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Members of the 2023 Charleston High School homecoming court are pictured. From left, they are junior maid Breanna Turner, senior maid Shaniya Moore, junior maid Shamiya Autman, senior maid Jasmine Hill, sophomore maid Jada Leavy, sophomore maid Tambria Price, senior maid Takiyah Wilson, freshman maid Armani Smith, senior maid Janiya Taylor and freshman maid Alilliana Kuykendall. The homecoming court will be presented during halftime ceremonies of the CHS football game on Friday, Oct. 6. In that contest, the Tigers will play host to the Riverside Bulldogs in the opener of Region 3-2A football action for Charleston. (Photo by Mandy Moore)

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Charleston High School reveals homecoming court

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Senate committee approves Mississippi’s first welfare check increase since 1999

By BOBBY HARRISON - MISSISSIPPI TODAY BOBBY HARRISON - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Thu,01/28/21-10:47AM, 7,190 Reads 42,768 Statewide
The monthly benefit for a family receiving welfare benefits through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program would be increased from $170 per month to $260 for a family of three if legislation approved Wednesday by the Mississippi Senate Public Health Committee becomes law.
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'Y'all better be ready to die!'

By CLAY MCFERRIN CLAY MCFERRIN - Editor and Publisher, Charleston Sun-Sentinel
Thu,03/02/23-6:49PM, 7,185 Reads 14,255 Statewide
WEBB — Officials pledge to prosecute, to the fullest extent of the law, whoever is responsible for a bomb threat emailed Wednesday morning to a teacher at West Tallahatchie High School.
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Former Express Grain owner sentenced to 10 years for fraud

By SUSAN BRADLEY SUSAN BRADLEY - Public Affairs Officer, U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Mississippi
Thu,01/30/25-3:40PM, 7,178 Reads
OXFORD – A Greenwood man was sentenced today to 10 years in prison and ordered to pay more than $69 million in restitution for committing millions of dollars in fraud in connection with operation of a grain elevator in the Mississippi Delta.
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