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Karli Fortenberey slides in safely to home
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Kainsley Bennett drives it into right field
By Laurence Hilliard
Kosciusko split the first two games of a 4A softball playoff series with Mooreville because of one nightmarish inning. Game 3 was postponed Monday due to the forecast of rain, with a makeup date to be determined.
Kosciusko led the first game 2-1 and was one strike from victory when disaster struck. Mooreville scored nine unearned runs for a 10-2 victory.
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By Laurence Hilliard
Kosciusko is playing its best baseball when it matters the most. The Whippets outscored two opponents 48-4 in four 4A playoff wins.
15-0 and 14-0 victories over a weak Byhalia team is nothing special. But 12-2 and 7-1 against New Albany, which entered the second round 21-9, was.
“I was proud of the guys. They played hard,” said coach Cole McBride. “They had a really good week of work.”
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Festival goers enjoy different events at the Natchez Trace Festival.
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Festival thrives despite weather challenges
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Summer Scholars On Stage at MSU welcomes four guest artists this June
STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State’s residential musical theater camp, the 2026 Summer Scholars On Stage, is welcoming several talented artists June 7-27.
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MSU Libraries elected to the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) membership
STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State University President Mark E. Keenum today [April 29] congratulated the MSU Libraries’ faculty and staff on their election to membership in the prestigious Association of Research Libraries (ARL).
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Small gardens can support
pollinators with nectar, pollen
By Susan Collins-Smith
MSU Extension Service
RAYMOND, Miss. -- Gardeners who want to help support pollinators do not need a complicated, elaborately planned landscape.
Eddie Smith, host of Mississippi State University Extension Service’s Southern Gardening, said a few well-chosen plants can be very beneficial.
“A container with blooming annuals on a porch, a small bed along a walkway or even a couple of hanging baskets can provide valuable nectar and pollen.
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State farmers change
way they grow rice
By Bonnie Coblentz
MSU Extension Service
STARKVILLE, Miss. -- When a system works, there is little reason to change and many reasons to stick with success; any change in that system is often small things to improve efficiency.
Mississippi’s rice industry is not following that pattern.
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Extension program provides
trauma education, intervention
By Susan Collins-Smith
MSU Extension Service
RAYMOND, Miss. -- Two educational parenting programs designed to help protect Mississippi’s children through support and intervention are making a difference.
Lori Elmore-Staton, a human development and family science specialist with the Mississippi State University Extension Service, said the programs have reached thousands of children and families since 2021.
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JACKSON, MS – The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks (MDWFP) is excited to announce the return of Bear Week, taking place now until May 1, 2026, on MDWFP’s Facebook and Instagram pages. This week offers a behind-the-scenes look at a century of black bear research and conservation in Mississippi, highlighting how those collective efforts have shaped MDWFP’s monitoring and management of the species today.
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CONSERVATION CORNER
(For the week of May 4, 2026)
Ivy, Oak, and Sumac
by James L. Cummins
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Cade leads MSU Extension
disaster response, recovery
By Nathan Gregory
MSU Extension Service
STARKVILLE, Miss. -- A Mississippi State University Extension county coordinator with a comprehensive emergency assistance background has been appointed to lead the organization’s disaster response and recovery efforts.
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MSU bio engineering senior McComb awarded UMMC’s top academic scholarship
STARKVILLE, Miss.—A Mississippi State University biomedical engineering senior from Amory now holds the most prestigious scholarship in the School of Medicine at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.
Will McComb, a 4.0 GPA student at MSU during his four years in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, has been awarded UMMC’s William K. Purks, M.D., Merit Scholarship for the upcoming academic year.
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Ole Miss Professor Preserves Mississippi's Black Church Legacy
Vanessa Charlot photographs the state's oldest religious centers for Black communities
OXFORD, Miss. – University of Mississippi professor Vanessa Charlot walks into Mississippi's oldest Black churches with a camera and questions that go far deeper than inquiring about the historic architecture.
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New state-of-the-art radiation oncology systems offer advanced cancer care at UMMC
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Southern Miss Selects Beckman Scholars for Prestigious Undergraduate Research Program
The University of Southern Mississippi (USM) has selected the 2026 Beckman Scholars, earning them a place in one of the most prestigious programs supporting undergraduate research in the sciences.
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Like its namesake, new Eleanor Turcotte Endowed Scholarship supports MC students
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Amid all the chaos the Trump administration currently has our nation in, you may have missed this breaking news: Another country will soon be added to those that have universal healthcare for all of it's citizens. That country is Mexico. Yes, you read that right, MEXICO. Full implementation will begin in January while Canada already has universal healthcare. So, as of January, here we will sit in AMERICA (the only developed country in the world without universal healthcare for ALL of it's citizens), between two countries that do have universal coverage.
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Amazon has just announced another multi-billion-dollar data center project in Mississippi — the latest in a flood of inward investment now pouring into our state.
But here’s the thing worth reflecting on: even AI-related investments on this scale are only a fraction of what is flowing into data centers and AI infrastructure across the country. What is happening in AI is not just another tech cycle. It is going to be absolutely massive — and genuinely transformative in ways that will touch every kind of institution.
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