Mississippi Health Department taps new medical marijuana program leadership

An investigation is underway into a potential compromise of a shared electronic system among the Hinds County Sheriff’s Department, courts and prosecutors that may have prevented individuals from making bail and returning to their families and jobs. Sheriff Tyree Jones said two systems connected to the court and the district attorney’s office went down between Jan. 1 and Wednesday evening. Problems were discovered after a power outage when information technology staff noticed t

Mississippi’s fledgling Medical Cannabis Program will have a new director starting next week, according to a state Health Department letter obtained by Mississippi Today. The letter states that the marijuana office’s current attorney, Laura Goodson, will take over as department’s “acting director” starting Tuesday. The cannabis program’s current director, Kris Jones Adcock, has taken on a new department-wide role.“Ms. Adcock was promoted &ndas

The following statement was released by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of Mississippi: A Conehatta man was sentenced to 78 months in prison for voluntary manslaughter involving the stabbing of another man in the Conehatta Community of the Choctaw Indian Reservation, announced U.S. Attorney […]
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Leah Beasley knows the inner workings of the athletic departments at the University of Oklahoma and Mississippi State. She has worked closely with Zac Selmon, the newly named athletic director at State, for the last eight months at Oklahoma.Leah Beasley, now at University of Oklahoma Credit: Mississippi State Athletics
Beasley says Mississippi State has hit a grand slam in the hiring of Selmon, who, at age 37, becomes Mississippi State’s first Black athletic director and the first at any o

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State University President Mark E. Keenum today [Jan. 13] announced Zac Selmon — the scion of a legendary college football family and a rising star in athletics administration — as MSU’s new Director of Athletics. The appointment follows a national search. “In seeking […]
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Read in English: Democrat Brandon Presley is running for governorBrandon Presley, un demócrata que ha pasado los últimos 15 años regulando las empresas de servicios públicos en la Comisión de Servicios Públicos del estado, anunciará hoy que se postula para gobernador en 2023.Presley se encuentra entre los demócratas más notables que se postularon para el cargo más alto del estado este siglo, y se espera que su candidatura ins

Long Creek Elementary school has announced honor roll students. * * * Superintendent’s Honor List * * * First Grade: Emily Brown, Ky’rie Miller, Kurt Mitchell III, Ja’Kylah Nappier, Aubree Scott, Kaleb Smith, Fredrick Unger, Princetyn Walden Second Grade: Mariyah Wash Fourth Grade: Hailey Ellis, Triniti […]
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A fast-moving storm system produced wind damage, hail and at least one tornado across Mississippi Thursday.  In Leake County, trees were blown down on Robinson Road near Ofahoma and along Highway 488 near Standing Pine.  There were numerous hail reports across Neshoba County.  A tree […]
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Officials at the Elvis Presley Birthplace in Tupelo say they’re extending their “deepest sympathy” to the Presley family after the death of Elvis’ only child, Lisa Marie.  Less than a week after attending a birthday celebration for her father in Memphis, she suffered cardiac arrest […]
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Thursday, January 12, 2023 7:52 a.m. – Kosciusko Police were called to Choctaw Ct for a dispute between neighbors. 8:07 a.m. – Kosciusko Police were alerted to a one-vehicle accident that happened on Knox Rd near Landrum St.  No one was injured. 10:11 a.m. – […]
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