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The West Tallahatchie Alumni Booster Club recently recognized several students for their outstanding achievements during award ceremonies held at R.H. Bearden Elementary School and West Tallahatchie School District.
During the sixth-grade promotion ceremony May 21, sixth-grade student Landin Johnson was honored with a Certificate of Excellence for his outstanding performance on the field as a member of the West Tallahatchie Junior High football team.
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What was your favorite summer memory as a child?
I talked to my super great friend today and asked her this question. Guess what she said?
On Wednesday, her dad had the afternoon off. Every Wednesday he took her to Linden Lake to swim and play in the water. He stayed with her. They talked. They had a great time and on the way home they always stopped and got a snow cone! So delicious. Such a special time. “I’m sure he had many other things he wanted to do or needed to do on his afternoon off, but he chose to spend it with me.”
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“In terms of my heartburn level for emergency preparedness at the state level, I don’t have very much,” Dr. Daniel Edney said. “It’s just one of the things that we’ve always done really well in Mississippi.”
Even though Mississippi’s public health emergency preparedness performance ranking has fallen, State Health Officer Dr. Daniel Edney remains confident of the systems in place to protect the public.
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Advocates supporting the Safe Solicitation Act in 2025 cited the need for local law enforcement to have more ability to crack down on panhandling while those opposed to the measure claimed it adversely impacted the homeless population seeking assistance.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi (ACLU) have filed a class action complaint challenging Mississippi’s law aimed at giving local governments an option to regulate panhandling.
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Owen is currently serving in his second term in the Mississippi House of Representatives, where is the Vice Chairman of the Judiciary B Committee.
State Rep. Jansen Owen (R) will not be seeking re-election to his House District 106 seat next year, choosing instead to run for District Attorney for the 15th Circuit Court District which includes Marion, Pearl River, Lamar, and Walthall counties.
Owen made his 2027 intentions known Thursday after District Attorney Hal Kittrell recently announced that he will not seek re-election.
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Terry Pitchford was sentenced to death for his role in the murder of a store owner near Grenada. His attorneys claim the jury that convicted the now 40-year-old was racially biased.
The U.S. Supreme Court has sided with a black death row inmate from Mississippi who claimed the makeup of the jury that convicted him was racially biased.
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ATLANTA – The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has approved more than $4.7 million in funding to support 11 recovery projects in Mississippi communities affected by the January 2026 severe winter storm and March 2025 severe storms, including Glendora in Tallahatchie County.
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The two Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang members who illegally entered the U.S. traveled throughout Mississippi reprogramming bank ATMs to dispense large amounts of cash.
Darrin Moises Daza-Segura and Winder Alexander Canelon-Tiapa have been sentenced for conspiracy to commit bank fraud in Mississippi, the Attorney General’s Office announced Friday.
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The Mississippi State Board of Election Commissioners is asked the U.S. District Court to allow additional discovery and briefs ahead of oral arguments in the judicial redistricting case. State Senator Derrick Simmons and his fellow plaintiffs, represented by the SPLC and ACLU, say that isn’t needed.
No agreement was reached this week between the Mississippi State Board of Election Commissioners and the plaintiffs challenging the current state Supreme Court district maps.
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CHARLESTON — Excel Reed, age 58, passed away Tuesday, June 2.
Visitaiton will be held 1-5 p.m. Friday, June 12, at Clark-Williams Funeral Home in Greanda.
A celebration of life will be held 3 p.m. Saturday, June 13, at Rocky Branch Missionary Baptist Church near Charleston.
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Mississippi has nearly $205 million for the first budget period of a five-year grant through the federal Rural Health Transformation Program established in the One Big Beautiful Bill.
Claims of a lack of transparency in Mississippi’s Rural Health Transformation Program were addressed during a joint meeting held by members of the House and Senate on Thursday.
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Below is an opinion column by Kelley Williams:
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers caused Mudberg, a sediment plug in the Mississippi River that reduces the river’s discharge to the Gulf and makes floods inside the levees higher, longer, and more destructive.
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” — Upton Sinclair, 1934
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EVE Energy is the technology partner in the nearly $2 billion joint venture that established Amplify Cell Technologies. Mississippi lawmakers approved incentives for what was referred to as “Project Poppy” in January 2024.
The U.S. Department of War has listed Chinese lithium iron phosphate battery maker EVE Energy as a “Chinese military company.”
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The Mississippi Democrat nominee for U.S. Senate is getting advertising help ahead of the November midterm election as he seeks to unseat incumbent Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith.
A Democrat-aligned super PAC announced Tuesday morning that it was launching a $50 million ad campaign ahead of the November midterms targeting House and Senate races in traditionally safe Republican areas, including in Mississippi.
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Below is a political opinion column by Roger Wicker:
U.S. Senator Roger Wicker says while waterways have always been a key part of Mississippi commerce, in the last decade, the state has also become a hub of 21st century maritime science and innovation.
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A study from Paragon Health Institute says Mississippi has the highest proportion of ACA enrollees with unknown race or ethnicity in 2026 of any state in their analysis, “a sign that enrollment intermediaries may be signing up people without their knowledge or consent.”
A new report from the Paragon Health Institute estimates that 47% of all Mississippi sign-ups during the 2026 Affordable Care Act (ACA) enrollment period were improper.
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Below is an religion column by Matt Friedeman:
We can say that Jesus is our Savior; but anything or anyone else that receives more of our attention than loving and serving Christ displaces Him from His rightful place as Lord of our lives.
A friend once informed me, “we are all being discipled.”
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Restaurateur Robert St. John says his face is the one out front, but the real work happens behind him.
The cooks didn’t show up.
Not one of them. Not the prep cook, not the dishwasher, not the line cook who was supposed to be loading in the food delivery by eight. It was 1989. The restaurant was barely two years old. We had a full lunch on the books at eleven and nobody to cook it.
Except me.
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The Hinds County representative had served in the Mississippi House since 2020.
State Rep. Bo Brown (D) has died following a lengthy illness, his family said Monday.
Brown, 81, had served in the Mississippi House of Representatives since 2020 representing District 20 in Hinds County. He was appointed to the House committees for Judiciary B, Medicaid and Transportation.
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