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• Mississippi Medicaid seeks $179M budget increase, less than in 2025

  02-10-2026 22:55 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  The Mississippi Division of Medicaid asked lawmakers for a roughly $179 million increase in state spending for the coming fiscal year after receiving a steep increase last year that squeezed other parts of the state’s budget. The proposed increase for the fisc
  
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• Christa Pike on a ventilator and unconscious after failed execution in Tennessee, attorneys say

  02-10-2026 22:21 via mississippitoday.org
  
  Christa Pike was placed on a ventilator and remained unconscious in a hospital in the hours after her failed execution in Tennessee, her attorneys said in a court filing Friday.This photo provided by the Tennessee Department of Correction shows Christa Pike on Jan. 12, 2023.Credit: TDOC via APHospital staff, her lawyers said, were working to save Pike’s life and as of late Thursday were trying to clear the two doses of the drug that the state uses to execute prisoners.The stunning failure
  
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• Father and son arrested in Ole Miss kratom-suspected deaths

  02-10-2026 22:19 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  A father and son have been arrested for selling packages of kratom tied to the overdose deaths of two University of Mississippi students, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District announced Friday. Store clerk Yahya Mohamed Mosleh, 51, and Islam Yah
  
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• Kosciusko Shuts Out Gentry in First Game of Region Play

  02-10-2026 22:02 via breezynews.com
  
  The still-undefeated Kosciusko Whippets football team traveled to Indianola Friday evening to take on the Gentry Rams in the first game of regional play.
  The Whippets ran the first quarter with a score of 14-0, and 21-0 at the half.  Continuing their shutout, it was 35-0 after the third quarter and 48-0 for the final.
  The offensive line was named the Autumn Ridge Players of the Game.  Now, that is something to smile about!
  Next week will arguably be the regular season game of the year
  
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• Mississippi’s brain drain problem starts with the first job, CEO says

  02-10-2026 21:45 via mississippitoday.org
  
  Mississippi Today Ideas is a platform for thoughtful ideas to be shared about our state’s past, present and future. Opinions expressed in guest essays are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of Mississippi Today. You can read more about the section here.  Mississippi has spent years debating how to keep talented young people from leaving or to stop the brain drain.Artificial intelligence adds a new dimension to that challenge. The risk is not simply tha
  
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• Hinds County could lose off-site body storage

  02-10-2026 20:55 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  Hinds County may soon end its six-year arrangement providing a temporary morgue space to handle a backlog of unclaimed bodies that began during the COVID-19 pandemic and a rise in homicides. Robert Graham, president of the Hinds County Board of Supervisors, said the
  
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• Photos: Leake County Raises Over $16,000.00 for Make-A-Wish Mississippi

  02-10-2026 20:19 via breezynews.com
  
  More than $16,000 was raised in Leake County Friday as Boswell Media kicked off its Make-A-Wish Mississippi Radiothons. Citizens throughout the community showed up to donate and help grant wishes for critically ill children in our local communities.
  The “Jail & Bail” portion of the Make-A-Wish MS Radiothons is a crowd favorite, and several local officials and community members were “locked up” today. They were tasked with raising money for their “bail”. Mu
  
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• Mississippi households could pay more for energy because of federal policy changes

  02-10-2026 19:42 via mississippitoday.org
  
  Households in the contiguous United States will pay thousands of dollars more for energy through 2040 because of federal policy changes since President Donald Trump returned to office such as canceling new clean energy projects, according to modeling released Friday by a nonpartisan think tank.The Energy Innovation analysis found that households will pay an average of $6,500 more for energy, cumulatively through 2040. In five states, households will pay roughly $9,000 more: Oregon, Mississippi,
  
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• VIDEO STREAM – Kosciusko vs Gentry

  02-10-2026 19:15 via breezynews.com
  
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• Grant will expand Fannie Lou Hamer Digital Driving Tour

  02-10-2026 18:08 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  RULEVILLE – A nonprofit that supports organizations that advance social justice is enabling the expansion of the Fannie Lou Hamer Digital Driving Tour as the country commemorates the 109th anniversary of the civil rights icon’s birth.The Jonathan Logan Family
  
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• Will Mississippi better prepare for the next winter storm? Officials are dubious.

  02-10-2026 17:21 via mississippitoday.org
  
  As autumn begins to take hold in north Mississippi, leaves are falling onto roads still littered with tree limbs and other debris from last winter’s torment, state officials said. Over eight months since Winter Storm Fern, the Mississippi Department of Transportation said its “massive” debris cleanup effort will likely last until Halloween. Officials in three counties – Lafayette, Union and Tishomingo – estimated they amassed roughly 2.5 million cubic yards &n
  
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• Golf cart raises questions at Hinds DA’s office. Where did the money come from? 

  02-10-2026 16:00 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  Sitting in a corner of a parking garage underneath the Hinds County Courthouse is an electric golf cart with chrome wheels, white stitching on black seats, and a gray seal on four sides bearing the name of the Hinds County District Attorney’s Office and its former
  
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• Felony Malicious Mischief, Felony DUI, and Felony Drug Arrests in Carthage and Leake County

  02-10-2026 14:00 via breezynews.com
  
  LAZERRIES COLEMAN, 27, of Canton, Bench Warrant – Leake County Justice Court, LCSO.  Bond N/A.
   JEREMIAH D HALL, 30, of Dallas, TX, DUI – 1st, Possession of Marijuana, Possession of Paraphernalia, Open Container, CPD.  Bond $1,351, $1,639.25, $674.25, $389.25.
   CLIFFTON HOSKINS, 36, of Kosciusko, Hold for Other Agency – Holmes County Circuit Court, LCSO.  Bond N/A.
   JAMES D LUCAS, 37, of Winona, Felony Possession of a Controlled Substance, Possessi
  
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• Fiery crowd caps redistricting hearings. Opponents urge: ‘Leave our maps alone’

  02-10-2026 13:05 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  Tempers flared Thursday at a packed redistricting hearing at the Mississippi Capitol, where a large majority of speakers criticized what they said was a power grab aimed at diminishing Black political power and further entrenching Republican dominance over state politics
  
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• Holmes Bulldogs Fall to Itawamba Indians 31-15

  02-10-2026 00:08 via breezynews.com
  
  The Holmes Community College Bulldogs football team traveled to Fulton to play the Itawamba Community College Indians tonight.  After both teams went scoreless in the opening quarter, the Bulldogs were down by 3 points at halftime, 10-7. In the second half, the Indians scored two additional touchdowns in the 3rd quarter while keeping the Bulldogs off the scoreboard giving Itawamba a 24-7 lead going into the final quarter. Both teams would add points in the final quarter but Holmes came up s
  
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