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• Attala County School District Announces Summer Registration Dates

  10-07-2026 07:00 via breezynews.com
  
  The Attala County School District has announced registration dates and requirements for the upcoming 2026-2027 school year.
  All student registration will be completed online, but parents and guardians must still visit their child’s school during the designated registration period to complete the process and receive class schedules.
  Summer registration will be held:
  July 15, July 20 & July 218 a.m. – 3 p.m.
  July 16Noon – 6 p.m.
  District officials say there will be no registr
  
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• Neighbors in need spur Stone County pair into flood rescues

  11-07-2026 15:00 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  PERKINSTON — The calls kept coming as floodwaters spread across Stone County. Tim Davenport and Michael Graham had never responded to a natural disaster before, but they had something many stranded residents needed: a boat. According to the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency, the remnants of Tropical Storm Arthur caused widespread flooding across South Mississippi June 18, damaging homes, busi
  
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• DUIs and Drug Possession in Philadelphia and Neshoba County

  11-07-2026 14:00 via breezynews.com
  
  CHARLES MURPHY BOLDEN, 47, of DeKalb, Serving Sentence, NCSO.  Bond $0.
   GARIAN DIXON, 33, of Philadelphia, Failure to Appear, NCSO.  Bond $0.
   BRANDI GAIL FRAZIER, 27, of Philadelphia, No Driver’s License, No Insurance, Contempt of Court, MHP.  Bond $300, $800, $0.
   QUENTARIUS HARDEN, 28, of Jackson, Possession of Marijuana, PPD.  Bond $1,500.
   DESTIN LASHAWN KNIGHT, 34, of Tuscaloosa, AL, Serving Sentence, NCSO.  Bond $0.
   RAYMOND MCMILLA
  
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• Level-1 Storm Risk Posted for This Area Tonight and Sunday

  11-07-2026 07:44 via breezynews.com
  
  Storms could be moving into this part of central Mississippi tonight and developing again on Sunday.  There’s a Level-1 “marginal” risk of isolated severe storms with damaging wind gusts.  The National Weather Service says heavy downpours and frequent lightning will also be possible.  Rain chances will continue next week at least through Wednesday.
  With the storms not expected to arrive until the evening hours today, temperatures will climb into the mid 90s resul
  
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• Jackson bus drivers threaten to walk off the job Monday as talks continue into the weekend

  11-07-2026 00:50 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  The union representing dozens of Jackson bus drivers and other transportation workers issued a 72-hour strike notice Friday, even as the union said it would continue trying to reach an agreement with MV Transportation, the Texas company under contract to run JTRAN.If both sides cannot reach an agreement by Sunday, the union plans to go on strike at 4 a.m. on Monday, according to a statement released Friday by the
  
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• Senatobia police finally released internal reports of the shooting that killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley. They reveal almost nothing

  11-07-2026 00:26 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 immigration and criminal justice issues. Nearly a month after police in Mississippi shot and killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley outside Walmart i
  
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• Legislators expect special session on youth court reform as deal nears

  10-07-2026 22:30 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  Legislative leaders are close to finalizing a deal on reforming Mississippi’s youth court system and expect Gov. Tate Reeves to call them into a special legislative session soon, according to multiple lawmakers and negotiators involved in the discussions. It’s unclear how wide-ranging the reforms to the court would be and when exactly the special session would take place, though several legislator
  
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• Governor appoints assistant DA Brad McCullouch  to temporarily lead Hinds County DA’s office

  10-07-2026 21:40 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  Gov. Tate Reeves on Friday appointed an interim steward to lead the Hinds County District Attorney’s office until a Nov. 3 special election can fill the vacancy left by the resignation of District Attorney Jody Owens, who pleaded guilty last week to federal conspiracy charges.Brad McCullouch, a Madison County resident, has worked as an assistant district attorney in Hinds County since 2023. Owens pleaded gui
  
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• What happened to Nolan Xavier Wells?

