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Males ages 12-24 invited to participate in six-week program at Wellness Center

Men United Inc., a startup nonprofit group dedicated to improving the lives of underprivileged male youth and young male adults . . .

A car drives slowly along a flooded section of George Payne Cossar Boulevard in Charleston Tuesday. (Photo by Clay McFerrin)

Photos: Floodwaters devastate Tallahatchie

Depending on the rain gauge of choice, anywhere from 5-10 inches of the wet stuff fell from Monday night into . . .

Juneteenth festival set June 18-20 in Charleston

The inaugural Juneteenth festival will be held June 18-20 in Charleston. Juneteenth is a national observance honoring the date, June . . .

Pictured is the East Tallahatchie School District central office, where four finalists for the superintendent's position are to be interviewed Monday. (File photo by Clay McFerrin)

Four school superintendent finalists to be interviewed Monday

The search for a new superintendent of the East Tallahatchie School District is down to the nitty-gritty, with four finalists . . .

As MS Legislature debates medical marijuana, is recreational marijuana now on the table?

After recent hearing, state Sen. Brice Wiggins says yes. State Senator Brice Wiggins (R) joined Y’all Politics on Wednesday morning . . .

Governor Reeves “adamantly opposed” to Critical Race Theory being taught in MS schools
By Frank Corder - Y'all Politics, 935 Reads
Fri, 06/11/2021 - 04:12 PM
Lawmakers could address CRT in 2022 session.

Governor Tate Reeves says he is adamantly opposed to critical race theory “sneaking into our curriculums in the state of Mississippi,” and he is prepared to sign legislation to prevent it, should that become necessary.
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Reverse auctions secretly killed by special interests
By Wyatt Emmerich, 1,302 Reads
Fri, 06/11/2021 - 04:09 PM
It didn’t take long for the powers that be to kill reverse auctions — about two years or so.
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As MS Legislature debates medical marijuana, is recreational marijuana now on the table?
By Frank Corder - Y'all Politics, 989 Reads
Fri, 06/11/2021 - 04:17 PM
After recent hearing, state Sen. Brice Wiggins says yes.
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COVID-19 grant program promised to prioritize minority businesses. Did it?
By Geoff Pender - Mississippi Today, 3,495 Reads
Fri, 06/11/2021 - 04:51 PM
An emergency grant program for small businesses during the worst of the pandemic last year was supposed to give priority to minority and women-owned businesses in Mississippi in giving out grants up to $25,000 each from federal COVID-19 relief passed by Congress.
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Is that all there is to a pandemic?
By Kelley Williams, 5,686 Reads
Sat, 06/12/2021 - 03:31 PM
The bubonic plague killed about half the people in Europe in the Middle Ages. It was called the Black Death. Influenza killed about 15% of the world’s population in 1918-19. It was called the Spanish Flu. (John Barry’s The Great Influenza suggests it first appeared in Kansas.) Justinian’s Plague was the first major plague in recorded histor
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Mississippi $1 billion over revenue estimates
By Sarah Ulmer, Y'all Politics, 810 Reads
Fri, 06/11/2021 - 04:05 PM
Mississippi revenue report totals $1,004.5 million, or $1 billion over sine die estimates year-to-date.

The May revenue report was released on Wednesday and reported an overage of over $1 billion for the entire year up until this point, and over $200 million just for the month of May.
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Appetizers for gatherings
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Fri, 06/11/2021 - 02:58 PM
With summer here, I always get excited about the gatherings that come with the season. I look forward to gathering with my family and friends for fellowship and good food. I thought I’d share some of my favorite appetizers for any summer gathering, some shared to me by my closest friends.
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Former State Representative Ashley Henley reported dead
By Frank Corder - Y'all Politics, 2,619 Reads
Mon, 06/14/2021 - 05:41 PM
MONDAY MORNING, NEWS ON SOCIAL MEDIA BEGAN CIRCULATING THAT FORMER REPRESENTATIVE HENLEY HAD DIED.
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Former state Rep. Ashley Henley

Former Rep. Ashley Henley killed outside home where sister-in-law was previously found dead
By Geoff Pender - Mississippi Today, 1,422 Reads
Mon, 06/14/2021 - 01:49 PM
Former state Rep. Ashley Henley of DeSoto County was killed while mowing the grass outside the home where her sister-in-law’s body had been found last year, the Yalobusha County Sheriff’s Department said.
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