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2 months 3 weeks ago
Employees of the Leflore County Juvenile Detention Center walked off the job Friday after not receiving any pay since Nov. 7, shutting down the facility.
In an email sent Friday morning to Leflore County Sheriff James Payne and Leflore County Administrator Cynthia Stanciel and shared with the Commonwealth, Leflore County and Youth Court Judge James Littleton said the detention center shut down since no employees of the center were at work to provide security, book juveniles held there or perform drug tests, among other services.
By GERARD EDIC - The Greenwood Commonwealth on
2 months 3 weeks ago
Photo by Chuck Hathcock, © 2026 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.
Kirk Academy senior Parker Avant starts a fast break during a game in early December of 2025 against Marshall Academy. The guard reached the 1,000 career points mark in a win over Oak Hill last Tuesday.
The Kirk Academy basketball teams resumed the second half of their season with three games being played.
Action began last Monday and Tuesday with participation at the Calhoun Academy Holiday Tournament in Calhoun City. The week ended with the resumption of the Class AAA, District 1 schedule with games at Rossville (Tenn.) Christian Academy. last Friday.
By Chuck Hathcock - Sport Editor on
2 months 3 weeks ago
Photo by Adam Prestridge, © 2026 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.
Grenada High School freshman power forward Tyler Edwards drives to the basket earlier this season at home.
Grenada High School will host the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Basketball Tournament this Saturday,
Jan. 10, beginning at 11 a.m. Teams from Clarksdale, Independence, Aberdeen, J.Z. George, Coffeeville and Grenada will compete.
The schedule for the day includes:
• 11 a.m. — Clarksdale vs. Independence (Girls)
• 12:30 p.m. — Clarksdale vs. Independence (Boys)
• 2 p.m. — Aberdeen vs. J.Z. George (Boys)
• 3:30 p.m. — Coffeeville vs. Grenada (Girls)
• 5 p.m. — Coffeeville vs. Grenada (Boys)
Admission will be $8.
By Chuck Hathcock - Sports Editor on
2 months 3 weeks ago
Photo by Star File Photo, © 2026 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.
The Grenada County Board of Supervisors met at the Grenada County Courthouse on Monday morning for the first time in 2026.
The initial Grenada County Board of Supervisors meeting for 2026 was held Monday morning at the Grenada County Courthouse. All five supervisors were present for the meeting.
Board attorney Jay Gore opened the meeting with prayer, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. The first item on the agenda was to approve the minutes of the December meetings.
By Chuck Hathcock - Sports Editor on
2 months 3 weeks ago
Photo by Marsha Engle, © 2026 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.
Flight paramedics load a female patient into Pafford Emergency Medical Service's Air One helicopter following the Dec. 27, 2025, shooting on Rayford Street.
Police are investigating a shooting that left multiple people injured on Saturday, Dec. 27, 2025, in Grenada.
Authorities said officers responded to reports of gunfire in the 800 block of Rayford Street, where three people were reportedly shot. The victims were taken to the University of Mississippi Medical Center-Grenada, where law enforcement officers remained later that afternoon as the investigation continued.
By Adam Prestridge - Publisher on
2 months 3 weeks ago
Photo by Peyton Poe, © 2026 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.
Firefighters with the Duck Hill Volunteer Fire Department work to extinguish hot spots following a New Year’s Eve fire that destroyed a home on Mississippi Highway 404 in Duck Hill. The McKay family of five lost everything in the blaze.
A Montgomery County family counted their blessings as the New Year was ushered in following an early morning fire that destroyed their home New Year’s Eve morning.
The family of five, including three boys — ages 14, 9 and 5 — lost everything as a result of the blaze, which occurred in the 2800 block of Mississippi Highway 404 East in Duck Hill.
Community members in both Montgomery and Grenada counties immediately began rallying together to assist the family with immediate as well as future needs.
By Adam Prestridge - Publisher on
2 months 3 weeks ago
Marqual Antavius Harris
A Tallahatchie County man was flown to a Memphis hospital Monday night (Jan. 5) with injuries sustained in an auto crash after reportedly leading lawmen on a high-speed chase in parts of two counties.
Tallahatchie County Sheriff Jimmy Fly said Marqual Antavius Harris, 36, of 1285 Johnson Dr., Enid, was listed in critical condition Tuesday morning (Jan. 6) at The Med.
Harris was alone in a 2010 Ford F-150 pickup when it crashed at the intersection of Paul-Shady Grove and Tallaha roads at 8:23 p.m. Monday, Fly stated.
By Clay McFerrin on
2 months 3 weeks ago
Coach Roderick Moore’s Grenada High School Chargers closed out their first half of the season on Dec. 22, 2025, with a 54-50 road win over Class 1A McAdams.
With the win, GHS improves to 7-10 overall.
Freshman Tyler Edwards led the Chargers with 15 points on 7-of-9 shooting to go with 5 rebounds and 3 steals. Sophomore Braylon Hardiman added 14 points on 4-of-7 shootting to go with 4 rebounds. Junior Garan Edwards scored 10 points on 4-of-7 shooting. He also chipped in with 4 rebounds and 4 steals.
