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• A Stolen Firearm and Child Endangerment Arrests in Attala and Leake

  12-05-2024 01:22 via breezynews.com
  
  KACY J BELL, 24, of Philadelphia, Resisting Arrest, Disorderly Conduct – Failure to Comply with LEO, LCSO.  Bond $500, $500.   CODY R BURNS, 28, of Kosciusko, Possession of Paraphernalia, Contempt of Court – Kosciusko Municipal Court, KPD.  Bond $1,400, $0.   MARCIE EDWARDS, 37, […]
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• Voting open for the Mississippi Songwriter of the Year People’s Choice Award

  05-06-2024 17:02 via breezynews.com
  
  Voting is now open for the 2024 Mississippi Songwriter of the Year Woodstock Furniture People’s Choice Award. Visit mssongwriteroftheyear.com to listen to snippets of each contestants song, and CLICK HERE to vote for your favorite. Choose which song and artist you like best and then […]
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• Podcast: The NCAA Regional wrap-up.

  05-06-2024 17:00 via mississippitoday.org
  
  NCAA Super Regionals are this weekend, but Mississippi will not be represented for the first time in a while. Both Mississippi State and Southern Miss lost out in the finals of their prospective regionals. The Clevelands discuss all that, plus venerable Coastal Carolina coach Gary Gilmore’s parting words to college baseball.Stream all episodes here.
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• Minute with the Mayor – June 5, 2024

  05-06-2024 15:41 via breezynews.com
  
  This week on Minute with the Mayor: Kosciusko Mayor Tim Kyle recaps Tuesday night’s meeting of the Kosciusko Board of Aldermen.
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• Does Mississippi have any campaign finance rules? Legislative inaction, AG’s statements leave doubt

  05-06-2024 15:32 via mississippitoday.org
  
  An attempt to reform Mississippi’s lax, antiquated and jacked-up campaign finance laws went over like a lead balloon with lawmakers in this year’s legislative session, with Republicans and Democrats alike gutting and deriding the reform bill before killing it.So, that leaves the Magnolia State where it was, right? Weak laws. Little transparency for voters or enforcement for wrongdoers. Our government susceptible to the corrosive influence of secretive big-money special interests.No.
  
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• Audio: Department of Public Safety Commissioner Sean Tindell on The BreckFast Show

  05-06-2024 13:54 via breezynews.com
  
   Sean Tindell, Commissioner of the Mississippi Deparment of Public Safety, called into The BreckFast Show Wednesday morning to discuss the redesigned Mississippi Driver’s License.
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• Damage Reported Locally After Severe Storm

  05-06-2024 13:22 via breezynews.com
  
  Our latest round of stormy weather has resulted in some damage in this part of central Mississippi.   In Attala County, trees were blown down on Highway 12 West in Kosciusko, on County Road 5131 and on Highway 429 in Sallis.  In Leake County, several trees […]
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• Possession of a Stolen Firearm, Domestic Violence, Child Endangerment, and Aggravated Assault in Leake and Attala

  04-06-2024 23:47 via breezynews.com
  
  ANDREW L ANDERSON, 55, of Kosciusko, Domestic Violence – Simple Assault, ACSO.  Bond $1,000.   JONA BLAKE, 28, of Carthage, Simple Assault – Attempt by Physical Menace to Create Fear, LCSO.  Bond $500.   PATRICK S CHRISTY, 57, of Kilmichael, Felony Possession of a Controlled […]
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• Aggravated Assault, DUI, and Shoplifting Arrests in Attala and Leake

  04-06-2024 23:17 via breezynews.com
  
  CARSON R ALLEN, 29, of Kosciusko, Hold for Another State, KPD.  Bond N/A.   JAMES D BLACKWELL, 36, of Philadelphia, MDOC Warrant, LCSO.  Bond N/A.   JOSEA A BROWN, 31, of Lena, Bench Warrant – Leake County Justice Court, LCSO.  Bond N/A.   DEWAYNE COTTON, […]
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• Search Warrant Leads to Arrest in Ethel

