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• AccelerateMS seeks $2.5M budget increase to expand staff and workforce programs

  14-10-2026 22:30 via Mississippi Today
  
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  Mississippi’s workforce development agency is seeking more state money to add staff as it launches and expands job training programs. The request comes as the state prepares for thousands of jobs to open in the next decade. AccelerateMS is requesting a $7.1 mi
  
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• Officials work to ‘modernize’ plan to improve health of Mississippians

  14-10-2026 21:01 via Mississippi Today
  
  The Mississippi State Department of Health is updating its blueprint for improving healthcare and public health systems. The new Comprehensive State Health Plan will establish priorities and strategies for enhancing access to care, addressing workforce and system challenges and supporting the sustainability of the state’s public health systems, said State Health Officer Dr. Daniel Edney at a Board of Health meeting Wednesday. “Instead of just monitoring, we’re trying
  
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• Fire Weather Watch for This Area Friday

  14-10-2026 20:57 via BreezyNews.com – Kosciusko News 24/7
  
  FIRE WEATHER WATCH shown in tan on map above
   
  The National Weather Service has issued a fire weather watch for much of Mississippi including the local area, in effect from 9 am until 8 pm on Friday.  A strong cold front is forecast to result in north winds up to 25 miles an hour with gusts possibly as high as 35 mph.  The winds, combined with low humidity and critically dry vegetation, will create conditions which are favorable for wildfires.  Any fires which break could spr
  
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• Update: North Natchez Shooting Suspects in Custody

  14-10-2026 20:30 via BreezyNews.com – Kosciusko News 24/7
  
  UPDATE (10/14/2026 at 9:15 pm): Kosciusko Police Department tells Breezy News the three suspects who are believed to be involved in the shooting are in custod. Their identities have not been released at this time.Approximately 4:30 pm on Wednesday, Kosciusko Police Department responded to shots fired on North Natchez Street near the North Natchez Apartments.  Currently, this is an ongoing investigation.  KPD is actively looking for the suspects.  BreezyNews will update you as info
  
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• Update: North Natchez Shooting Suspects Identified

  14-10-2026 20:30 via BreezyNews.com – Kosciusko News 24/7
  
  UPDATE (10/15//2026 at 9:15 am):
  The shooting suspects have been identified as Jakaine Tate, 22 of Kosciusko, Skuyler Ellington, 18 of Kosciusko, and Damarrius Carr, 22 of Kosciusko. Tate and Ellington are both charged with shooting into a general assembly or group of people and each have a bond set at $100,000. Carr was charged with shooting into a general assembly or group of people and possession of a weapon by a felon with a bond of $150,000. All three are currently at the Leake County Corre
  
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• Shooting on North Natchez Wednesday

  14-10-2026 20:30 via BreezyNews.com – Kosciusko News 24/7
  
  Approximately 4pm Wednesday, Kosciusko Police Department responded to shots fired on North Natchez Street.  Currently, this is an ongoing investigation.  KPD is actively looking for the suspects.  BreezyNews will update you as information because available.
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• Groups challenge ‘unnecessary’ data-center-fueled gas pipeline

  14-10-2026 18:36 via Mississippi Today
  
  ISOLA – Bobbie Miller doesn’t see why she should agree to let a company bury a gas pipeline on her family’s land in Isola.“It doesn’t have to be this way, so why settle for it?” she asked a reporter in late September. The family purchased the land in the 1940s as part of a federal government program, said Miller, who was mayor of the town of less than a thousand people from 2013 to 2017. “Come to find out, the government that sold it to you, t
  
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• Kamala Harris to campaign in Columbus for Scott Colom

  14-10-2026 17:13 via Mississippi Today
  
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  Former Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Mississippi to campaign for Scott Colom, Mississippi’s Democratic Senate nominee, in Columbus on Oct. 22, a campaign spokesperson told Mississippi Today.
  Harris’s stop in east Mississippi will mark the second
  
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• Former Ole Miss employee disputes university’s claims of disruption in latest court filing

