year-old city with...
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Lt. Governor Tate Reeve's latest television ad vows to save our state license plate. The post Marshall Ramsey: Emergency! appeared first on Mississippi Today.
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Mississippi medical marijuana initiative closes in on enough signatures for...
Steven Senne, Associated PressMichael Dundas, CEO of Sira Naturals, Inc., stands for a photograph among cannabis plants, Thursday, July 12, 2018, at the Sira Naturals medical marijuana cultivation...
View ArticleMarshall Ramsey: Jackson’s Water Woes
Jackson sues Siemens for $225M in ‘bait and switch’ over faulty water meters, billing system. The post Marshall Ramsey: Jackson’s Water Woes appeared first on Mississippi Today.
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Clarksdale mayor launches GoFundMe page to raise $3 million to rehabilitate...
Aallyah Wright, Mississippi TodayClarksdale Mayor Chuck Espy (center) lays out five-point plan to help reduce crime on Monday morning in late May CLARKSDALE – As Clarksdale Mayor Chuck Espy made...
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South Delta residents, enduring the longest flood since 1927, hope the EPA...
Eric J. Shelton, Mississippi Today/Report For AmericaStormy Deere navigates her boat to dry land near Redwood, Miss., Tuesday, June 4, 2019. Deere has lived at her home with her husband Jimmy for 12...
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Third-graders reading test: Kids’ reading ability linked to visual skills,...
Melanie Thortis / © The 'SipChildren need visual skills to excel in the classroom. In May, 9,000 Mississippi third-graders – a quarter of those in the state – learned they’re at risk of being held back...
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College World Series: Skill is a must, but luck counts, too – witness...
Mississippi State athleticsMississippi State’s 1985 Bulldogs were undefeated and seemed to be cruising at the 1985 College Wolrld Series when pitcher Gene Morgan (being examined) was hit by a line...
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She switched to an insurance plan that covered her treatment. Her bill...
Klara Reid was diagnosed in 2011 with Mycobacterium abscessus complex. The incurable infection effects her lungs. The condition resulted in Reid retiring from her job in 2013. She changed to an...
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‘Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now’: Rare art form on display in...
Courtesy of the Mississippi Museum of ArtAuguste Edouart, “Thomas Sully,” 1843. lithograph, chalk and cut paper on paper. Gift of Robert L. McNeil, Jr. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian...
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