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• Deputy Smith and K9 Colby Complete Certification Training

  16-04-2025 17:59 via breezynews.com
  
  Deputy Lucas Smith and K9 Colby of the Attala County Sheriff’s Office (ACSO) have successfully completed a three-week handler certification course through Southern State Canine in Hattiesburg. According to ACSO, course instructors complimented the duo on how well they work together. The course is held […]
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• Local residents win in Mississippi Lottery

  22-05-2025 17:34 via breezynews.com
  
  Two local residents are $500 richer after playing the Mississippi Lottery. According to a press release from the Mississippi Lottery Commission, there was a $500 winner in both Durant and Walnut Grove. The winning tickets were a part of the Sizzlin’ Summer Cash Bonus Promotion. […]
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• Local athlete selected for Native American All-Star Baseball Showcase hosted by Atlanta Braves

  22-05-2025 17:34 via breezynews.com
  
  A local athlete has been selected to play in the Native American All-Star Baseball Showcase hosted by the Atlanta Braves June 21 – June 22 Sanjiya Hickman from Nanih Waiya Attendance Center will be one of 50 players of Native American descent featured in the […]
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• Storied Jackson Medical Mall faces an uncertain future as UMMC clinics, health center depart

  22-05-2025 17:08 via mississippitoday.org
  Erica Reed could feel herself tearing up as she walked into work at Jackson Medical Mall on a Monday in April. It was the first time she had seen the lights out at the now relocated Jackson-Hinds Comprehensive Health Center’s adult medicine clinic – a harbinger of changes to come at the former shopping mall turned medical center. The transfigured shopping mall finds itself on the cusp of change as the University of Mississippi Medical Center, long one of the medical mall&r
  
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• Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon, Forgery, and Domestic ViolencAttala and Leake

  22-05-2025 16:53 via breezynews.com
  
  CHARLES W ARTHUR, 81, Abusive Calls to Emergency Telephone Service, LCSO.  Bond $1,000.   BOBBY G BREWER, 35, of Ethel, Contempt of Court – Kosciusko Municipal Court, KPD.  Bond N/A.   KAYLA CLEVELAND, 22, of Carthage, Shoplifting, CPD.  Bond $889.25.   SHANELL A FONDREN, 37, […]
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• How Mississippi’s HBCUs are navigating Trump’s federal funding cuts

  22-05-2025 16:43 via mississippitoday.org
  Wendy White, director of the Jackson Heart Study Undergraduate Training and Education Center at Tougaloo College, has experienced what financial markets and world leaders have all felt this year: whiplash. In April, the Trump administration paused funding to the center, which is the nation’s largest and longest-running training program for early-career scientists and hub for research on heart disease in African Americans. In total, 36 college students lost their scholarships. Fi
  
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• Photo: City passes resolution honoring long time employee

  22-05-2025 11:14 via breezynews.com
  
  The City of Kosciusko honored long time Parks and Recreation Director Todd Ables during Tuesday night’s meeting of the Board of Aldermen. Kosciusko Mayor Tim Kyle presented Ables with a resolution for his years of service. Ables has worked for the city since October 1996. […]
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• Multiple Tigers receive baseball All-District honors

  22-05-2025 11:14 via breezynews.com
  
    Several Ethel Tigers have been named to the 2025 Region 6-1A All-District baseball team. 1st Team Layton Ferguson Jake Newman Maddox Renfrow 2nd Team Kameron Fortenberry Region 6-1A Pitcher of the Year Cullen Rush
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• Man Sets Fire During Domestic Disturbance in Sallis

  22-05-2025 11:14 via breezynews.com
  
  A domestic disturbance between a mother and son prompted a response from Attala County Deputies and the Attala County Fire Department Tuesday morning just after 9:30. Deputies were initially dispatched to the scene, but firefighters were also called after the male involved reportedly set a […]
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• Kosciusko aldermen hold May 20 meeting

  22-05-2025 11:14 via breezynews.com
  
  The Kosciusko Board of Aldermen held its second meeting of May Tuesday night. Topics covered during the meeting were: The board continued to discuss what to do with the red train car located on Washington Street. Mayor Tim Kyle stated he had crane companies coming […]
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• Felony Embezzlement, Assault, and Disorderly Conduct in Leake and Attala

