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1949 was a stressful year. Three global crises placed an enormous amount of pressure on American leaders, and no one experienced the pressure more intensely than President Harry Truman.
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As renewable energy disparager President Donald Trump continues to prop up and promote coal and fossil fuel industries, Mississippi finds itself on a path to grow industries producing renewable energy alternatives to coal.
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“Who you gonna’ believe? Me or your lying eyes.” Substitute Entergy’s spokesperson for Chico Marx, and you have the current gaslighting telling you don’t believe what you see happening in other states and what common sense tells you will happen here. Just trust Entergy not to raise electric rates for small customers to benefit Amazon’s data centers.
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Every year has its challenges and this one is no different. On the opposite page, Jonathan Kettler writes about the start of 1949 and all the challenges faced that year. It provides a real sense of perspective.
The Sun is a community newspaper so we like to focus on local news but the decimation of local news by Big Tech has caused more focus on national and international news. It is human nature to focus on what’s there.
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In addition to advancing ARC investments, Governor Reeves as the States’ Co-Chair also hosts ARC’s annual conference, which will take place on June 2-4, 2026, in Starkville.
Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves (R) has been elected by his fellow Appalachian governors to serve as the 2026 Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) States’ Co-Chair.
ARC announced the news on Monday morning, noting that Reeves will serve as ARC’s 73rd States’ Co-Chair and the sixth Mississippi Governor to hold the position since 1965.
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In Mississippi
1. City, JXN Water set for hearing before Wingate
A hearing is set for Wednesday before U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate regarding the future of JXN Water, its billing and other matters.
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Dennis Drain of the Paynes community holds up a 130-pound river catfish that he pulled from the Tallahatchie River late Tuesday. (Photo by Clay McFerrin, Copyright 2026, Emmerich Newspapers Inc.)
Dennis Drain of the Paynes community stopped outside the Tallahatchie County Jail in Charleston Tuesday night to show off his latest prize catch: a river catfish that he said weighed in at 130 pounds.
Drain said he caught the fish, which was estimated to measure more than 5 feet long, while hook-and-line fishing in the Tallahatchie River near Graball Landing Tuesday evening. He was using cut bait as lure.
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2 months 3 weeks ago
A defense fog advisory has been issued for a large swath of Mississippi from 11 tonight until 10 a.m. Wednesday.
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Mississippi Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann used a speech to the Stennis Press Forum on Monday to declare the state in its strongest fiscal and educational position in memory, while urging lawmakers to build on recent gains with new spending on teachers, infrastructure, cybersecurity and rural services. Below is a summary of the talk produced by Perplexity AI followed by the entire transcript of Hosemann's talk.
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GREENVILLE — Funeral services for John Wesley Brewer, Sr., 95, of Greenville, who passed Saturday, Jan. 3, at Bolivar Medical Center, Cleveland, will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 7, at Emmanuel Baptist Church, Greenville. The family will receive friends from 9 a.m. until the start of the service.
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Below is a religion column by Matt Friedeman:
Matt Friedeman says if you earnestly pray these eight lines from Psalms 119 and pour your heart out to God, you may well have the best year you have ever had.
It’s a new year. Want to pray with greater intensity and personal transformation than ever before?
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CHARLESTON — Earline M. Fillyaw, age 83, passed away Thursday, Jan. 1, at her home in Charleston.
Funeral services will be held 3 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 6, with visitation one hour prior, at Adams Arbor Church of God of Prophecy. Interment will follow in Adams Arbor Cemetery. Newsom Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.
She was preceded in death by her daughter, Angela Todd.
She is survived by her son, Brian Wilkes of Courtland; 6 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.
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CHARLESTON — Kathy Annette Rogers Dungan, age 70, registered nurse, passed away, Wednesday, Dec. 31.
Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Monday, Jan. 5, at Newsom Funeral Home with interment following in Magnolia Gardens Cemetery at Paynes.
She is survived by her husband, Donnie Dungan; two sons, Joshua Dungan and Christopher Dungan; and a granddaughter.
The family requests memorials be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
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In Mississippi
1. Jury selection in Dibiase trial begins Tuesday
Former wrestler Ted DiBiase Jr. will stand trial in Mississippi for his alleged role in the state’s largest public embezzlement scheme using TANF funds.
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2 months 4 weeks ago
The 2026 session of the Mississippi Legislature is ready to go, and from the looks of things, the Republican majorities in both chambers must prepare to compromise to get anything high on their wish list accomplished.
A recent story on the Magnolia Tribune website explored education issues ranging from school choice to teacher pay raises; and increased financial assistance for the Public Employees Retirement System to start decreasing its $26 billion unfunded liability.
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Below is an opinion column by Sid Salter:
Columnist Sid Salter writes that you don’t have to be from Mississippi to respect its complexity. You do have to resist the urge to simplify it.
The brutal, disturbing murder of iconic Hollywood actor and filmmaker Rob Reiner in recent days brought to mind his time making a movie in Mississippi in the 1990s.
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David Keary, CEO and Executive Artistic Director of Ballet Mississippi, brings The Nutcracker to life each year for Mississippians who come from all over to enjoy the classic production.
Music critics wrote scathing reviews after the premiere performance of The Nutcracker in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1892. The ballet, a worldwide Christmas tradition for millions today, could have ended up in the dustbin of history if those original critics had had their way.
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Mississippi already knows how to do Christmas. Now, more and more, the cameras do too, fake snow and all!
There’s something about Mississippi at Christmas that feels ready-made for the movies. Courthouse squares glow. Downtown storefronts sparkle. Brick streets look like they’ve been waiting all year for twinkle lights and wreaths. And lately, that familiar holiday feeling comes with film crews, cameras, and fake snow blowing down Main Street.
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Ten sure-fire ways to help prevent the post-holiday blues this season.
Anticipation is a powerful thing, especially during the Christmas season. Advent is a time of anticipating the birth of our Savior. For children, the days leading up to Christmas are filled with anticipation of Santa’s arrival.
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