  10-07-2026 20:42 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  Miles from the Mississippi Gulf Coast on a remote island whose beauty of clear beaches and white sand dunes was immortalized by famed American artist Walter Inglis Anderson, Nolan Xavier Wells’ young life came to an end. How and why are among the many unanswered questions that remain after the 18-year-old from Ocean Springs was last seen on the Fourth of July and his body found two days later off Horn I
  
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• Voter voices: ‘It’s so discouraging to see the whole thing all over again’

  10-07-2026 20:00 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  “Voter Voices” is a series of people sharing their thoughts on voting rights, the state’s history of voter suppression and the new gerrymandering push embroiling Mississippi, the South and the nation after the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in a Louisiana case gutted the federal Voting Rights Act’s requirements for majority Black districts.One of the first things Ed Godfrey was taught w
  
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• New ruling on Mississippi Supreme Court redistricting not likely for several months

  10-07-2026 19:05 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  It will be at least several months before a federal judge, for the second time, decides whether Mississippi’s three state Supreme Court districts violate the Voting Rights Act and deprive Black voters.After the U.S. Supreme Court, in its Louisiana v. Callais decision, rolled back protections for racial discrimination in redistricting, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a decision from U.S. Distri
  
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• Twenty years later, Thad Cochran’s vision of Delta Health Alliance still impactful, CEO says

  10-07-2026 18:31 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  Mississippi Today Ideas is a platform for thoughtful Mississippians to share their ideas 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.For many Mississippians, the late Sen. Thad Cochran’s legacy is measured in roads, buildings, research cente
  
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• High blood pressure is climbing in young adults. In Mississippi, young women face the rising stakes

  10-07-2026 16:53 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  For months, Katie Shappley was in denial about her symptoms. Despite difficulty breathing and odd tingles in her left arm, the daughter of a “hard-headed farmer man” didn’t go see a doctor until her headaches were bad enough to call off of work. When she finally went in, Shappley, who works in physician credentialing at the Baptist Memorial Hospital in Columbus, remembers the nurse practitio
  
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• Breezy 103.7 Celebrates One year on air

  10-07-2026 15:01 via breezynews.com
  
  Breezy 103.7 (WLIN-FM), Boswell Media’s adult contemporary station serving Kosciusko, Attala County, and central Mississippi, is celebrating its first anniversary on the 103.7 FM frequency this weekend.
  The milestone marks one year since Breezy officially transitioned from 101.1 FM to 103.7 FM on July 11, 2025, a move designed to strengthen the station’s signal and significantly expand its broadcast reach across central Mississippi.
  The frequency change was necessary after it was det
  
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• Aggravated Assault, DUIs, and Disorderly Conduct in Carthage and Leake County Arrests

  10-07-2026 14:00 via breezynews.com
  
  DAMIEN ANDERSON, 34, of Walnut Grove, Disorderly Conduct – Disturbing the Peace, Disorderly Conduct – Failure to Comply with LEO, LCSO.  Bond $0, $500.
   MICHAEL J DAVIS, 51, of Forest, Felony Possession of a Controlled Substance, No Driver’s License, No Insurance, CPD.  Bond N/A, $438, $438.
   BRYANNA L FRESHOUR, 25, of Walnut Grove, Disorderly Conduct – Disturbance in a Public Place, LCSO.  Bond $0.
   JERIAN D MACK, 26, of Carthage, Aggravated
  
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• Carroll County Secures $310,000 in FEMA Disaster Recovery Funds

  10-07-2026 12:13 via breezynews.com
  
  Local storm recovery efforts are getting a major financial boost. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has approved $310,000 for Carroll County to help cover the costs of emergency protective measures taken during recent disasters.
  The funding is part of a larger, state-wide rollout announced by FEMA this week, which includes more than $9 million distributed across 14 recovery projects in Mississippi. Much of the state’s funding is tied to response efforts from the severe winter
  
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• Diamond Youth State Tournament details (bracket, times, etc)

