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Jackson, Mississippi — Filmmaker, visual artist, and cultural storyteller Talamieka Brice has reached a significant career milestone with the upcoming public television broadcast of her documentary short Our Rebellious Hearts, airing March 14 at 8:20 PM on Mississippi Public Broadcasting, part of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) network.
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3 weeks 2 days ago
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Pictured from left: Carroll County GOP Executive Committee Secretary Charles Humphreys, Carroll County Circuit Clerk Durward Stanton, Carroll County Democratic Chairman Pam Gary, Democratic Executive Committee Member Mary Fluker, and Carroll County GOP Executive Committee Member Hart Miller. Not pictured Carroll County Democratic Executive Committee Member Mary King.
Carroll County Republican and Democratic Party officials met Wednesday morning at the Carroll County Courthouse in Vaiden to certify the Tuesday primary election.
“We finished verifying the affidavit ballots and certified the totals of both the United States Senate and Second Congressional District primary races. The ballot will now be set for the November 3 General Election.” said North Carrollton Mayor Ken Strachan who is the Carroll County Republican Executive Committee Chairman.
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3 weeks 2 days ago
STATE FAIRGROUNDS, Miss. – This year, 1,152 4-H and FFA members from across Mississippi participated in the Dixie National Junior Round-Up Livestock Shows, exhibiting 1,759 head of livestock. These students competed for the opportunity to participate in the 57th annual Sale of Junior Champions. The Sale of Junior Champions, one of the highlight events of the Dixie National Livestock Show and Rodeo, is an auction where livestock exhibitors winning Champion and Reserve Champion in the Junior Round Up Market Divisions sell their prizewinning animals and where scholarships are awarded.
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3 weeks 2 days ago
The following arrests were reported by local law enforcement agencies last week. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
Kevin Ervin of Itta Bena was arrested on Mar. 8 by the WPD on the charges of sale of a controlled substance, felony and enhancement of penalty for violation of uniform controlled substance act; with a bail set in the amount of $50,000.
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Pictured from left: Major Brian L. Hughes, commander of the 172d Aircraft Maintenance Squadron and Senior Master Sgt. Jonathan Wade Neill.
Major Brian L. Hughes, commander of the 172d Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, left, presents Senior Master Sgt. Jonathan Wade Neill of Carrollton with his retirement certificate during a ceremony on March 6, in the Heritage Room at Thompson Field. Neill officially retired Dec. 31, 2025, from the Mississippi Air National Guard and the United States Air Force and was promoted from master sergeant to senior master sergeant during the ceremony. Neill joined the Air Force in 1988.
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The Southern Miss Golden Eagles swept Louisiana Tech over the weekend to improve to 10-1 on the season. The Sunday win over Tech gave Golden Eagles head coach Christian Ostrander his 100th win at USM. Coach Oz reached 100 wins in only 137 games, which is the fastest in school history. USM will host Mississippi State on Tuesday and Nicholls State on Wednesday before North Alabama visits Friday-Sunday.
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3 weeks 2 days ago
As a long time Mississippian and a business owner who’s seen firsthand how a strong community lifts us all, I know one truth: investing in our youngest kids is investing in our shared future. Mississippi’s economy doesn’t just grow on its own—it thrives when we build up both today’s workforce and tomorrow’s.
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3 weeks 3 days ago
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Molly Tompkins, daughter of Joey and Betsy Tompkins of Winona and a 2023 graduate of Winona High School, was recently crowned Most Beautiful 2026 at the University of Mississippi.
Tompkins is a junior majoring in integrated marketing communications with a minor in sport administration. She is a member of Kappa Delta sorority, the Ole Miss Baseball Diamond Girls, Order of Omega and Phi Eta Sigma. She also serves as an Ole Miss Social Media Ambassador and a Luckyday Scholar.
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2026 Holmes Community College Goodman Campus Hall of Fame inductees are (front row, left to right) Diana Garcia , Jayden Neal, Makayla Kast, Lennie Kate Wood, (back row, left to right) Maeson Jolley and Lawson Nichols.
GOODMAN — Holmes Community College recently recognized outstanding student leaders from the Goodman Campus with induction into the 2026 Holmes Hall of Fame, the college’s highest student honor.
Students selected for this distinction demonstrated academic excellence, leadership, service and commitment to the Holmes community. For the Goodman Campus, honorees include Diana Garcia of Kosciusko, Maeson Jolley of Sallis, Makayla Kast of Kosciusko, Jayden Neal of Pearl, Lawson Nichols of Benton and Lennie Kate Wood of Winona.
