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  • Opinion: Low rankings for Mississippi

    Wed,08/17/22-6:28PM, 491 Reads 5,210 Statewide

    Mississippi has taken a one-two punch from the Wallet Hub website. This week the personal-finance site ranked the state the worst one in America to live in, while last week its statistics said Mississippi is the state with the highest percentage of underprivileged children.

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  • Another Tallahatchian claimed by COVID, per MSDH

    By CLAY MCFERRIN
    Thu,08/18/22-11:06AM, 250 Reads

    The COVID-19 death toll in Tallahatchie County now stands at 62 after the Mississippi State Department of Health on Monday announced yet another local victim of the pandemic.

    The death was one of four in Mississippi that MSDH said occurred from Aug. 10-12.

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  • Trump Organization's former Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg, center, leaves court, Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022, in New York. Weisselberg pled guilty on Thursday to tax violations in a deal that would require him to testify about business practices at the former president's company. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
    Trump Organization's former Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg, center, leaves court, Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022, in New York. Weisselberg pled guilty on Thursday to tax violations in a deal that would require him to testify about business practices at the former president's company. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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    Trump executive pleads guilty in tax case, agrees to testify

    By MICHAEL R. SISAK - Associated Press
    Thu,08/18/22-12:33AM, 229 Reads

    NEW YORK (AP) — A top executive at former President Donald Trump’s family business pleaded guilty Thursday to evading taxes on a free apartment and other perks, striking a deal with prosecutors that could make him a star witness against the company at a trial this fall.

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  • Football on tap, Tony Vance named vice president of state coaches group

    By CLAY MCFERRIN
    Thu,08/18/22-12:00PM, 190 Reads

    If you’re anxious for some football, the calendar is smiling upon you.

    The state’s independent and private schools begin pigskin play this Friday night, while the regular-season kickoff for public schools is set for Friday, Aug. 26.

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  • STARKVILLE MAN SENTENCED TO 78 MONTHS FOR PPP FRAUD OF MORE THAN $6 MILLION

    By ROBIN BAILEY
    Mon,08/15/22-10:13AM, 2,873 Reads

    OXFORD – A Starkville man was sentenced on Friday to 78 months in prison for more than $6 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) fraud.

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  • Tim Kalich

    Reeves feels scandal’s heat

    By TIM KALICH - Greenwood Commonwealth
    Fri,08/12/22-10:16PM, 1,516 Reads 14,514 Statewide

    You can always tell that a news story has hit the mark when the subject of it attacks the source of the news rather than addresses the substance of the story.

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  • Press release with video link: Vehicle footage clears trooper in McComb incident

    By BAILEY MARTIN - Mississippi Department of Public Safety
    Fri,08/12/22-3:00PM, 1,281 Reads

    Editor's note: The following press release was emailed to media outlets from the Mississippi Department of Public Safety at about 2 p.m. Friday, Aug. 12. 

    WARNING: Video contains graphic language.

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  • This frame grab from a video released Friday by the Mississippi Department of Public Safety shows Mississippi highway Patrol state trooper Hayden Falvey placing Eugene Lewis in handcuffs prior to searching his car during an Aug. 5 traffic stop in McComb.

    State trooper cleared of misconduct

    By MATT WILLIAMSON
    Fri,08/12/22-7:00PM, 1,234 Reads 12,646 Statewide

    By Matt Williamson

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    A Mississippi Highway Patrol state trooper has been cleared of wrongdoing in an Aug. 5 arrest that was the subject of a viral live-streamed video in which two brothers alleged a third was being mistreated when he was being detained.

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    Three arrested for fraud in Yalobusha County

    By LOGAN REEVES
    Thu,07/21/22-10:31AM, 14,904 Reads

    JACKSON – State Auditor Shad White announced Thursday that former Coffeeville School District Superintendent Vivian Robinson and alleged co-conspirators Melissa Nance and Tammy Briggs have been arrested on charges of fraudulent statements/representations, conspiracy, and obtaining an object of value with intent to defraud.

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  • Grand jury indicts four on charge of shooting into house

    By CLAY MCFERRIN - The Sun-Sentinel
    Thu,07/21/22-2:06PM, 7,693 Reads

    A Tallahatchie County grand jury for the 1st Judicial District last month indicted four local males on a charge of shooting into a dwelling, according to records on file Tuesday at the circuit clerk’s office in Charleston.

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  • The Neshoba County Fair, Part I

    By LISA IRELAND - Lisa Ireland lives in Jackson.
    Sat,07/23/22-9:28AM, 6,767 Reads 39,214 Statewide

    What in the world would entice thousands of seemly normal people to leave their normal lives for a few weeks, pack up their belongings and take family vacations in the middle of a 100+-year-old campsite in Philadelphia, Mississippi? Traditionally, temperatures hover in the high 90s and humidity tends to be about the same level.