  10-07-2026 09:49 via breezynews.com
  
  Tournament Information
  AAA (10U) State Tournament – BRACKET Dates: July 10–13
  Teams: Corinth, Columbia, East Central, Ellisville, Franklin County, Hattiesburg, Iuka, Kosciusko, Lincoln County, Long Beach, Philadelphia, St. Martin, Vancleave, Wayne County and West Lauderdale.
  Kosciusko’s first game: Friday, July 10, 8:00 p.m. vs. St. Martin (Field E)
  State champion advances to: Diamond Youth 10U World Series in Laurel12U Ozone State Tournament – BRACKET Dates: Ju
  
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• Teen stomped to death in Hinds County jail, coroner says

  10-07-2026 00:48 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  An 18-year-old killed in the Hinds County Detention Center in Raymond last week was stomped to death, the coroner said Thursday. “It appeared he had shoe prints all over his head,” Hinds County Coroner Jeremiah Howard told Mississippi Today. The teen, Mielun Butler, was booked in jail on July 1 after he was arrested in connection to a killing at a south Jackson apartment complex. By the morni
  
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• Addilyn Stephens, 10-year-old Princess of Patrick Farms, wins huge golf tournament in Paris

  09-07-2026 23:24 via mississippitoday.org
  
  PEARL – Meet Addilyn Stephens. She’s 10 years young, cute as the proverbial button, weighs all of 65 pounds and unless you are really good at golf – I mean really, really good – she will beat your brains out.Listen to how Addilyn celebrated the Fourth of July weekend: She went to France with her parents, Randy and Melissa Stephens, and won the Paris Junior Golf Invitational against an international field, shooting 4-under-par for 27 holes. Competing in the 9-10 age divis
  
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• State revenue up. Heat can hurt the economy. Rocket explodes in test: Mississippi Marketplace

  09-07-2026 22:00 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  Total revenue collected by the state increased by around $87.59 million, or 1%, for FY 2026. The state fiscal year begins July 1 and ends June 30 of the following calendar year. Sales tax collections, the largest source of state revenue, were down by $11.91 million or 0.42% year over year. The Individual income tax, which is slowly being phased out, was the second-largest contributor to state revenue, bringin
  
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• Jackson/Hinds Library System is overrun with repair needs

  09-07-2026 21:04 via mississippitoday.org
  
  Amber Safford had just gotten off the bus to enter the Medgar Evers Library in northwest Jackson when she was forced to leave. The library, part of the Jackson/Hinds Library System, closed early that day due to problems with its air conditioning system.       “I was aggravated,” she said.Safford, 35, is unhoused and stays at a women’s shelter. During the day, she uses the library’s computers to check her email and apply for jobs. The li
  
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• Kosciusko awarded grant to install generators at City Hall and lagoon

  09-07-2026 15:21 via breezynews.com
  
  The City of Kosciusko is moving forward with the installation of two emergency backup generators after receiving approval for a FEMA-funded grant.
  Mayor Tim Kyle said the city originally applied for the grant approximately two years ago through the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA).
  One generator will be installed at City Hall, while the second will be located at the city’s wastewater lagoon.
  Kyle said the lagoon generator will be mounted on a trailer, allowing city crews to m
  
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• Voter voices: ‘We’re well past that.’ State’s troubled past shouldn’t be issue in redistricting

  09-07-2026 13:00 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  “Voter Voices” is a series of Mississippians sharing their thoughts on voting rights, the state’s history of voter suppression and the new gerrymandering push embroiling Mississippi, the South and the nation after the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in a Louisiana case gutted the federal Voting Rights Act’s requirements for majority Black districts.When Michael Baker was in first grade,
  
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• Attala County Chancery Clerk’s Office Sends Reminder on Delinquent Property Taxes

  09-07-2026 12:58 via breezynews.com
  
  The Attala County Chancery Clerk’s Office is reminding property owners with delinquent taxes to take action as soon as possible to avoid additional fees and the potential loss of property.
  The office announced Thursday, July 9, that courtesy cards have been mailed to property owners regarding unpaid delinquent taxes. The notices are being sent to advise property owners that taxes listed as delinquent should be paid as soon as possible to remove the risk of losing property due to non-paymen
  