  22-05-2025 11:14 via breezynews.com
  
  MALCOM ALLEN, 40, of Forest, Hold for Other Agency, CPD.  Bond N/A.   JOSEPH D BORNINSKY, 67, of Walnut Grove, Disorderly Conduct – Disturbing the Peace, LCSO.  Bond $500.   DALE CHICKAWAY, 49, of Meridian, Public Drunk, PPD.  Bond $0.   WILLIAM L DEVOULD, 51, […]
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• Emergency Crews Respond to Rollover Crash on Hwy 12 West

  22-05-2025 11:14 via breezynews.com
  
  Update: There were only minor injuries and no one was taken to the hospital. Authorities say it does not appear that any vehicles rolled in the crash. MS Hwy Patrol is investigating the incident. *05/20/2025 at 10 a.m.* Emergency responders are on the scene of […]
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• Podcast: Baseball, baseball, baseball … and Davis Riley

  22-05-2025 00:46 via mississippitoday.org
  The best baseball teams in Mississippi, high school and college will be busy in post-season tournament play this week. Meanwhile, Davis Riley was pretty busy and pretty successful last weekend.Stream all episodes here.
  
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• Katherine Lin joins Mississippi Today through partnership with Report for America

  21-05-2025 16:47 via mississippitoday.org
  Mississippi Today is pleased to announce the addition of Katherine Lin to its Politics and Government team. Lin is a 2025 corps member of Report for America, joining 106 fellow journalists in placements across the country.Report for America says this round of placements is the organization’s latest response to the growing crisis in local, independent news and an increase of 31% from initial plans to help meet today’s challenges.
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• Shad White running for governor as pro-Trump candidate. But does MAGA have a problem with him?

  21-05-2025 12:00 via mississippitoday.org
  Key figures in President Donald Trump’s political operation have reportedly soured on Shad White, the Republican state auditor who intends to campaign for governor in 2027 and has attempted to replicate the political personas of the president and Vice President J.D. Vance.  A high-ranking person on Trump’s political team told Mississippi Today that several major advisors within the president’s sphere of influence don’t hold White “in high regard” be
  
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• Just over half of JPS third graders reading on grade level

  20-05-2025 23:13 via mississippitoday.org
  Just over half of the third graders in Jackson Public Schools are reading on grade level, according to test results released last week by the Mississippi Department of Education. At some elementary schools in north and central Jackson, nearly all the students passed the third-grade reading test on the first try. But the results show that a majority of third graders at schools in south Jackson failed the test, raising the possibility that those students will be retained this fall. They have
  
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• Ex farmer: Tariffs prove to be an issue where, as Mark Twain says, history rhymes

  20-05-2025 21:18 via mississippitoday.org
  Editor’s note: This essay is part of Mississippi Today Ideas, a platform for thoughtful Mississippians to share fact-based ideas about our state’s past, present and future. You can read more about the section here.“The minor events of history are valuable, though not always showy or picturesque.” — Mark Twain, 1891“I always say ‘tariffs’ is the most beautiful word to me in the dictionary.” — Donald Trump, 2025If I could slow time
  
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• While Trump overhauls FEMA, Mississippi tornado survivors await assistance

  20-05-2025 20:33 via mississippitoday.org
  by Sophie Bates, Associated PressTYLERTOWN, Miss. (AP) — More than two months after a tornado destroyed his home, Brian Lowery still looks through the rubble, hoping to find a tie clip his mother gave him, made from the center stone of her wedding band.“I still have hope,” Lowery said.He, his wife and 13-year-old son made it to safety before the tornado ripped apart their trailer home of 15 years, but the recovery from the storm has been a slow and painful process. Mississippi
  
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• ‘A hard-working man in pursuit of the American Dream’: Danish man living in Mississippi detained by ICE at naturalization meeting

  20-05-2025 16:36 via mississippitoday.org
  A Danish man living in Mississippi for a dozen years has been imprisoned in Louisiana for more than a month after Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers took him into custody because of a “paperwork miscommunication” during his effort to become a naturalized U.S. citizen, his wife says.Kasper Eriksen and his wife Savannah Eriksen pose for a photo in Sturgis, Mississippi, in autumn 2024. (Credit: Laura Bowman Photography)
  Kasper Juul Eriksen, now 32, left his home in Aalborg, D
  
