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Publisher buys 3 Alabama newspapers in multi-state shopping spree
ATHENS, Ala. — A rapidly growing publisher is buying 10 newspapers in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi from a company owned by Alabama's public pension fund. Carpenter Media Group said Thursday that it's buying the newspapers from CNHI. No price was disclosed. Among the newspapers being sold are three in...
5 honored during 2024 Mississippi Public Safety Summit
FLOWOOD, Miss. (WJTV) – During the 2024 Mississippi Public Safety Summit, Governor Tate Reeves, Attorney General Lynn Fitch, and Commissioner Sean Tindell presented this year’s Governor’s Public Safety Awards. This year’s honorees are: First Responders of the Year: “Let me say this as clearly as possible – Lt. Kennedy and Officer Brantley are both heroes,” said […]
DOJ: Mississippi has highest incarceration rate in US
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – A recent report from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) revealed that prison is part of more people’s reality in Mississippi than in any other state. The late 2023 report from the DOJ analyzed data among prisons in 2021 and 2022. The United States imprisons 311 out of every 100,000 residents. Mississippi imprisons more than twice […]
National Folk Festival to be held in Mississippi’s capital from 2025 through 2027
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi’s capital city has been tapped to host the National Folk Festival from 2025 through 2027. The free, three-day festival is set to be held in downtown Jackson during the second week of November in each of those years and will feature music, art, dance and food from cultures throughout the nation and around the world, The Clarion Ledger reported.
Thriving Urban Music Scene in South Mississippi
We wanted to take a deep dive into the work of urban music in a place that people usually don't consider a destination for urban music. The Mississippi Gulf Coast and Mississippi pine Belt areas are thriving with talented young hip hop, rap, and r&b artists. We wanted to take a look at just a few of the people and companies that are paving the way for the urban scene in the area.
Growing publisher buying 10 newspapers in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A rapidly growing publisher is buying 10 newspapers in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi from a company owned by Alabama’s public pension fund. Carpenter Media Group said Thursday that it’s buying the newspapers from CNHI. No price was disclosed. Among the newspapers being sold...
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