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• 50 Days Until Whippets Football Returns to Breezy 103

  09-07-2026 11:30 via breezynews.com
  
  Kosciusko Whippets Football on Breezy 103The countdown continues!
  Today marks 50 days until Kosciusko Whippets football returns to Breezy 103.
  From kickoff to the final whistle, we’ll be bringing you all the action this season with live game coverage, updates, and more.
  For everything Whippets football, visit our official Kosciusko football broadcast page,your home for weekly game times, broadcast details, coaches show links, schedule updates, and everything you need to follow the season.
  
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• Felony Malicious Mischief, DUIs, and Felony Motor Vehicle Theft Arrests in Philadelphia and Neshoba County

  09-07-2026 11:00 via breezynews.com
  
  BRADEN CLEMONS, 15, of Philadelphia, Felony Motor Vehicle Theft, Felony Motor Vehicle Theft, PPD.  Bond $45,000, $15,000.
   ALISHA G DUNN, 44, of Carthage, DUI – Test Refusal, PPD.  Bond $1,500.
   LEANNA FRAZIER, 32, of Philadelphia, Felony Malicious Mischief, NCSO.  Bond $0.
   MARCUS L JIMMIE, 24, of Choctaw, Contempt of Court, DUI – 1st, No Driver’s License, No Proof of Insurance, Possession of Marijuana, Disorderly Conduct – Failure to Comply
  
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• Gas Prices Rising Again in MS

  09-07-2026 07:34 via breezynews.com
  
  After dropping for 46 days in a row, the average price for gas in Mississippi has risen for the last three days.  It’s the result of oil prices going up after President Trump indicated that a permanent peace deal with Iran may not happen.
  AAA says Mississippi’s average price for gas is up three cents since Tuesday.  The auto club says countywide averages range from $3.26 in Leake to $3.46 in Attala, $3.47 in Holmes and Choctaw, $3.48 in Neshoba, $3.52 in Winston, $3.57 in C
  
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• Increasing Heat Stress Forecast But Cooler By Sunday

  09-07-2026 07:27 via breezynews.com
  
  Much of the local area may avoid the worst of the hot and humid weather as we head toward the weekend.  Afternoon highs will be in the 90s through Saturday but the heat index should stay below 105 across Attala, Leake, Neshoba and Winston counties.  The National Weather Service says a front will bring increased rain chances starting tomorrow.  And by Sunday, our high temperatures may not make it out of the upper 80s.
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• 2026-2027 School Supply List: Kosciusko Upper Elementary

  09-07-2026 07:00 via breezynews.com
  
  The Kosciusko School District has released the school supply list for the 2026-2027 school year.Below is the list for Upper Elementary.
  4th–5th GradePencils (Ticonderoga Preferred)
  Cap Erasers
  Kleenex
  Lysol Wipes
  Water Bottle (Labeled with Student’s Name)
  Hand Sanitizer
  Wired Over-the-Ear Headphones (No Bluetooth)
  3 Plastic Folders with Prongs
  2″ Three-Ring Binder
  Lined Loose-Leaf Notebook Paper
  Highlighters
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• 2026-2027 School Supply List: Kosciusko Junior High & High School

  09-07-2026 06:00 via breezynews.com
  
  The Kosciusko School District has released the school supply list for the 2026-2027 school year.Below are the lists for Junior High and High School
  6th–8th Grade3 Binders (2″ or 3″) — No Zip-Up or Trapper Keepers
  Highlighters
  Blue and Black Pens
  Pencils
  Loose-Leaf Notebook Paper
  Sheet Protectors
  1 Box of Colored Pencils
  Earphones or Earbuds (No Bluetooth Devices)
  Divider Packages for Each Binder
  2 Boxes of Kleenex
  2 Rolls of Paper Towels
  Hand Sanitizer
  1 Container of Sani
  
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