Mississippi news

• SPLC president during Jackson visit says organization is ready to fight DOJ prosecution

  19-10-2026 23:17 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  Southern Poverty Law Center President Ryan Haygood told Mississippi Today on Monday that his organization is prepared to fight the Trump Justice Department’s indictments in a trial set for April.Haygood was in Jackson for the start of the organization’s &ldqu
  
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• Mississippi attorney general clears Senatobia police officer who shot, killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley

  19-10-2026 19:50 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  Joseph Cranney is a reporter with the Deep South Today Investigative Reporting Center in collaboration with The New York Times. Mukta Joshi is an investigative reporter at Mississippi Today. She is spending a year as a New York Times Local Investigations fellow examining
  
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• Attorney General clears Senatobia police officer who shot, killed Kohen Wiley

  19-10-2026 19:50 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  Joseph Cranney is a reporter with the Deep South Today Investigative Reporting Center in collaboration with The New York Times. Mukta Joshi is an investigative reporter at Mississippi Today. She is spending a year as a New York Times Local Investigations fellow examining
  
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• Attorney General clears Senatobia police officer who shot, killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley

  19-10-2026 19:50 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  Joseph Cranney is a reporter with the Deep South Today Investigative Reporting Center in collaboration with The New York Times. Mukta Joshi is an investigative reporter at Mississippi Today. She is spending a year as a New York Times Local Investigations fellow examining
  
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• Kicks Picks Week 8 Winner is… Connor Bell of Carthage!

  19-10-2026 19:01 via breezynews.com
  
  Week 8 of Kicks Picks was a close one! It was a tight race til the very end, but there can be only one winner.. This week’s champion is Conor Bell of Carthage!
  Congratulations Conor, you are the winner of our weekly Friday Night Food Spot Prize, a $15 gift card to Sonic!
  You, too, could be a winner. Just be sure to submit your picks by 6:00 p.m. on Friday to be eligible!
  Week 9 picks can be found here.
  Remember to play each week for a chance to win the season prize, a Turtlebox Grande Blue
  
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• DOJ reaches settlement with Lexington Police Department over civil rights violations

  19-10-2026 17:59 via mississippitoday.org
  
  The U.S. Department of Justice has announced it reached a settlement forcing reforms in a Mississippi city and its police department, which the DOJ found discriminated against Black people, used excessive force and retaliated against critics.The settlement announced Friday comes after a scathing 2024 DOJ report said the Lexington Police Department routinely violated citizens’ civil rights in the rural, poor, majority-Black city located about 65 miles north of the state’s capital. Po
  
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• Audio: Katherine Ellard talks 2026 Holmes CC Homecoming

  19-10-2026 16:50 via breezynews.com
  
  Holmes Community College Coordinator of Alumni Affairs speaks with The BreckFast Show’s Breck Riley to discuss all the Homecoming activities planned on the Goodman Campus for Thursday, Oct. 22
  Highlights include:Morning Events: Visual Art Show, Baseball/Softball highlights, and the Career & Transfer Fair at McDaniel Hall.
  Workforce & Tech Expo: Touch-a-Truck displays featuring the lineman truck, welding trailer, and emergency vehicles.
  Alumni Honorees: Recognizing Alumni of the Yea
  
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• Community Send-Off Planned for Saturday as Kosciusko Big Red Band heads to State Competition

  19-10-2026 16:28 via breezynews.com
  
  The Kosciusko Big Red Band will compete in the State Championship competition this Saturday, Oct. 24, at Pearl High School with their show, “In the End.”
  A community send-off is scheduled for Saturday morning at Kosciusko High School. Supporters are asked to gather along both sides of the KHS driveway at 11:20 AM as the band departs. Attendees are welcome to bring signs, posters, and noisemakers.
  The championship performance will take place at Pearl High School at 3:30 PM. Spectators
  
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• Shooting into an Occupied Dwelling, Many Felony Drug Arrests, and Domestic Violence in Kosciusko and Attala County Arrests

  19-10-2026 16:07 via breezynews.com
  
  GARRETT ALSTON, 28, of Kosciusko, Domestic Violence – Simple Assault, KPD.  Bond $1,130.
   DEMARRIUS J CARR, 22, of Kosciusko, Shooting into an Occupied Dwelling, Possession of Firearm by Convicted Felon, KPD.  Bond $100,000, $50,000.
   KENDRICK R CARTER, 43, of Kosciusko, Shoplifting – 2nd, KPD.  Bond $2,300.
   SKUYLER J ELLINGTON, 18, of Kosciusko, Shooting into an Occupied Dwelling, KPD.  Bond $100,000.
   JESSICA L GOOLSBY, 39, of Morton, Felony
  
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• Bill Clinton and others pay tribute to women ‘Warriors of the Civil Rights Movement’

  19-10-2026 15:59 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  SAN FRANCISCO – These eight women and their families fought in a war known as America’s Civil Rights Movement. Over the weekend, they gathered, perhaps for the last time, as former President Bill Clinton and others cheered their courage and their grace.&ldquo
  
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• Mississippi tops US for Medicaid enrollees prescribed birth control some say is linked to brain tumors

  19-10-2026 13:00 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  Marlena Jenkins is a public high school teacher who loves helping kids ask the right questions. Jenkins, 47, knows what happens when kids don’t learn that skill. At 18, Jenkins had a baby after graduating high school in Hattiesburg in 1997 with no sex educatio
  
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• Long Creek Elementary announces first 9-Weeks honor roll students

  19-10-2026 10:46 via breezynews.com
  
  Long Creek Elementary school has announced honor roll students for the first nine weeks of the school year.
  School Honor Roll Announcement★ Superintendent’s Honor List
  First Grade: Faith Moore, Kayson Price, Aleah Scott
  Second Grade: Emily Mayers, Journee Miller, Austin Rayford
  Third Grade: Kyden Riley, Malachi Teague
  Fourth Grade: Lily Mayers
  Fifth Grade: Mickayla Roby
  Sixth Grade: Jamarris Barnes, Morgan Harmon, Mariyah Wash★ Principal’s Honor List
  First Grade: John All
  
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• Wildfire Danger Continues This Week

  19-10-2026 07:08 via breezynews.com
  
  Conditions will again be favorable for wildfires across Mississippi this week.   The National Weather Service says the fire danger threat is the result of low humidity and dry vegetation, with light winds forecast over the next several days.
  Burn bans remain in effect for 34 counties in Mississippi including Attala, Leake, Holmes, Winston, Carroll and Montgomery.
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