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  • Slaughter-Harvey named University of Mississippi Law Alumna of the Year

    Wed,07/27/22-12:46PM, 4,848 Reads 34,931 Statewide

    She is the first African American female to receive the award

    University of Mississippi School of Law alumna Constance Slaughter-Harvey received the Law Alumna of the Year Award July 15, becoming the first African American female to receive the award.

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  • During the March 2 noon luncheon meeting of the Charleston Rotary Club, Shelbie Grace Phelps, center, was introduced as the new Mississippi State University Extension county agent in Tallahatchie County. Shelbie’s official title is Extension agent 1, as she specializes in 4-H activities. Phelps is pictured with Rotary club president Ken Watson, left, and her uncle, Tallahatchie County Farm Service Agency Executive Director David Groner, who introduced her.  (Photo by John Ball Burnett)

    Phelps named new Extension agent for Tallahatchie

    By CLAY MCFERRIN
    Thu,03/10/22-3:08PM, 631,543 Reads

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  • Brenda Turner, center in blue, is pictured at the Aug. 3, 2019, ribbon-cutting of Whitten's Country Store. The Cascilla business operated in the same historic building where Whitten General Merchandise was established in 1884. Pictured, from left, are Tallahatchie County Sheriff Jimmy Fly, Matthew Wall, owners Sloan and Brenda Turner, Madison Wall, William Goza and Jason McKinney. In back is Clinton Smith. (Sun-Sentinel file photo by Clay McFerrin)

    Tribute to Brenda Turner, Tallahatchie icon killed in Grenada County crash

    By REGGIE ROSS - The Grenada Star
    Thu,11/04/21-2:37PM, 135,440 Reads

    The Cascilla community is mourning the loss of one of their own, leaving the small Tallahatchie County village remembering her leading up to one of their biggest weekends of the year.

    Brenda Turner died from her injuries after being involved in a one-car accident in north Grenada County last week.

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  • Becky and Ed Meek hold the George McLean Philanthropy Award given to them Thursday, Nov. 4, in Tupelo. (Photo by CREATE Foundation)

    Ed and Becky Meek recognized for benevolence

    By CLAY MCFERRIN
    Fri,11/05/21-5:39PM, 120,333 Reads

    TUPELO — The generosity and public-spiritedness of Tallahatchie County natives Ed and Becky Meek were highlighted Thursday, Nov. 4, during the CREATE Foundation's annual meeting at the BancorpSouth Conference Center.

    The couple, who live in Oxford, were 2021 recipients of the foundation's prestigious McLean Award for Philanthropy.

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    Charleston man charged with murder in death of Marks teen

    By CLAY MCFERRIN - The Sun-Sentinel
    Sat,03/12/22-9:19PM, 101,273 Reads 132,948 Statewide

    Charleston police have announced an arrest in the recent shooting death of a Quitman County teenager, an incident that was deemed a "random act."

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  • During the March 2 noon luncheon meeting of the Charleston Rotary Club, Shelbie Grace Phelps, center, was introduced as the new Mississippi State University Extension county agent in Tallahatchie County. Shelbie’s official title is Extension agent 1, as she specializes in 4-H activities. Phelps is pictured with Rotary club president Ken Watson, left, and her uncle, Tallahatchie County Farm Service Agency Executive Director David Groner, who introduced her.  (Photo by John Ball Burnett)

    Phelps named new Extension agent for Tallahatchie

    By CLAY MCFERRIN
    Thu,03/10/22-3:08PM, 631,544 Reads

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  • Wyatt Emmerich, CEO Emmerich Newspapers

    Welcome to the Brave New World; The devastating effects of Section 230 on America

    By WYATT EMMERICH
    Thu,09/17/20-3:00PM, 452,667 Reads

    Kudos to Mississippi U. S. Senator Roger Wicker for sponsoring a bill to amend Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1996.

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  • Officials identify nine nabbed in local roundup of drug suspects, say more arrests are possible

    By CLAY MCFERRIN
    Fri,07/17/20-4:44PM, 282,296 Reads

    Nine people were arrested this week on a variety of drug-related charges in connection with an ongoing investigation by state and local law enforcement agencies.

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  • Local inmate's escape short-lived thanks to officers working together

    By SPECIAL TO THE SUN-SENTINEL
    Tue,09/08/20-5:44PM, 259,755 Reads

    JACKSON – County, state and federal officers worked together during the holiday weekend to capture state inmate Richard Willis after he escaped the Union County Jail in New Albany late Friday night.

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