  04-06-2024 22:43 via breezynews.com
  
  In a joint operation conducted by the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics, US Marshals, and the Attala County Sheriff’s Office, a search warrant was executed on Hannah Street in Ethel on the morning of June 4, 2024. The targeted raid led to the arrest of Michael […]
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• Marshall Ramsey: The Maze

  04-06-2024 22:33 via mississippitoday.org
  
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• Main Severe Weather Threat Shifts South, Isolated Storms Still Possible Locally

  04-06-2024 21:33 via breezynews.com
  
  Forecasters now believe the best chance of severe weather in Mississippi today will be south of I-20.   Most of that area is under a Level-2 “slight” risk of damaging wind gusts and hail through late tonight.   There’s a Level-1 “marginal” risk for all of the […]
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• We are watching college baseball change — and not for the better

  04-06-2024 19:20 via mississippitoday.org
  
  Few observers, if any, would argue that of all the so-called major college sports, baseball has remained the least affected by money and greed. It has remained closest to the college ideal, meaning the least professional in nature. College baseball has had the most level playing field.Baseball is the one sport in which small market teams such as Mississippi State and Ole Miss could win back-to-back national championships. It is the one sport in which a so-called mid-major school like Coastal Ca
  
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• Stand up Comedy and Live Music at The Guitar Academy

  04-06-2024 18:55 via breezynews.com
  
  Comedian Breck Frazure is set to take the stage at The Guitar Academy in Kosciusko on Saturday, June 15th. There will be live music by Drew Townsend and Robert Pickle. Doors will open at 7 PM for the event. Tickets are available for purchase online […]
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• MS Department of Public Safety announces new design for driver’s license

  04-06-2024 14:58 via breezynews.com
  
  JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Public Safety Driver Service Bureau has announced a new Mississippi driver’s license design. This new design showcases various iconic elements of Mississippi, including the new state flag, a guitar, the state outline, and music notes. “This new design […]
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• Happening today: Scarborough Building Supply 75th anniversary celebration

  04-06-2024 14:58 via breezynews.com
  
  Scarborough Building Supply in Kosciusko is celebrating its 75 anniversary today. SBS was founded in 1949 by James WINFIELD SCARBOROUGH. He was known as (WINNIE) SCARBOROUGH. Mr. Scarborough lived in Singleton, MS and operated a sawmill and General Store. He made the decision to open […]
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• More Storms Possible Locally Today

  04-06-2024 13:11 via breezynews.com
  
  More bad weather is in the forecast across central Mississippi today after severe storms rolled through the area last night, knocking down trees and damaging a hotel in Jackson.  While most of the strongest storms were near and south of I-20, Holmes County was under […]
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• MS Department of Public Safety announces news design for driver’s license

  04-06-2024 12:05 via breezynews.com
  
  JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Public Safety Driver Service Bureau has announced a new Mississippi driver’s license design. This new design showcases various iconic elements of Mississippi, including the new state flag, a guitar, the state outline, and music notes. “This new design […]
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• Lawsuit claiming Mississippi Supreme Court districts are discriminatory is set for August

  04-06-2024 11:30 via mississippitoday.org
  
  A federal trial challenging the constitutionality of Mississippi‘s Supreme Court districts is scheduled to begin Aug. 5 in Oxford.The lawsuit, filed in April 2022, alleges that the three districts from which the state’s nine Supreme Court justices are elected dilute Black voter strength. The lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Mississippi, the Southern Poverty Law Center and private law firms on behalf of a group of Black Mississippians including sta
  
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• Lawsuit claiming Mississippi Supreme Court district are discriminatory is set for August

  04-06-2024 11:30 via mississippitoday.org
  
  A federal trial challenging the constitutionality of Mississippi‘s Supreme Court districts is scheduled to begin Aug. 5 in Oxford.The lawsuit, filed in April 2022, alleges that the three districts from which the state’s nine Supreme Court justices are elected dilute Black voter strength. The lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Mississippi, the Southern Poverty Law Center and private law firms on behalf of a group of Black Mississippians including sta
  
