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CHARLESTON — Lydel Tinnon Sr., age 57, a retired United States Army veteran, passed away due to injuries sustained in an automobile accident on Friday, Dec. 5.
Visitation will be held 4-6 p.m. Friday, Dec. 19, at J Brown Community Funeral Services in Charleston.
Funeral services will be held 12 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 20, at Massey Grove Missionary Baptist Church near Oakland.
Interment will follow at Pine Grove Cemetery.
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There is nothing quite like stepping outside in the fall, taking a deep breath of fresh air ... and catching a snoutful of skunk scent.
No doubt, the pungent aroma can be found in practically any location anywhere. After all, skunks are mobile, you know.
However, our attention has been most forcibly drawn to the presence of skunk scent outside public places and in public parking lots in and around Charleston.
The city reeks of the musty, funky odor.
By Clay McFerrin - Editor and Publisher, Charleston Sun-Sentinel on
3 months 2 weeks ago
I recently downloaded ChatGPT and asked: What are the three top reasons why an undecided person would choose to support President Trump? It replied: (1) Economic Priorities and Policy Preferences; (2) Immigration and Border Policy; (3) Distrust of Political Establishment. Let’s see what the scoreboard says about each.
By Patrick Taylor on
3 months 2 weeks ago
I only recently learned what a “groyper” is - you may or may not be familiar with the term?
From what I can tell, a groyper is a hardline white nationalist. Often anti-Semitic, groypers are hostile to mainstream conservatives. To the extent they have a coherent agenda, groypers seem more national socialism than free-market capitalism.
Having been involved in the conservative movement for three decades, I’d hesitate to call anyone with such views conservative. Indeed, I’d argue people that think like that are essentially hardline leftists.
By Douglas Carswell - Mississippi Center for Public Policy on
3 months 2 weeks ago
For the most recent decades of my 87 years, Vietnam’s position on my vacation bucket list mirrored the rank of casinos on my list of steps to ensure a comfortable retirement. I have friends who vacationed there and loved it, and I had friends who got sent there and came back in a box. Other friends returned damaged, and a disturbing number of them died young. My own years of military service during the 1960s took me nowhere near Vietnam; even so, I wasn’t interested in seeing the place. That changed last October.
By William Jeanes on
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My grandmother lived on Cloverleaf Circle in my early years. Her home was located just a few blocks west of Bailey Avenue, just off Palmyra Street. Homes on her street were wood- framed, simply- built houses of no more than 1,000 square feet.
My family would go for an obligatory visit each Sunday, following lunch at Morrison’s cafeteria in the old Milner Building on South Lamar Street. My brother and I quickly became bored with the small talk and heavy cigarette smoke from the adults in the tiny living room and would retreat to her backyard.
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3 months 3 weeks ago
GREENWOOD — Funeral services for Yvonne W. Tanner, age 65, nurse practitioner, will be held 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 13, at St. Francis of Assisi Church in Greenwood.
Interment will follow in Wheeler Cemetery.
A public viewing will be held 1-5 p.m. Friday, Dec. 12, at Century Funeral Home in Greenwood.
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Each year they come.
We can’t wait for them to get here.
Lots of planning and extra effort around the house go into getting ready for our family Thanksgiving; and it is totally beyond worth it!
Because Andrew and his wife Laura Ann are near us, we all pitch in with our son Daniel and his wife Jayme and daughters Gracie (17) and Addie (6) long distance in New Orleans to plan menus and things to do in the few days we can share around school and work.
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CHARLESTON — Beverly Ann Jennings Milam, age 73, passed away peacefully at her home Wednesday, Dec. 10.
Visitation will be held Friday, Dec. 12, at Womble Funeral Home from 12 until 2 p.m. Graveside services will follow at Magnolia Gardens in Paynes with Bro. Shelly Scallions officiating.
Born on September 11, 1952, Beverly was the daughter of the late LP Jennings and Maxine Yarbrough Jennings.
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Below is a press release from the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics:
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recently released their State Employment and Unemployment Summary for September of 2025.
Unemployment rates were higher in September in 8 states, lower in 2 states, and stable in 40 states and the District of Columbia, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Eighteen states and the District had jobless rate increases from a year earlier, 9 states had decreases, and 23 states had little change.
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3 months 3 weeks ago
Northsider Pete Perry is headed to the United States Supreme Court. That’s a big deal.
Pete Perry is one of two individual plaintiffs named in a legal issue involving how election rules are set. The lawsuit pits the Republican Party of Mississippi against the State of Mississippi. The issue is whether mail in ballots have to be received by the constitutionally mandated election date or whether they can be postmarked by that date and physically arrive days later.
Or to put more exactly, quoting the petition for writ of certiorari:
Question Presented
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3 months 3 weeks ago
Kenneth McGowan, a senior studying computer engineering, poses for a portrait at Mississippi State University in Starkville, on Aug. 18, 2025. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today
The new unexpected expenses are hitting budgets at the same time as tuition increases and other general rising costs such as food and electricity.
Since transferring to Mississippi State University from Itawamba Community College in 2022, the cost of parking on campus has always been an issue for Madeline Comer.
Last spring, Comer got a $50 parking ticket because her license plates weren’t registered properly with the university’s parking services, she said. Comer, a junior studying graphic design, called to dispute the ticket.
By Candice Wilder - Mississippi Today on
3 months 3 weeks ago
The Venerable Bhikkhu Pannakara, at the front of the line, is the spiritual leader of the Walk for Peace. He led other Buddhist monks and their dog, Aloka, as they crossed the Natchez-Vidalia Bridge from Louisiana and arrived in Natchez, Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, on Day 41 of their 2,300-mile pilgrimage to Washington to promote peace and kindness. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today
Buddhist monks from Fort Worth, Texas, are walking on a 2,300-mile, 110-day pilgrimage to Washington, D.C., to promote peace, unity and kindness.
They left Oct. 26 from their Huong Dao Vipassana Bhavana Center.
By Vickie D. King - Mississippi Today on
3 months 3 weeks ago
In a rare show of bipartisan cooperation, Mississippi’s congressional delegation has sent a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer with concerns that new regulations implemented by the European Union will harm the state’s forestry industry.
The delegation wrote that the E.U. regulations “introduce substantial uncertainty” for the forestry industry and risk “further depressing already strained log and wood-product markets, harming rural communities that depend on healthy, functioning timber economies.”
By Katherine Lin - Mississippi Today on
3 months 3 weeks ago
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1. Special election set for Court of Appeals Judge, District 1, Position 1
Governor Tate Reeves announced Tuesday that he has set a special election for the Office of Court of Appeals Judge, District 1, Position 1.
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