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Sportswear leader Nike has announced the company is laying off approximately 775 employees at distribution centers in Mississippi and Tennessee.
It is unclear how the layoffs will impact the centers in Byhalia, Southaven and Memphis.
The cuts follow nearly 1,000 corporate jobs Nike slashed during the summer of 2025.
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1 month 2 weeks ago
Ever since the National Flood Insurance Program was created in 1968, the federal program has struggled to find the sweet spot of how much to charge for the coverage. And that cost affects those seeking to purchase land and build in Tate County.
If premiums are too low, the taxpayers, including those who don’t live in flood-prone areas, make up the difference when a hurricane or other major natural disaster hits and the cost of claims exceeds what NFIP has in reserve.
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1 month 2 weeks ago
Mississippi environmental officials will hold a hearing Feb. 17 where members of the public can comment on a proposed permit to run 41 new turbines at xAI’s facility in Southaven.
The meeting will be held at 6 p.m. at Northwest Mississippi Community College’s DeSoto County campus in Southaven.
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1 month 2 weeks ago
The Mississippi Development Authority announced Tuesday that Siemens Energy is investing up to $300 million and creating up to 300 new advanced manufacturing jobs through an expansion in Rankin County.
The move is part of the company’s $1 billion investment in its U.S. manufacturing operations.
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1 month 2 weeks ago
The governor would be tasked with appointing both the CIO and the executive director of the new agency.
The Senate Government Structure Committee advanced two bills last week aimed at increasing the state’s cybersecurity against hackers.
The committee passed amended versions of SB 2625 and SB 2636, after unanimously voting to add reverse repealers to the measures to allow further work on the bills.
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1 month 2 weeks ago
The move is part of the company’s $1 billion investment in its U.S. manufacturing operations. The Rankin County site will create roughly 300 new jobs.
The Mississippi Development Authority announced Tuesday that Siemens Energy is investing up to $300 million and creating up to 300 new advanced manufacturing jobs through an expansion in Rankin County.
The move is part of the company’s $1 billion investment in its U.S. manufacturing operations.
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1 month 2 weeks ago
An adopted amendment to the bill added the ability for the public to remove members through a recall vote.
A bill that would require all school boards members to be elected in the state of Mississippi passed out of the House Education committee on Thursday. It was also amended to include a recall process for board members if the electorate decides the process is needed.
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1 month 2 weeks ago
Below is a religion column by Matt Friedeman:
Life is hard here. And yet the Christian leaders are largely ebullient and eager to see what God might do through their ministries in the challenge that is Lagos.
Getting off the plane a week ago in Lagos, Nigeria, I was benevolently assaulted with… Africa.
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1 month 2 weeks ago
Below is an opinion column by Nathan Sanders:
Employers considering long-term investments care deeply about whether a state can produce capable workers year after year. Education policies that improve attainment help answer that question.
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1 month 2 weeks ago
Below is a political opinion column by Starla Brown and Thomas Kimbrell:
The implication is clear: exempting facilities and services from CON restrictions will expand access to them.
On January 28, a federal district court struck down Mississippi’s long-standing moratorium on the establishment of certain new health care facilities, calling the forty-year application of the moratorium “irrational.”
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Lt. Governor Hosemann told reporters the bills were the result of legislators “wanting to get a head of the game.”
The Senate Appropriations Committee has passed a measure to transfer $20 million into the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency’s disaster assistance fund after an ice storm swept through parts of Mississippi.
The funds would come out of the state’s Capital Expense fund.
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1 month 2 weeks ago
One measure would extend the validity of medical cannabis cards while another would create the “Right to Try Medical Cannabis Act.”
Two bills related to Mississippi’s medical cannabis program passed in the House of Representatives this week.
One bill extends the timeframe for a patient’s follow-up visit to keep their medical cannabis card valid, while a second bill creates a system where patients suffering from debilitating or terminal conditions not already on the state’s list of approved conditions can petition to try medical cannabis.
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1 month 2 weeks ago
Lula Mae Servaty, 92, of Senatobia, Miss., passed away on January 31, 2026.
A private graveside service will be held at a later date at Charles Memorial Gardens in Leonardtown, Md.
Pate-Jones Funeral Home had charge of the arrangements.
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1 month 2 weeks ago
On May 8, 1952, a sunny late spring day, Hermine, A.K.A.
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1 month 2 weeks ago
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., and U.S. Representatives Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., Trent Kelly, R-Miss., Michael Guest, R-Miss., and Mike Ezell, R-Miss., applauded President Trump for approving Mississippi’s request for a major disaster declaration following deadly Winter Storm Fern which struck the state from January 23-27, 2026.
This approval unlocks federal resources to support recovery efforts across Mississippi. The declaration approves Public Assistance for 38 counties, including Tate County.
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1 month 3 weeks ago
The federal government approved mass replacement of benefits for recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, in 15 Mississippi counties hard-hit by the treacherous January ice storm that swept through Mississippi, the state Department of Human Services announced Friday.
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1 month 3 weeks ago
Let’s get right to it: Archie Manning does not have terminal brain cancer as has been posted on social media several times in recent days.
I pretty much knew that, but checked in by phone, just to make sure.
“My back hurts,” Archie told me. “Can’t seem to get much relief. But, no, I don’t have brain cancer that I know of.”
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1 month 3 weeks ago
The Northwest Mississippi Community College Foundation is proud to announce that Senatobia attorney, John T. Lamar Jr., will be honored with the Spirit of Northwest Award at the Northwest Soiree - A Garden Gala on April 18, 2026 at the Heindl Center for the Performing Arts.
A football alumnus of the college who enrolled as a freshman in 1970, played and studied at the college for two years. During his sophomore year, he married his wife and fellow attorney, Ann Hannaford Lamar.
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1 month 3 weeks ago
Arrest report
This is a list taken from the log at the Tate County Jail. A name listed does not indicate that a person is guilty of the crime with which they are charged, only that the person was taken and processed at the facility. Tate Record publishes all arrests listed on the docket without exception.
Jan. 14
Kawaski Derrell Anderson, DOB 11/9/90, of Ruleville, was charged with contempt of court/failure to appear by TCSO.
Jan. 15
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1 month 3 weeks ago
The fifth week of the 2026 Regular Session has concluded with a large number of bills moving forward in the Mississippi Legislature with local impact.
February 3 marked the deadline for committees to report general bills and constitutional amendments. February 12 is the deadline for original floor action on these measures, and February 13 is the deadline for their reconsideration and passage.
During the week, the House considered and passed several significant pieces of legislation, including:
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