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Notes, quotes and an opinion or two from a Crescent City still buzzing Friday morning from Thursday night’s instant college football classic in the Sugar Bowl:
• Las Vegas oddsmakers have made Miami a three-point favorite over Ole Miss for next Thursday’s Fiesta Bowl in Tempe, Arizona. Oddsmakers set the over-under point total at 51.5. Undefeated and top-seeded Indiana is a four-point pick over Oregon in the Peach Bowl.
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Donna Steelman poses for a portrait inside of her home in Starkville, Miss., Tuesday, Nov. 11 2025. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today
Tears well up in Donna Steelman’s eyes as she looks out at her flower garden, wilted from the first November frost, remembering her three closest friends.
One passed away from cancer two years ago. Another is currently battling a terminal illness. The third is incarcerated in a facility 80 miles away, with an infection she fears could one day kill her, though it is highly curable. Steelman prays her friend — “one of the few I’ve got left alive” — will be released from prison, but worries her homecoming will be bittersweet.
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In a book “Intersections: Seeking Self at Parchman Prison,” Sally Lott McLellan wrote about how her art class and volunteer work was a journey of self-discovery for her students and herself.
In the harsh and colorless confines of the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, nine men hunkered down over an array of vibrant hues and used pencils, crayons, kindergarten scissors, cloth and milk jugs to create masks and a headdress, pencil drawings and wall hangings, shell necklaces and Gullah dolls.
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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.
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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.
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Could the outcome have been different?
A statewide group tasked with reviewing domestic violence homicides and other related deaths will begin to look at missed opportunities to offer resources and intervention to change future outcomes.
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James Mabry, 86, of Senatobia, Miss., passed away Tuesday, December 30, 2025.
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James Mabry, 86, of Senatobia, Miss., passed away Tuesday, December 30, 2025.
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James Mabry, 86, of Senatobia, Miss., passed away Tuesday, December 30, 2025.
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James Mabry, 86, of Senatobia, Miss., passed away Tuesday, December 30, 2025.
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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.
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The No. 6 Ole Miss Rebels have punched their ticket to the College Football Playoff Semifinals after taking down No. 3 Georgia 39-34, Thursday night in the Allstate Sugar Bowl.
The Rebels (13-1) erased a nine-point halftime deficit, orchestrating one of the more dramatic second half comebacks in recent CFP history. Until now, Georgia had won 53 straight games when leading at the half, which was the longest active streak in the FBS, and 75 straight wins when leading after three quarters.
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Could the outcome have been different?
A statewide group tasked with reviewing domestic violence homicides and other related deaths will begin to look at missed opportunities to offer resources and intervention to change future outcomes.
By Mina Corpuz - Mississippi Today on
2 months 4 weeks ago
Could the outcome have been different?
A statewide group tasked with reviewing domestic violence homicides and other related deaths will begin to look at missed opportunities to offer resources and intervention to change future outcomes.
By Mina Corpuz - Mississippi Today on
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Mississippi has 1,534 listings in the National Register of Historic Places.
Fifteen sites in Mississippi were listed in the National Register for 2025, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History announced this week.
The 15 sites included in the National Register, with descriptions from MDAH, are:
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Mississippi has 1,534 listings in the National Register of Historic Places.
Fifteen sites in Mississippi were listed in the National Register for 2025, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History announced this week.
The 15 sites included in the National Register, with descriptions from MDAH, are:
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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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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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Trinidad Chambliss continues to write one of the most fascinating stories in college football history. If this wasn’t football, you’d call it a fairy tale. All that’s missing are magic beans and silver slippers.
Here Thursday night at the jam-packed Superdome, one of the world’s most famous sports venues, Chambliss willed the Ole Miss Rebels to a scintillating 39-34 Sugar Bowl victory over the proud Georgia Bulldogs. He did it with his strong right arm. He did it with his legs. He did it with courage and with uncommon flair.
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