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2 weeks 6 days ago
A 17-year-old Grenada girl was shot and killed early Wednesday morning on South Levee Street, according to authorities.
Grenada Police Chief George Douglas said officers responded to reports of a shooting in the 300 block of South Levee Street around 1:46 a.m. Wednesday. When officers arrived, they found 17-year-old L’Zaiyah Jones suffering from a gunshot wound. She was unresponsive at the scene.
Paramedics with MedStat Emergency Medical Services were initially called to the scene.Grenada County Coroner Douglas “Little Bobby” Yates pronounced Jones dead upon his arrival.
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2 weeks 6 days ago
Keith Turner, an attorney with Jackson law firm Watkins & Eager gave the Rotary Club of North Jackson an update on Jackson’s flood control projects.
This is the one that started out as John McGowan’s Two Lakes, then became One Lake and is now called the “Pearl River Federal Risk Management Project.”
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3 weeks ago
Below is a political opinion column by Roger Wicker:
U.S. Senator Roger Wicker says President Donald Trump used military force to protect the United States and make the world safer.
President Trump recently made the most difficult decision a commander-in-chief can make. He ordered American service members into action. The president concluded that the time had come to strike the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism, the Iranian regime. I believe the decision was profound, deliberate, and correct.
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3 weeks ago
Below is a religion column by Matt Friedeman:
Samaritans typically hated Jews. But with the sun shining overhead, the woman came to understood that the real Water was right before her very eyes.
This morning one of the guys in my discipleship group shared an interesting nuance of the “Women at the Well” narrative from the Gospel of John, chapter four.
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3 weeks 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.
By Frank Corder - Magnolia Tribune on
3 weeks ago
With songs like “Stand By Your Man,” “D-I-V-O-R-C-E,” and “Til I Can Make It on My Own,” Tammy Wynette became one of the most recognizable voices in the genre.
Some of the best places in Mississippi are the ones you almost drive past.
The ones tucked just off a two-lane road that you notice out of the corner of your eye while heading somewhere else.
That’s exactly how I first discovered the Tammy Wynette Legacy Center in Tremont.
By Meredith Biesinger - Magnolia Tribune on
3 weeks ago
The goal is to help build infrastructure for approved energy projects, which the Mississippi Development Authority says will improve long-term energy readiness at key industrial sites.
Mississippi lawmakers are debating whether to invest millions into energy infrastructure for economic development across the state.
By Daniel Tyson - Magnolia Tribune on
3 weeks ago
The House measure would allow licensed business with an alcohol permit to purchase their stock from any willing provider if ABC doesn’t fulfill their order in 5 days. This allowance would be in effect for 2 years.
To address the backlog that has plagued the state’s Alcoholic Beverage Control for months, the Mississippi House of Representatives amended a Senate bill last week through a strike-all amendment that would allow licensed and permitted businesses to purchase stock from other avenues when ABC fails to make timely deliveries.
By Jeremy Pittari - Magnolia Tribune on
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks 1 day ago
Important state and national stories, market and business news, sports and entertainment, delivered in quick-hit fashion to start your day informed.
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3 weeks 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day 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.
By Frank Corder - Magnolia Tribune on
3 weeks 3 days 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
3 weeks 3 days 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.
By David Ibsen - Magnolia Tribune on
3 weeks 3 days 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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3 weeks 3 days 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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3 weeks 3 days ago
A severe thunderstorm watch has been issued for parts of Louisiana and Mississippi until 9 p.m. Saturday.
Mississippi counties included in the watch area issued by the National Weather Service include Adams, Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Claiborne, Clarke, Clay, Copiah, Covington, Franklin, Grenada, Hinds, Holmes, Humphreys, Issaquena, Jasper, Jefferson, Jefferson Davis, Jones, Kemper, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Leake, Leflore, Lincoln, Lowndes, Madison, Montgomery, Neshoba, Newton, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Rankin, Scott, Sharkey, Simpson, Smith, Warren, Webster, Winston and Yazoo.
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3 weeks 4 days ago
State Rep. Becky Currie aims to review the inmate welfare fund and reduce prison deaths, among other reforms passed by the House.
The Mississippi House of Representatives has inserted language from its measures aimed at improving the wellbeing of inmates into Senate bills after the House bills died.
State Rep. Becky Currie (R) introduced the strike-all amendments to SB 2041 and SB 2778 in an effort to keep her prison reform efforts introduced earlier in the session alive.
By Jeremy Pittari - Magnolia Tribune on
3 weeks 4 days ago
The Magnolia State will be the first state to ban neutrality agreements in the workplace and just the fourth to enact the right to a private ballot in unionization efforts.
With the signature of Governor Tate Reeves (R), Mississippi will become the first state in the U.S. to ban so-called neutrality agreements in the workplace.
A “neutrality agreement” is a contract between a union and an employer under which the employer agrees to support a union’s attempt to organize its workforce.
By Frank Corder - Magnolia Tribune on
