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MHP announces 2024 Independence Day Enforcement Period
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – The Mississippi Highway Patrol (MHP) will conduct its 2024 Independence Day Holiday Travel Period. The travel period will begin on Thursday, July 4 at 6:00 a.m. and conclude on Sunday, July 7 at midnight. “As we make the plans to celebrate this Independence Day weekend, let’s also commit to making safety […]
Traveling out of town for Independence Day weekend?
JACKSON, Miss. — Headed out of town for the Fourth of July?. Whether you’re headed to the beach or staying home, you won’t be escaping the heat. Not only will the sun be bearing down on us, but there is also the chance for rain almost everywhere in the South.
Waffle House earns ‘B’ rating
BROOKHAVEN — Mississippi Department of Health reported eight local establishments passed restaurant inspections last week. All were “A” ratings with the exception of Waffle House which earned a “B” rating. According to the records, Waffle House is located at 954 Brookway Boulevard and earned a “B” rating for the eighth time since 2016. Waffle House […] The post Waffle House earns ‘B’ rating appeared first on Daily Leader.
Local lottery winners claim nearly $5,000 in prizes
BROOKHAVEN — Mississippi Lottery Corporation reported two local and recent winners claimed nearly $5,000 in prize money. A woman from Brookhaven and a man from Summit won the prizes in the past week. Mississippi Lottery Corporation reported the Summit man bought a Mega-Millions ticket on June 20 from Crossroads Quick Stop in Summit. He claimed […] The post Local lottery winners claim nearly $5,000 in prizes appeared first on Daily Leader.
Aubreigh Wyatt’s mom sued, accused of slandering South MS teens over daughter’s suicide
The teenagers have been threatened by social media commenters from around the world because of Heather Wyatt’s online accusations, the lawsuit filed by their parents says.
Man sentenced for armed robbery of Gulfport Hardee’s
GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - District Attorney W. Crosby Parker announced that 34-year-old Charles Darkeith Brown, of Gulfport, pleaded guilty to armed robbery of a Hardees on Highway 49 in Gulfport. The robbery happened on January 2, 2023, when employees at the Hardees were getting ready to close the restaurant. Employees...
Body found near railroad tracks ID’d as Mississippi man reportedly living outside house after fire
The body of a Mississippi man reportedly forced to live outside after a house fire was found along a set of railroad tracks Tuesday afternoon,. WTVA in Tupelo reports that officials from Lowndes County identified the body found by a railroad worker performing a routine inspection. The body was identified...
MS Transplant recipients participate in 2024 Transplant Games of America
FLOWOOD, Miss. (WLBT) - It’s just days from the start of the Paris Olympics, and another group of athletes will be representing Mississippi in the 2024 Transplant Games of America in Birmingham. The event allows participants to show what’s possible in life after organ transplants. “I started in...
Delta In a Minute 7-3
GULFPORT, MISSISSIPPI - 42-year-old Rusty Holloway of Gulfport pleaded guilty to brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime violence. According to documents, Holloway brandished a firearm on October of 2022 at a U.S. postal employee mail carrier when she was delivering mail to a residence in Gulfport. Holloway is...
She won a Pulitzer for exposing how the country's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail.
When Anna Wolfe won the Pulitzer Prize for her dogged reporting on Mississippi’s welfare fraud scandal, she had no inkling she was soon going to have to contend with the possibility of going to jail. But just over a year after she secured journalism’s top award for exposing how...
Researchers work to identify 82 million-year-old dinosaur found in Mississippi
It's the most complete dinosaur ever found in Mississippi, but exactly what it was remains a mystery. It's been identified as a hadrosaur; a member of a family of similar dinosaurs, and it roamed what is now Northeast Mississippi about 82 million years ago. It was an herbivore measuring 25-26 feet long and when standing on its back legs was about 16 feet tall.
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