Federal lawsuit alleges Lexington Police Department ‘terrorizes’ Black citizens

The City of Kosciusko is working on a medical marijuana ordinance. Attorney Jason White presented the proposed ordinance Tuesday night to the Kosciusko Board of Aldermen. The Mississippi Medical Cannabis Act passed earlier this year by the Mississippi legislature sets most of the regulations for […]
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A tree fell across Hwy 35 south Saturday afternoon. It happened near the Dollar General in Williamsville and blocked both lanes of traffic. No injuries were reported.
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Mississippi Book Festival | Us | lufkindailynews.com  Lufkin Daily News

Mississippi Today has compiled data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to answer frequently asked questions about monkeypox and its presence in Mississippi.Click to jump to a specific questionWhat is monkeypox?Has monkeypox spread to Mississippi?How does the virus spread?What do monkeypox symptoms look like?How can I protect myself and others?What should I do if I believe I have contracted monkeypox?What is monkeypox?According to the CDC, monkeypox is a rare disease caused by i

US Attorney targets widespread CARES act fraud in north Mississippi  Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal

Boswell Media Sports’ weekly football pick’em “Kicks Picks” is back for its 19th season on Breezynews.com and Kicks96news.com. Make your picks each week for the best high school and college football games in the state. If you get the most right, then you’re a winner. […]
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Friday, August 19, 2022 7:30 a.m. – Kosciusko Police received a call reporting that there was a red van chasing a green ford ranger in the area of East South St., South Natchez St., & West Jefferson St. 7:35 a.m. – Kosciusko Police were alerted […]
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An abortion pill manufacturer voluntarily dismissed its lawsuit challenging Mississippi’s restrictions on medication abortion on Thursday, but the legal question it raised is unlikely to disappear. GenBioPro, the manufacturer of generic mifepristone – the drug used along with misoprostol to end pregnancies up to 10 weeks of gestation – argued in its 2020 complaint that Mississippi’s restrictions on abortion medication were unconstitutional because they were much str

A federal appeals judge upheld the ruling that a Cleveland Central High School student did not have her civil rights violated in the process of awarding graduation honors. Olecia James, a 2018 graduate of Cleveland Central, had her GPA recalculated weeks before graduation which resulted in her being ranked third and losing her position as salutatorian. James alleged in the original lawsuit that the change was racially motivated to allow a white male to receive the honor instead due to fear

Mississippi State University put faculty on post-tenure review at the highest rate during the 2021-22 school year, according to data released at a meeting of the Institutions of Higher Learning Board of Trustees. Post-tenure review is a kind of periodic evaluation that “goes beyond” typical evaluations by creating a pathway for a university to revoke a faculty member’s tenured status, according to the American Association of University Professors.Out of 499 tenured facult

Regions Bank is warning customers of a potential scam. According to an email sent to customers, scammers have been sending text messages and phone calls posing as Regions bankers in an effort to gain access to their accounts. An excerpt from the email reads: “Telltale […]
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Through funding from the Great American Outdoors Act’s (GAOA) Legacy Restoration Fund and Federal Highway Administration’s National Significant Federal Lands and Tribal Projects (NSFLTP) Program, the National Park Service (NPS) will receive approximately $130.6 million to rehabilitate 83 miles of Natchez Trace Parkway in Mississippi. An initial investment of approximately […]
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Hinds and Harrison counties can apply for a portion of the more than $100 million in emergency rental assistance funds that Gov. Tate Reeves is returning to the U.S. Treasury.According to June 28 guidelines from the U.S. Treasury, “When feasible and consistent with jurisdiction needs, Treasury intends to reallocate excess funds from a grantee to another grantee in the same state. When appropriate, after such an intrastate allocation, a grantee’s excess funds will be reallocated in o

