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W. L. Hightower, pastor of New Zion Baptish Church in Louisville, receives the Moderna vaccine, administered by Mississippi State Department of Health Phamacist Kathryn Ward at New Hope Baptist Church in Jackson. Hightower was among a number of African American faith leaders from across the state to receive the COVID-19 vaccination Monday at New Hope Baptist Church in Jackson. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Tower

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Delta variant now dominant COVID-19 strain in Mississippi

By WILL STRIBLING - MISSISSIPPI TODAY WILL STRIBLING - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Thu,07/08/21-5:04PM, 6,868 Reads 99,580 Statewide
As public health experts have warned for weeks, the Delta variant of COVID-19 is now the dominant strain circulating in Mississippi, causing a spike in cases and hospitalizations.
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John Cohen has stepped down as athletics director and is reportedly taking the athletic director's position at Auburn. | Appeal File Photo

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John Cohen steps down as athletics director

By STAFF REPORTS STAFF REPORTS
Mon,10/31/22-11:46AM, 6,860 Reads 59,667 Statewide
STARKVILLE — Mississippi State University President Mark E. Keenum is beginning a national search for a new Athletics Director at MSU after receiving notification from AD John Cohen that he is departing MSU effective immediately.
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Johnson, Buckley recite wedding vows

Thu,10/06/22-9:47AM, 6,841 Reads
Miss Griffin Johnson and Mr. Harrison Buckley were united in marriage Friday, Sept. 16.
The couple exchanged wedding vows at 3 o’clock in the afternoon before family and friends in the Chapel of Flowers Glass Gardens in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The bride is the daughter of the late Claude Isaac Brown and the late Barbara Johnson.
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Jerry "Bubba" Williams II, right, is following in the footsteps of his late father, Jerry Wayne Williams, left, as police chief of the city of Charleston. (Photos special to The Sun-Sentinel)

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City settles on Chief Williams

By CLAY MCFERRIN CLAY MCFERRIN
Thu,06/03/21-8:35PM, 6,841 Reads
The Charleston Board of Commissioners voted May 4 to name interim Police Chief Jerry “Bubba” Williams II the chief of the Charleston Police Department.
Williams, 43, was appointed interim chief at a Jan. 19 meeting of the city board. He had applied for the position after former chief Justin Gammage left in 2020.
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