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• Speaker Jason White names members of committee to explore state tax cuts 

  03-06-2024 21:06 via mississippitoday.org
  
  House Speaker Jason White on Friday announced that 18 House members will explore ways to reduce the state’s grocery and personal income taxes ahead of the 2025 legislative session, making tax policy a top priority.White, a Republican from West, said in a statement that he feels confident the appointees will thoroughly study current state laws and tax structures to make informed recommendations for next year’s session. “The House will continue its pursuit of bold initiative
  
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• Culpepper Funeral Home Welcomes Funeral Director

  03-06-2024 18:17 via breezynews.com
  
  Culpepper Funeral Home welcomes Jackson Gilmore as a full time Funeral Director and Embalmer.  Jackson is a lifelong resident of Kosciusko and member of First Baptist Kosciusko.  He is a graduate of Kosciusko High School, obtained an associate’s degree in Mortuary Science from East Mississippi […]
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• Kosciusko native playing in the Arena Football League

  03-06-2024 16:07 via breezynews.com
  
  “Aakiel Greer….he’ll make a grab on the near sideline and he’ll spin into the endzone for a touchdown.” That was the call from legendary play-by-play broadcaster Eli Gold Saturday, May 18 as Greer scored his first professional football touchdown as a member of the Arena […]
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• Behind the reporting: Latest on the Rankin County “Goon Squad”

  03-06-2024 13:30 via mississippitoday.org
  
  Investigative journalists Brian Howey and Nate Rosenfield join Adam Ganucheau to discuss their latest report on the Rankin County Sheriff Department’s “Goon Squad.” The reporters discuss shocking new internal police communications they obtained and published, and they discuss the importance of the ongoing reporting.
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• Severe Weather Possible in Local Area

  03-06-2024 13:16 via breezynews.com
  
  Summer is less than three weeks away, but our spring storm season continues to hold on as this part of central Mississippi faces the threat of severe weather today.  There’s a Level-2 “slight” risk of damaging winds and hail for the western part of the […]
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• Fatal Wreck in Holmes County

  03-06-2024 13:16 via breezynews.com
  
  A Georgia man was killed Sunday when his motorcycle collided with a pickup on Highway 12 in Holmes County.  The Highway Patrol says Henry Hooker, 44, was eastbound and the truck driven by a Tchula man was westbound when the accident happened around 3 pm.  […]
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• Is Mississippi’s parole system broken?

  03-06-2024 13:00 via mississippitoday.org
  
  This is the first of a year-long look at Mississippi’s parole system.At 17, James Williams III shot and killed his father and stepmother in south Jackson, stuffed their bodies into plastic containers and dumped them in the woods in a different county. In 2023 after he’d served nearly 20 years of a life sentence, Mississippi’s Parole Board freed him, two years after the previous board denied his request. He was 38 years old.The decision came as a shock to family members of
  
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• Marshall Ramsey: Egg Bowl

  02-06-2024 16:45 via mississippitoday.org
  
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• Man Arrested After Kicking In Neighbor’s Door

  02-06-2024 15:21 via breezynews.com
  
  KOSCIUSKO, Miss.–A man was arrested after kicking in a neighbor’s door at the Court Square Village Apartments on Monroe St. Saturday night in Kosciusko. The initial call was at 7:17, for a white male trying to kick in a door. Both Kosciusko Police and Attala […]
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• Disturbance at Glendale Apartments Escalates

  02-06-2024 15:21 via breezynews.com
  
  KOSCIUSKO, Miss.–A situation at Glendale Apartments escalated Saturday night and several police officers and Attala County deputies had to respond. It began as a disturbance call in the Glendale parking lot about 6:45 p.m. The caller reported a person in a red Dodge Charger was […]
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