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The Pat Harrison Waterway District held their monthly meeting in Hattiesburg on January 20 and 22, 2026. Committee members and the Board of Directors from all counties were present.
Many issues were discussed, voted on, passed, or tabled from all parks throughout the district.
The Archusa Creek Water Park dam repairs were discussed and information shared at his time was the building of a cofferdam around the break in the dam and damage to the weir dam.
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State Rep. Lee Yancey said the goal is to push patients toward variants of medical cannabis they do not have to smoke.
A bill that passed out of the Mississippi House Business and Commerce Committee aims to remove the limits on THC content in concentrated forms of medical cannabis in an effort to move people away from its combustible forms.
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Sarah Adlakha, a Chicago native, is running against incumbent U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith in the March 10 Republican Primary Election.
With less than six weeks before the party primary election, political newcomer Sarah Adlakha is attempting to draw distinctions between herself and her opponent in the Republican Primary, incumbent U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith.
Adlakha is selling herself as the outsider fighting against “entrenched political interests.” On Thursday, Adlakha said if elected, she would not accept money “from Washington lobbyists.”
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One state funded scholarship program focuses on traditional students, while the second is geared toward older, returning students.
Bills passed out of the Mississippi Senate Universities and Colleges Committee this week that seek to ensure the financial literacy of students, amend a current state funded financial aid assistance program, and address workforce shortages across the state by offering aid to non-traditional students.
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The arrest records are published weekly and information in the records is obtained directly from the Clarke County Sheriff’s Department Docket Book. Names of those arrested are not and will not be withheld by request or fee. The arrest docket book is public record and is permissible to view by the public.
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The arrest records are published weekly and information in the records is obtained directly from the Clarke County Sheriff’s Department Docket Book. Names of those arrested are not and will not be withheld by request or fee. The arrest docket book is public record and is permissible to view by the public.
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In finding portions of Mississippi’s home health agency “Certificate of Need” laws unconstitutional, U.S. District Court judge Carlton Reeves said, “the Court cannot escape the absurdity in maintaining an out-right moratorium for over forty years.”
A federal judge on Wednesday struck down Mississippi’s decades-old moratorium on new home health agencies, ruling the state’s blanket ban on new licenses violates the Fourteenth Amendment.
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The March of the Mayors is one of the many endeavors Extra Table undertakes throughout the year to supply much-needed healthy food to pantry and soup kitchen partners around the state.
Extra Table’s mission is to feed healthy food to underserved Mississippians. Money for that mission is raised through donations and through a series of creative fundraising events.
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The third week of the 2026 Regular Session has concluded, with the Mississippi House focusing its floor activity primarily on health care and regulatory matters. On Wednesday, the House considered and passed four House Bills following debate and discussion among members.
House Bill 314, the Ibogaine Drug Development Clinical Trial Act, authorizes the establishment of clinical trials to study the use of the psychedelic drug ibogaine as a potential treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and substance addiction.
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Entergy Mississippi CEO Haley Fisackerly speaks with The Grenada Star's Publisher Adam Prestridge during his visit to view storm damage in Grenada Thursday afternoon.
Winter Storm Fern coated Grenada County and much of north Mississippi in a thick layer of ice last weekend, uprooting trees, snapping limbs and loading down power lines and poles, leaving thousands of Entergy Mississippi customers in the dark for days.
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Hospitals and health facilities in Mississippi are continuing to provide critical care to patients in the wake of a treacherous winter storm, even as they endure power outages, impassable roads and no running water.
Scott Simmons, Mississippi Emergency Management Authority’s external affairs director, said his agency is working to bring 30 generators to North Mississippi hospitals, long-term care facilities, nursing homes and warming centers. He said multiple locations had generators that failed over the weekend, and only some had come back online by Monday morning.
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Delta State’s nationally renowned NCAA Division II baseball team was supposed to open the 2026 season Friday against Harding (Arkansas) University in Cleveland.
That won’t happen. Boo Ferriss Field at Harvey Stadium on the DSU campus in Cleveland is covered in ice and snow. At noon Monday, the temperature was 21 degrees. The wind chill was 7. The weekend forecast is for more freezing temperatures. The DSU Statesmen are sometimes called the Fighting Okra, but they would be more like Eskimos if they played this weekend.
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Delta State’s nationally renowned NCAA Division II baseball team was supposed to open the 2026 season Friday against Harding (Arkansas) University in Cleveland.
That won’t happen. Boo Ferriss Field at Harvey Stadium on the DSU campus in Cleveland is covered in ice and snow. At noon Monday, the temperature was 21 degrees. The wind chill was 7. The weekend forecast is for more freezing temperatures. The DSU Statesmen are sometimes called the Fighting Okra, but they would be more like Eskimos if they played this weekend.
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As with tens of thousands of fellow Mississippians since a winter storm struck during the weekend, the Hood family of Oxford was coping with the loss of electricity as best they could early Monday in their Northpointe neighborhood home about 2 miles north of Square.
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Robert St. John says some drinks come and go. Trends pass through fast and leave just as quickly. Iced tea never left.
Iced tea has been called the house wine of the South. Rick Bragg once wrote that a glass of iced tea can tell you just about everything you need to know about where you are and who you’re with, and he wasn’t wrong. Around here, iced tea is just part of how things are done. It shows up early and sticks around.
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Below is a religion column by Matt Friedeman:
May we follow Paul’s example, cherishing and celebrating older men or women who have spent their lives in faithful service to God and others.
In a recent discipleship group meeting, as we were reading in 1 Timothy, one of the guys pointed out a verse on “widows” and commented, “Man, that is a perfect picture of the abundant life…a life well-lived.” It was. It is!
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Below is a political opinion column by Russ Latino:
It is rooted in a very old conservative belief that parents, not the government, are responsible for raising and educating their children. They do not belong to the state.
Social media in Mississippi is abuzz with misinformation and scare tactics over school choice after the Mississippi House of Representatives passed a Trump-backed plan to deliver meaningful options to families in the Magnolia State.
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Wilkinson County School District has a history of persistently poor academic performance and has not completed an annual financial audit since June 2022.
The Mississippi State Board of Education (MDE) recently announced that they had placed the Wilkinson County School District into a District of Transformation due to serious academic deficiencies. MDE said the deficiencies demonstrate the district’s inability to provide students with an adequate and stable education.
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Stewpot Community Services Director of Shelter Services Javonda Stanton, left, checks in people seeking shelter at the Opportunity Center as a winter storm heads to the area, Friday, Jan. 23, 2026 in Jackson, Miss. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today
Jackson’s homeless shelters opened additional beds ahead of a potentially devastating ice storm to protect vulnerable residents from the freeze.
But advocates say it would not be enough to serve the city’s entire unhoused population – some of whom will weather the storm outside in tents, tarps and sleeping bags.
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