By Chuck Hathcock - Sports Editor on
2 months 3 weeks ago
Several months ago, I wrote an article regarding the status of waterfowl populations across the country. Not to digress, but in a nutshell, the numbers overall have been in a downward trend for many years. Again, I won’t go into the reasons, but I will reemphasize some points in this article. Since we are in the last few weeks of the 2025-2026 waterfowl season, I thought it would be interesting to poll hunters in various regions across the state to get their thoughts on how the season is going thus far.
By Jeff North on
2 months 3 weeks ago
Among all the Ole Miss football players, coaches and fans reveling in the postseason success of the Rebels, one of the happiest has to be Keith Carter, the school’s athletic director.
The victories over Tulane in the first round and Georgia in the Sugar Bowl have vindicated Carter and his then risky decision to cut ties immediately with Lane Kiffin after Kiffin had decided to take the coaching job at Louisiana State University.
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Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves is no fan of granting clemency to inmates, having gone almost six years in office without doing it once.
He broke that string, to his credit, in December with back-to-back commutations of the sentences of brothers Marcus and Maurice Taylor.
The brothers had been mistakenly sentenced to longer prison terms on drug charges than the statutes allowed. Both received 15-year sentences when the maximum for their crime was five years.
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2 months 3 weeks ago
Mississippi Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann used a speech to the Stennis Press Forum on Monday to declare the state in its strongest fiscal and educational position in memory, while urging lawmakers to build on recent gains with new spending on teachers, infrastructure, cybersecurity and rural services. Below is a summary of the talk produced by Perplexity AI followed by the entire transcript of Hosemann's talk.
Overview of themes
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2 months 3 weeks ago
Below is a religion column by Matt Friedeman:
Matt Friedeman says if you earnestly pray these eight lines from Psalms 119 and pour your heart out to God, you may well have the best year you have ever had.
It’s a new year. Want to pray with greater intensity and personal transformation than ever before?
By Matt Friedeman - Magnolia Tribune on
2 months 3 weeks ago
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In Mississippi
1. Jury selection in Dibiase trial begins Tuesday
Former wrestler Ted DiBiase Jr. will stand trial in Mississippi for his alleged role in the state’s largest public embezzlement scheme using TANF funds.
By Magnolia Tribune Staff on
2 months 4 weeks ago
The 2026 session of the Mississippi Legislature is ready to go, and from the looks of things, the Republican majorities in both chambers must prepare to compromise to get anything high on their wish list accomplished.
A recent story on the Magnolia Tribune website explored education issues ranging from school choice to teacher pay raises; and increased financial assistance for the Public Employees Retirement System to start decreasing its $26 billion unfunded liability.
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2 months 4 weeks ago
Below is an opinion column by Sid Salter:
Columnist Sid Salter writes that you don’t have to be from Mississippi to respect its complexity. You do have to resist the urge to simplify it.
The brutal, disturbing murder of iconic Hollywood actor and filmmaker Rob Reiner in recent days brought to mind his time making a movie in Mississippi in the 1990s.
By Sid Salter - Contributing Columnist on
2 months 4 weeks ago
Sen. Nicole Boyd, R-Oxford, takes notes during a presentation by Mississippi Department of Child Services Commissioner Andrea Sanders, during a study group on women, children and family, held at the State Capitol, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024 in Jackson. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today
State lawmakers and leaders of Mississippi’s public colleges and universities are examining ways to increase the number of adults who complete some form of education after high school, land a job and earn a living wage.
The initial conversations, held Wednesday and Thursday during a joint meeting of the state House and Senate committees on universities and colleges, will likely continue during the 2026 legislative session.
Here are four key takeaways from the committee meetings.
By Candice Wilder - Mississippi Today on
2 months 4 weeks ago
For much of Thursday night’s Sugar Bowl showdown with Georgia, it looked as if Ole Miss’ dream football season was careening toward a rude wake-up call.
Luckily for Rebel fans, Trinidad Chambliss found the snooze button.
The Ole Miss quarterback put together a performance for the ages, passing for 362 yards and two touchdowns to rally his team to a stunning 39-34 win over the SEC Champion Bulldogs.
By Tyler Cleveland - Mississippi Today on
2 months 4 weeks ago
Mississippi policymakers believe today’s young people are woefully undereducated on how to manage their money.
The state’s public high schools now require that students take a semester-long course in personal finance. Starting next school year, the concepts will start being introduced to middle schoolers.
Some in the Legislature think that’s not enough. Sen. Nichole Boyd, who chairs that chamber’s Committee on Universities and Colleges, says there will be an effort during the 2026 session to mandate that all college students take a financial literacy course.
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The Mississippi Department of Education gives lots of reasons as to why a third of the school districts in the state are behind on their annual financial audits.
According to MDE, the accountability first got off track in 2011 when the State Auditor’s Office had a staffing shortage and fell behind in reviewing the audits, which are performed by private accounting firms hired by the school districts. Then came the COVID-19 pandemic, which slowed everything down again. Plus, there are fewer accounting firms doing this type of work.
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