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Ole Miss Rifle Team Hosts 2024 Open Tournament for Male and Female Competitors
The Ole Miss Rifle team will host its annual Open Tournament on September 18-19, 2024, at the Ole Miss Rifle Range, welcoming both male and female competitors. High school females in their sophomore-senior years can also take part in an Unofficial Visit during the same weekend. Participants need to arrive 45 minutes prior to their relay and must provide their own shooting equipment. Registration opens on August 5, 2024, with priority given to female entries in the combined aggregate event.
Favre challenges a judge's order that blocked his lead attorney in Mississippi welfare lawsuit
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre says a Mississippi judge improperly blocked his lead attorney from representing him in a state civil lawsuit that seeks to recover misspent welfare money. Using another of his attorneys, Favre filed an appeal Thursday asking the Mississippi Supreme Court to overturn the ruling that Hinds County Circuit Judge Faye Peterson issued July 11. The Mississippi Department of Human Services filed a civil lawsuit in 2022 against Favre and more than three dozen other people, groups and companies. The state auditor has said welfare money that was supposed to help some of the poorest residents in the U.S. was spent instead on projects pushed by wealthy and well-connected people, including a university volleyball arena backed by Favre. Peterson wrote in her order that one of Favre’s New York-based attorneys, Daniel Koevary, had violated rules for Mississippi civil court procedures by repeatedly demanding hearings “for matters unrelated to and not within the jurisdiction of this Court to resolve.” Peterson also wrote that she deemed the behavior “an attempt to manufacture discord.”
USPS looking to hire mail carriers for rural communities
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - One of the 37 United States Postal Service job fairs across two states was held in Hattiesburg Thursday. USPS held the job fairs in Alabama and Mississippi to hire workers to service more than 100 cities. Right now, the postal service is looking for rural carriers...
Mississippi sees recent rise in COVID-19 cases
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Mississippi has seen a recent rise in COVID-19 cases, according to the Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH). “When people get around together, you know, you have a lot of summer activities, people hanging out together. That’s where it comes from because it’s transferred from person to person,” said Greg Flynn, […]
Greenville ranks top 10 for fastest declining cities in the U.S.
GREENVILLE- From 2020 to 2023, Greenville’s population declined by 6.3 percent, making it the eighth-fastest-declining city in the U.S., according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Carter Maguire, a New York native who has been in Greenville for over a year, says he thinks all those people leaving are missing something.
Percy Quin State Park celebrates grand re-opening
MCCOMB — A crowd of people gathered at Percy Quin State Park’s Outdoor Chapel for the celebration of a grand re-opening of the park Friday. Last September, the park’s RV campground closed to guests as renovations were underway. Brian Ferguson, Chief of Parks Staff for Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks, reflected on the […] The post Percy Quin State Park celebrates grand re-opening appeared first on Daily Leader.
Players of the Pine Belt: Laurel WR Zechariah Jenkins
LAUREL, Miss. (WDAM) - Laurel High School surprised some folks last season, making a run to Mississippi’s Class 5A football state championship. The Golden Tornadoes return a lot of talent from that squad, including junior wide receiver Zechariah Jenkins. “This is where it all starts at,” Jenkins said. “Working...
The Neshoba County Fair wraps up its final day
PHILADELPHIA, Miss. (WTOK) -The Neshoba County Fair wrapped up its last day Friday, as people from all over came out each day to enjoy everything it had to offer. Each day, the fair consisted of live entertainment, horse racing, an intense chair race, the Neshoba County Fair Pageant, food, drinks, and much more.
Speeding cameras back in Hattiesburg school zones
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - While Hattiesburg Public School students headed back to the classrooms Friday morning, HPD officers returned to school zones with radar cameras. City leaders want drivers to be on the lookout for the flashing beacon near a school zone. “There is a very obvious blinking yellow light...