  14-10-2026 16:29 via Mississippi Today
  
  A former University of Mississippi employee argues in a new court filing that Chancellor Glenn Boyce bowed to public pressure when he fired her because of backlash from a social media post about the killing of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. In a brief filed with the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week, Lauren Stokes, former executive assistant in the university’s development office, challenged Boyce’s claims that her post – or the resulting public outcry
  
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• Under attack: State looks to harden cybersecurity as AI changes the game

  14-10-2026 13:00 via Mississippi Today
  
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  Cyberattacks on government entities are increasing, the speed of attacks is accelerating and the impact could be far reaching thanks largely to artificial intelligence. February’s cyberattack on the University of Mississippi Medical Center demonstrated the dam
  
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• Audio: Sunstar Insurance Coaches Show – October 14, 2026

  14-10-2026 09:30 via BreezyNews.com – Kosciusko News 24/7
  
  This week: On this episode of the Sunstar Insurance Coaches Show, Holmes Head Coach Marcus Wood joins recaps the game against Northwest, spotlights Player of the Game Tristan Colenburg, and previews the game against East MS.The post Audio: Sunstar Insurance Coaches Show – October 14, 2026 appeared first on BreezyNews.com - Kosciusko News 24/7.
  
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• DUI, Trespassing, and Disorderly Conduct in Carthage and Leake County Arrests

  14-10-2026 07:00 via BreezyNews.com – Kosciusko News 24/7
  
  SHAWUNACY BOONE, 28, of Carthage, No Tag, Contempt of Court – Carthage Municipal Court, CPD.  Bond $319, $0.
   TRAVORIS N CONNER, 30, of Canton, No Driver’s License, LCSO.  Bond $500.
   KENDRICK T DAVIS, 34, of Philadelphia, Bond Surrender – Leake County Circuit Court, Bench Warrant – Leake County Circuit Court, LCSO.  Bond $3,000, N/A.
   MICHAEL D GAMMILL, 50, of Carthage, Disorderly Conduct – Interfering with a Business, CPD.  Bond
  
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• As Gas Prices Fall, Local Averages Remain High

  14-10-2026 06:47 via BreezyNews.com – Kosciusko News 24/7
  
  After reaching its highest level since May two and a half weeks ago, the average price of gas in Mississippi has dropped about nine cents.  AAA says the statewide average this morning is $3.92.  And remember when Leake County had some of the lowest gas prices in Mississippi?  Those days are gone.  The auto club says more than 30 counties now have a lower average price than Leake, which is even higher than the statewide average now, at $3.95.  But that’s tied with N
  
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• NWS Posts “Elevated” Wildfire Risk

  14-10-2026 06:43 via BreezyNews.com – Kosciusko News 24/7
  
  It’s gotten so dry in this area that it won’t take much wind to spread any wildfires that break out.  The National Weather Service has posted an “elevated” risk of wildfires through Saturday as a result of extremely dry vegetation and low humidity.  It says, even though winds should stay below 10 miles an hour today and tomorrow, any sort of sparks could ignite fallen leaves and drought-stressed grass and touch off a big fire.  And conditions will only get
  
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• State of the City: Mayor John Horhn says Jackson is turning a corner

  14-10-2026 01:02 via Mississippi Today
  
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  About a year after Jackson Mayor John Horhn began declaring that “Jackson is rising,” he unveiled a new catchphrase Tuesday at his State of the City address.“Comebacks don’t get announced,” he told a jubilant audience at the Jackson Conventi
  
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• ‘Jackson is rolling’: Mayor John Horhn touts promises delivered in ‘State of the City’

  14-10-2026 01:02 via Mississippi Today
  
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  About a year after Jackson Mayor John Horhn began touting that “Jackson is rising,” he unveiled a new catchphrase Tuesday at his State of the City address.“Comebacks don’t get announced,” he told a jubilant audience at the Jackson Convention
  
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• ‘Jackson is rising’: Mayor John Horhn touts promises delivered in ‘State of the City’

  14-10-2026 01:02 via Mississippi Today
  
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  About a year after Jackson Mayor John Horhn began declaring that “Jackson is rising,” he unveiled a new catchphrase Tuesday at his State of the City address.“Comebacks don’t get announced,” he told a jubilant audience at the Jackson Conventi
  
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