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Text to help win $1,000 for Charleston High School

By CLAY MCFERRIN CLAY MCFERRIN - The Sun-Sentinel
Mon,11/28/22-3:42PM, 474 Reads
Fans of Charleston High School have a chance to participate in the "text to win" contest in conjunction with the Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Mississippi Gridiron Classic/MHSAA State Football Championship.
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"Tuesday afternoon and evening has the potential to become a significant severe weather event across the Mid-South. Damaging winds and long-track tornadoes will be possible with highly organized storms. ... The greatest severe weather risk will be in the late afternoon through midnight time frame." — National Weather Service graphic and information)

Severe weather possible Tuesday, into early Wednesday

By CLAY MCFERRIN CLAY MCFERRIN - The Sun-Sentinel
Mon,11/28/22-5:10PM, 326 Reads
The National Weather Service in Memphis has announced that there is an enhanced risk for potentially severe weather, including some strong tornadoes, over portions of the Mid-South Tuesday into early Wednesday.
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Paying Kiffin above his station

Mon,11/28/22-9:38PM, 239 Reads 6,719 Statewide
Rick Cleveland, the dean of Mississippi sports writers who now practices his trade writing for Mississippi Today, asked the right question the day after Lane Kiffin’s Ole Miss football team lost to in-state rival Mississippi State.
Is Kiffin worth $9 million a year?
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Incoming State Superintendent Robert Taylor shares priorities as new leader of public schools

By JULIA JAMES - MISSISSIPPI TODAY JULIA JAMES - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Mon,11/28/22-4:00PM, 94 Reads 1,739 Statewide
Newly named state superintendent of education Robert Taylor made his first public comments on Monday since being named to the post.
Taylor, a native of Laurel who has worked in North Carolina public education for the last 30 years, said being state superintendent of Mississippi has been his lifelong dream.
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Quardero M. Gipson, above, was found guilty Thursday of first-degree murder in the July 2020 shooting death of Adrian Wilchie. (Photo special to The Sun-Sentinel)

Sumner jury finds man guilty in 2020 murder

By CLAY MCFERRIN CLAY MCFERRIN - The Sun-Sentinel
Fri,11/04/22-12:53PM, 15,421 Reads 15,627 Statewide
SUMNER — Quardero M. Gipson was found guilty Thursday evening (Nov. 3) of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit armed robbery in the July 2020 slaying of Adrian Wilchie.
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UMMC pulls out of lease talks with Greenwood hospital

By TIM KALICH TIM KALICH - Greenwood Commonwealth
Fri,11/04/22-1:00PM, 6,779 Reads 62,470 Statewide
The effort to lease Greenwood Leflore Hospital to University of Mississippi Medical Center is dead.
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Kevin Hodges

Mon,11/21/22-3:50PM, 6,243 Reads
CHARLESTON — On Sunday, Nov. 20, Robert Kevin Hodges, of Charleston passed away at the age of 52. He had been a patient at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Oxford for an extended period of time.
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Members of the East Tallahatchie High School Class of 1960 gathered for their 62nd class reunion on Friday, Oct. 21, at the Denman Hunting Club lodge near Charleston. The group enjoyed reminiscing, catching up and sharing a specially prepared meal. Seated in front is Sarah Hickey Williams. Standing, from left, are Ronnie Williams, James West, Dr. Stuart Denman, Judy Coker Denman, Virginia Hodges Murphree, Dr. Eddie Sheffield, Jones Ellett Sandifer, Dorothy Roberson Ellard, Savana Estridge McGee, Brenda Cole Myers, Barbara Haven Baker, Helen Wolfe Meek and Tommy Crenshaw. (Photo special to The Sun-Sentinel)

ETHS Class of 1960 holds reunion

Thu,11/03/22-10:01AM, 6,175 Reads

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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 CLAY MCFERRIN
Thu,03/10/22-3:08PM, 710,549 Reads

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Charleston man charged with murder in death of Marks teen

By CLAY MCFERRIN CLAY MCFERRIN - The Sun-Sentinel
Sat,03/12/22-9:19PM, 150,256 Reads 183,168 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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Keith Martin

Man accused of stabbing wife more than 20 times

By CLAY MCFERRIN CLAY MCFERRIN
Thu,01/27/22-4:32PM, 73,606 Reads
A former Tutwiler resident is accused of stabbing his wife more than 20 times and driving a car over his sister-in-law during a roadside domestic altercation in the early-morning hours of Jan. 19.
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This photo of 27-year-old Ashley McDonald, missing since Thanksgiving Day, was circulated on a flyer by the Memphis Police Department. McDonald's car was found abandoned in a rural section of Tallahatchie County.

Missing persons case leads Memphis PD to Tallahatchie County

By CLAY MCFERRIN CLAY MCFERRIN
Thu,02/10/22-11:44AM, 59,683 Reads 65,665 Statewide
Two investigators and a crime scene technician from the Memphis Police Department were in Tallahatchie County recently, seeking leads in the case of a woman missing since Thanksgiving.
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