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Local and area unemployment rates for July are shown in this illustration from the Mississippi Department of Employment Security.

Tallahatchie County’s unemployment rate fell to 3.4% in July, according to the Mississippi Department of Employment Security’s monthly Labor Market . . .

Magnolia Mornings: September 10, 2026

Important state and national stories, market and business news, sports and entertainment, delivered in quick-hit fashion In Mississippi 1. Lockheed . . .

Congressman Bennie G. Thompson Mississippi Second Congressional District 2026 College and Career Fair set, vendors revealed

Congressman Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS District 2) is gearing up to host the17th Annual College and Career Fair on Thursday . . .

The Charleston residential property of Pam McFerrin, located at 839 George Payne Cossar Blvd., has been selected by the Charleston Magnolia Garden Club as its “Yard of the Month” award recipient for September. The club designates a Charleston-area lawn for the beautification honor based on criteria including basic principles of landscape design: unity, balance, contrast and harmony, color, transition, line, proportion and repetition.

Pam McFerrin wins 'Yard of the Month' honor

Opinion: Both sides of the data center debate

If you think a sizable percentage of the American public is undecided about the ongoing construction of data centers around . . .

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Postal service doesn’t run elections
Wed,09/09/26-3:06PM , 3,416 Reads 33,840 Statewide
Concede one point to President Donald Trump on the question of voter fraud. If election cheating is going to occur during an election, it’s more likely to occur with mailed ballots than in-person ones.
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Jewell Lang
Tue,09/08/26-9:55AM , 1,016 Reads
CHARLESTON — Jewell Lang, age 92, passed away Wednesday, August 26.
Visitation will be held 1-5 p.m. Friday, September 11, at Clark Williams Funeral Home in Grenada.
Funeral services will be held 1 p.m. Saturday, September 12, at Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church near Cascilla with interment following in the church cemetery.
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Federal Court Rejects Constitutional Claims In Mississippi Water Case
By TIMOTHY HOLDINESS
Sun,09/06/26-1:48PM , 696 Reads 23,021 Statewide
A federal appeals court rejected constitutional claims brought by Jackson, Mississippi, residents who alleged city officials exposed them to lead in their drinking water and misled them about its safety.
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The Charleston residential property of Pam McFerrin, located at 839 George Payne Cossar Blvd., has been selected by the Charleston Magnolia Garden Club as its “Yard of the Month” award recipient for September. The club designates a Charleston-area lawn for the beautification honor based on criteria including basic principles of landscape design: unity, balance, contrast and harmony, color, transition, line, proportion and repetition.

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Pam McFerrin wins 'Yard of the Month' honor
By CLAY MCFERRIN - Editor and Publisher, Charleston Sun-Sentinel
Thu,09/10/26-1:51PM , 629 Reads
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9/11, now 25 years later

According to the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, an estimated 100 million people have been born in the United States since the terrorist attacks on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001.

Nearly one-third of the present-day population of this country were not alive on 9/11 or either were too young to remember the events firsthand.

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