For the second year in a row, the Kosciusko School District won the Community Sports Challenge. The team took home the title during Thursday night’s Dodgeball Tournament at the Attala County Coliseum. The championship round had the KSD team squaring off against the undefeated team […]
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Central Mississippi Rotary Club is offering a signed and numbered 15×20.5′ print titled “Blues My Way” by artist Danny Brunt.  Proceeds from your donations will fund community and school projects.  Prints are $30 and will be ship directly to you.  To order your print contact […]
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Boswell Media Sports’ weekly football pick’em “Kicks Picks” is back for its 19th season on Breezynews.com and Kicks96news.com. Make your picks each week for the best high school and college football games in the state. If you get the most right, then you’re a winner. […]
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Eddie Glaude, Jr., is a Mississippi native, renowned author, political commentator and educator. Glaude was in Jackson as the speaker for the Medgar Wiley Evers Lecture Series held at the Two Mississippi Museums, Thursday, Apr. 28, 2022. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today
Mississippi native Eddie Glaude, one of the world’s leading thinkers and teachers on race, keeps bearing witness about America’s ugly, unacknowledged history and how it will shape our future.For years, Glaude

Abortion drug maker drops challenge to Mississippi ban  Colorado Springs Gazette

School has just started but the state test scores are in– for last year.  And across Mississippi, the numbers are up for all subjects. The highest test scores among the local school districts were in Neshoba County, where 79 per cent of the students tested […]
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Thursday, August 18, 2022 5:03 a.m. – Attala County Deputies responded to a call reporting a tree down blocking one lane of traffic on HWY 43 North near Shady Grove Road. 5:13 a.m. – Attala County Fire Department, Attala County Deputies, and Emergency Medical Services […]
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Greenwood Leflore Hospital will delay resuming inpatient operations even after clean-up efforts related to a sewage leak have been completed, hospital officials announced Thursday.Officials cited the hospital’s precarious financial position as the cause of the shutdown. “The hospital continues to be on diversion and is temporarily delaying the re-opening of inpatient services,” the press release stated. “Further analysis is required to determine with labor shortages

Kosciusko will now go on the road to open the 2022 season. According to Athletic Director Macy Wilbanks, the first game against Yazoo County will now be played at Yazoo County instead of Kosciusko. Game time will still be 7:30 pm. Here is the school’s […]
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The Kosciusko Police Department warns all business to not accept any checks from Civista Bank of Pasadena, CA. If you are presented with one of these checks please contact KPD at 662-289-3131
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The Mississippi State Personnel Board gave the state’s welfare department the green light Thursday to hire new legal counsel for its high-profile civil lawsuit to recoup millions in misspent welfare funds.Jackson-based law firm Jones Walker will replace former U.S. Attorney Brad Pigott, the contract attorney who initially crafted the lawsuit, after the Gov. Tate Reeves administration abruptly removed Pigott from the case last month. The new one-year contract is for up to $400,000, with pa

Students in Mississippi approached pre-pandemic levels of achievement on state tests this spring, showing significant growth from the previous year. The results from the 2022 administration of the state tests, or Mississippi Academic Assessment Program (MAAP), show that 2-4% fewer students passed English, science, and math exams this year than in 2019. Last year in 2021, the first time that state tests were administered following the pandemic, around 10% fewer students passed their te

Civil rights advocates say in a federal lawsuit that police have “terrorized” residents in a small Mississippi town by subjecting them to false arrests, excessive force and intimidation. The civil rights organization JULIAN is seeking a temporary restraining order against Lexington’s police department to “demand […]
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U.S. Attorney uncovers Rental Assistance fraud scheme as program ends in Mississippi  YallPolitics

Brittney Reese, former Olympic gold medalist and now tickled to be the girls track coach at Gulfport High School. (Photo: Vickie King) Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi TodayGULFPORT — Yes, track and field superstar Brittney Reese says, there are times these days when she walks the hallways of Gulfport High School, she feels a powerful sense of deja vu.“It wasn’t that long ago, you know, I was one of these kids trying to figure it out,” Reese says.Actually, it was 18 ye

HENRY R PEREZ, 35, of Morton, DUI – 1st, No Driver’s License, No Insurance, LCSO.  Bond $1,000, $1,000, $1,000.   HUNTER L RAY, 25, of Kosciusko, Grand Larceny, Possession of Stolen Firearm, Possession of Firearm by Convicted Felon, ACSO.  Bond $10,000, $5,000, $5,000.   PERCY […]
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On Wednesday at 5:19pm, a caller requested assistance at their residence on Attala Road 2101 where there were five or six horses in her yard. At 6:12pm, Kosciusko City Fire was called out to the Kangaroo Crossing – Veteran’s Memorial Drive parking lot for an […]
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