Lennie Kate Wood
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3 weeks 3 days ago
An excellent medical column in The Washington Post predicts the next target in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vaccine campaign. At the same time, the column debunks the claim that this target is hazardous to children’s health.
Dr. Leana S. Wen, an emergency physician and clinical associate professor at George Washington University, believes Kennedy, the Health and Human Services secretary, may seek the removal of “aluminum salts” from vaccines. He believes this ingredient can cause conditions from autism to asthma to food allergies.
By Jack Ryan, Enterprise-Journal on
3 weeks 3 days ago
Concerns about politically motivated debanking deserve serious attention. We must ensure Americans have fair access to financial services – access that cannot be denied due to political pressure or vague regulatory standards. But Mississippi’s HB 1597 is not the right path forward.
This problem starts and ends in Washington. Expansive, vague, and outdated federal oversight rules, paired with aggressive enforcement tactics, have created an environment where federal regulators can pressure banks to close accounts for certain people and industries.
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3 weeks 3 days ago
As President Donald Trump has acknowledged, America’s war on Iran will not be as easy or quick as the previous military incursion he authorized, the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
The goals for the South American operation were much simpler: Take out the incompetent and criminal Maduro and put in his place a regime of his lieutenants who are more inclined to take orders from Washington.
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3 weeks 4 days ago
Democrats in both the Mississippi House and Senate have opposed the measure, calling it a bad bill that could create more trouble for voters than it solves.
As President Donald Trump (R) is pushing congressional Republicans to pass the SAVE Act that would require voters to provide proof of citizenship at the time of registration and a photo ID when casting a ballot, state lawmakers in Mississippi are taking steps to pass the SHIELD Act to verify citizenship of voters on state rolls. Mississippi already requires voter ID.
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3 weeks 5 days ago
Robert St. John says hospitality is hospitality, whether the table is set in Hattiesburg or on a fjord in northern Norway.
A restaurateur has no business leading tours through the frozen tundra of Scandinavia. Then again, a restaurateur has no business leading tours through Tuscany, either, and that was over 70 trips and 1,500 people ago.
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3 weeks 5 days ago
Below is a political opinion column by Russ Latino:
Sarah Adlakha is a political newcomer challenging a Trump-endorsed incumbent, Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, in Tuesday’s Republican Primary. Can she pull off the improbable? Unlikely, but her campaign could impact November.
Sarah Adlakha, an Illinois native, moved to Mississippi thirteen years ago. She registered to vote here for the first time in 2024, before the general election. Now she’s attempting to unseat incumbent U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith in Tuesday’s March 10th Republican Primary.
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3 weeks 5 days ago
Republicans and Democrats head to the polls Tuesday to choose their party’s nominee ahead of the November General Election. See who is on the ballot for the midterm Primary Elections.
Polls open at 7 a.m. on Tuesday, March 10 across Mississippi as voters choose their nominees in the Republican and Democratic Midterm Primary Elections for U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives.
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4 weeks ago
Greenwood Leflore Hospital signed a letter of intent to discuss the possibility of the University of Mississippi Medical Center taking over its services, according to state and local officials and an excerpted document obtained by Mississippi Today.
The public hospital in Greenwood has faced financial struggles for years and warned as recently as December that it was on the brink of closure because of debt owed to the Mississippi Division of Medicaid.
By Gwen Dilworth - Mississippi Today on
4 weeks ago
Below is a political opinion column by David Ibsen:
David Ibsen says HB 1597 is unnecessary and would add additional confusion and regulation that could harm Mississippi consumers and smaller community banks.
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4 weeks ago
Robert St. John highlights his podcast, Ya Gotta Eat, with co-host and production partner, Drew Wooton. The two sit down with interesting people to dive deep into their lives and careers.
My ADHD is so bad that I just forgot what I was going to write in this opening sentence.
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4 weeks ago
Cate Hargett, an 11-year-old in Greenwood, needs a bone marrow transplant as the search for her perfect donor match continues.
Cate, who dreams of becoming a librarian or author, was diagnosed with a rare blood disorder when she was 2 months old.
The Pillow Academy fifth grader has continued to fight bone marrow failure, which occurs when the tissue inside bones cannot produce enough healthy blood cells on its own.
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