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• On a day for right-handed aces, USM’s JB Middleton wins the Ferriss

  20-05-2025 15:01 via mississippitoday.org
  Southern Missace JB Middleton of Yazoo City and Benton Academy wins theBoo Ferriss Trophy.The newly refurbished Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame Monday held a celebration of something Mississippians do as well as well as anyone anywhere. I am writing, of course, of college baseball, played here and supported by Magnolia State fans as well as – and perhaps better than – anywhere else.Southern Miss’s JB Middleton, one of the best pitchers in college baseball, took home the Boo Fe
  
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• Tornadoes and Large Hail Possible Locally

  20-05-2025 12:55 via breezynews.com
  
  We’re in for more stormy weather in this area later today. And it could possibly be a more significant system than we usually experience in late May… “This pattern that we’re in is definitely a little more like you might see in April, more in […]
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• NWS Confirms Sunday Tornado in Carroll County

  20-05-2025 12:55 via breezynews.com
  
  (Photo credit: James Bishop, VOAD-American Red Cross, Alabama Mississippi Region)   The storms which blew through Carroll County Sunday morning produced an EF-1 tornado.   The National Weather Service surveyed the damage Monday and determined that the tornado touched down near the Valley Hill community, and […]
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• Natchez Trace Parkway encourages motorcycle riders to travel safely: “Different Road, Different Ride”

  20-05-2025 10:16 via breezynews.com
  
  TUPELO, Miss. — As warmer temperatures return and motorcycle riders take to the scenic byways of the South, the Natchez Trace Parkway is joining the National Park Service’s “Different Road, Different Ride” campaign this May to highlight motorcycle safety during Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month. The 444-mile […]
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• While Trump overhauls FEMA, Mississippi tornado survivors await assistance - The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel

  20-05-2025 06:02 via news.google.com
  While Trump overhauls FEMA, Mississippi tornado survivors await assistance  The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel
  
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• US Mississippi FEMA | Nation | hjnews.com - The Herald Journal

  20-05-2025 06:02 via news.google.com
  US Mississippi FEMA | Nation | hjnews.com  The Herald Journal
  
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• Felony Assault on an Official, DUIs, and Contraband in Prison in Attala and Leake Arrests

  20-05-2025 03:46 via breezynews.com
  JEFFREY C ADAMS, 27, of Philadelphia, Disorderly Conduct – Interfering with a Business, PPD.  Bond $500.   JAMARKUS K BOGAN, 25, of Carthage, Shoplifting, Public Drunk, CPD.  Bond $889.25, $239.25.   CAMRON S CARMICHAEL, 20, of Carthage, Bench Warrant – Leake County Justice Court, LCSO.  […]
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• Level-3 Storm Risk for Tuesday Expanded South

  20-05-2025 01:17 via breezynews.com
  
  The National Weather Service is maintaining a Level-3 “enhanced” risk for severe storms including possible tornadoes in this part of central Mississippi on Tuesday and that risk has been expanded slightly to the south.  It now covers Attala, Holmes and Winston counties and areas to […]
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• Busy Monday for Attala Authorities

  19-05-2025 23:54 via breezynews.com
  
  Attala County Deputies and Kosciusko Police responded to several incidents on Monday, May 19. Deputies were first called to Hwy 12 East around 6:40 a.m. for a cow in the roadway. Later, around 9 a.m., they assisted with traffic control near Dollar General in Sallis […]
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• Photo: Whippet powerlifter signs with college

  19-05-2025 22:46 via breezynews.com
  
  Kosciusko Whippets powerlifter Nathan Hill signed Monday to continue his athletic career at Blue Mountain College. During his tenure as a Whippet powerlifter, Hill earned several Top 3 finishes at the state powerlifting championships. Hill was joined at the signing by his teammates and KHS […]
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• Photo: Local team wins baseball tournament

  19-05-2025 22:46 via breezynews.com
  
  The 10U Stingers baseball team won their first tournament championship over the weekend in Brandon. The team is coached by Zach Bost and was founded by Wes Carter.
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