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Lee County jail work program gives felons opportunities to serve
The Lee County program that gives inmates the supervised opportunity to work in the community does a great deal of positive good, the sheriff says, not just for the community itself, but for the inmates doing the work. Lee County Sheriff Jim Johnson and his department have been operating an inmate work program for more than 20 years. The program is coordinated with the Mississippi Department ...
HEADS UP: Roadwork in Gulfport to cause traffic delays
GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - A busy Gulfport intersection will be closed on Monday morning. Detours will be in place from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Canal Road and Landon Road intersection as crews work to replace transformers in the area. According to the Board of Supervisors, the effort...
Residents in rural Hinds County growing weary of spotty electricity
EDWARDS, Miss. (WLBT) – Those of you living in rural parts of Hinds County are getting tired of the amount times you see the power out inside your homes. Over the last few months, many of you have reached out to us at WLBT about the issue. “We need...
Parents welcome quintuplets to make family of 9: ‘A dream come true’
JACKSON, Miss. (WDAM/Gray News) - The world got a little sweeter - five times sweeter, to be precise - as a Mississippi family welcomed quintuplets. Franklin Walker, Carter James, Saylor Kate, Allie Ray and Nova Mae were born last Friday at the University of Mississippi Medical Center to parents Ashley and Tyler Meyers. They are all in good health in the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit.
On this day in 1948
The Democratic National Convention adopted a platform that called for a federal anti-lynching law, the abolition of poll taxes and the desegregation of armed forces. The vote came to the floor as a minority report of the Platform Committee, the spokesman for it being then-Minneapolis Mayor, Hubert Humphrey. The entire...
Around the Diamond: MiLB Rebels shine; Ole Miss braces for MLB Draft impact
Ole Miss baseball is tied with three other teams for the third-most prospects (9) in Baseball America’s Top 500. LSU and Tennessee are tied for the most with 13 apiece. The question, of course, is how many of those highly-billed signees will actually make it to campus. The two-day, 2024 MLB Draft opens on Sunday.
Parents welcome quintuplets to make family of 9: ‘A dream come true’
JACKSON, Miss. (WDAM/Gray News) - The world got a little sweeter - five times sweeter, to be precise - as a Mississippi family welcomed quintuplets. Franklin Walker, Carter James, Saylor Kate, Allie Ray and Nova Mae were born last Friday at the University of Mississippi Medical Center to parents Ashley and Tyler Meyers. They are all in good health in the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit.
Couple-owned Salon Seraphina hosts grand opening in Biloxi
BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - There’s a new business in Biloxi specializing in hair, cosmetic tattoo makeup, waxing, and much more. “This is a three-business unit and this whole building just got completed,” explains co-owner Anthony Tran. “We’ve got two other businesses coming — Oh My Nails, which is a nail salon, and then we have a Snow & Boba Tea House.”
ESPN analyst Greg McElroy dubs Ole Miss as 'dark horse National Championship contender'
ESPN annalyst Greg McElroy believes. The former Alabama quarterback believes Ole Miss is a legitimate dark horse contender to win a national championship this season. Everyone knows that Lane Kiffin's offense is loaded with Heisman candidate Jaxson Dart at quarterback, arguably the nation's best group of wide receivers and tight ends and a retolled offensive line. But McElroy belives Ole Miss is a contender because of what it appears to have assmebled on the defensive side of the football. And he gives coordinator Pete Golding a big vote of confidence.
ERDC to receive $700,000 from MilCon-VA Bill
U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) this week voted for committee passage of an FY2025 appropriations measure that recommends $47.7 million for construction projects at military installations across Mississippi, including $700,000 to the Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) in Vicksburg. Hyde-Smith serves on the Senate Appropriations Committee that approved the FY2025 Military Construction and […]
Mississippi must move quickly on a court-ordered redistricting, say voting rights attorneys
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi should work quickly to fulfill the court-ordered redrawing of some legislative districts to ensure more equitable representation for Black residents, attorneys for voting rights groups said in a new court filing Friday. The attorneys also said it’s important to hold special elections in the...
Ole Miss football is heavily recruiting these 3 class of 2025 wide receivers
TI Mims Jr. - Bay Minette, AL. A high target for Ole Miss, TI Mims Jr. is a talented wide receiver with offers from Florida, Tennessee, South Carolina, Arizona State, and more. The Rebels are reportedly in pole position with Mims Jr., with the Baldwin County High School prospect set to visit Oxford on July 27 for Juice Fest.
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