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• Southern Miss plans $25 million renovation and expansion of 42-year-old Pete Taylor baseball park

  27-10-2026 23:14 via Mississippi Today
  
  HATTIESBURG — Southern Miss on Tuesday announced a plan to renovate the 42-year-old home of its nationally renowned baseball program, the only Division I program in the U.S. to boast 10 straight 40-victory seasons and 10 straight NCAA Tournament bids.The school plans to raise approximately $25 million through private and corporate funding to complete a renovation and expansion of Pete Taylor Park/Hill Denson Field.“Pete Taylor Park represents so much of what makes Southern Miss baseball spe
  
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• Watch: How the fatal Senatobia shooting unfolded in 25 seconds

  27-10-2026 23:03 via Mississippi Today
  
  Julie Lee is a data reporter at Mississippi Today. Sarah Whites-Koditschek and Mukta Joshi are investigative reporters at Mississippi Today spending a year as New York Times Local Investigations fellows. They report for the Deep South Today Investigative Reporting Center in collaboration with The New York Times.Reporters for Mississippi Today closely examined video footage and broke down key moments of the police confrontation that ended with the fatal shooting of 1-year-old Kohen Wiley in a Wa
  
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• Mississippi joins lawsuit claiming Dollar General overcharged customers

  27-10-2026 21:57 via Mississippi Today
  
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  Mississippi, the Federal Trade Commission and 19 other states have sued Dollar General alleging the company repeatedly overcharged customers across the country.The lawsuit claims that the prices customers see on items on shelves and in advertisements are not what gets ru
  
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• Mississippi State expands housing for upperclassmen

  27-10-2026 20:59 via Mississippi Today
  
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  Upperclassmen at Mississippi State University will have more on-campus housing options after state higher education officials approved a $63.9 million dormitory expansion that would add 527 beds in two years.  The expansion would increase the College View housing capac
  
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• ‘Stop asking Jewish voters to sacrifice our values’ in midterm election, leaders urge

  27-10-2026 19:20 via Mississippi Today
  
  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.   During a recent appearance before the Michigan Democratic Jewish Caucus, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel offered a midterm election roadmap for Jewish voters. “We have a moral imperative to place the needs o
  
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• Asthma mortality rates in Jackson reach highest level in three years

  27-10-2026 18:00 via Mississippi Today
  
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  Jackson is among the most challenging cities in the United States if you’re living with asthma and has some of the highest rates of asthma-related deaths, says a 2026 report from the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America.Among the 100 largest metropolitan areas in t
  
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• Over 56,000 absentee ballots cast so far in Mississippi midterm election

  27-10-2026 15:00 via Mississippi Today
  
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  Mississippi voters have returned more than twice as many absentee ballots as they had done at this point in the 2022 midterms.But there was no Senate race on the ballot in 2022, and the numbers remain below the last presidential race.As of Monday, circuit clerks’ offic
  
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• Ethel, McAdams face high-stakes playoff race in regular season finales

  27-10-2026 13:22 via BreezyNews.com – Kosciusko News 24/7
  
  High school football fans in Attala County are in for a wild finish this week, as both the Ethel Tigers and McAdams Bulldogs head into their regular-season finales with playoff berths on the line.
  Region 5-1A is wide open, with seeding possibilities for local teams ranging from a division title down to complex tiebreakers.
  For the Ethel Tigers, victory Thursday night against Sebastopol is the simplest path to glory. A win over Sebastopol coupled with a Nanih Waiya win over McAdams seals the Regi
  
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• Rural communities push back on school consolidation efforts: ‘They’re just looking at numbers on the paper’

  27-10-2026 12:02 via Mississippi Today
  
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  Mississippi has lost thousands of public school students over the past decade, leaving fewer children enrolled in the state’s 138 school districts and less money to go around. State leaders think they’ve found a solution: School consolidation. House Speaker Jason W
  
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• 8 key questions about school district (and college) consolidation in Mississippi

  27-10-2026 12:01 via Mississippi Today
  
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  School consolidation, a perennial topic in Mississippi, is poised to be a top education policy debate during the 2027 legislative session.Mississippi has 138 school districts, 15 community colleges and eight public universities. State leaders want to shrink those numbers
  
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• Trump rallies for Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi: ‘You like me’

  27-10-2026 03:52 via Mississippi Today
  
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  CORINTH – President Donald Trump rallied for Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith in Mississippi on Monday, urging his supporters not to take chances by staying home and allowing a potential midterm upset in a state he won handily.As Trump’s approval ratings have cratere
  
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