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• Farm Bureau Coaches Show – August 27, 2026

  27-08-2026 09:35 via breezynews.com
  
  On this week’s episode of the Farm Bureau Coaches Show – Kosciusko Whippets head football coach Casey Orr recaps the 2025 season and discusses Friday night’s game against Neshoba Central.
   The Farm Bureau Coaches Show airs on Breezy 103 Thursday mornings at 7:35 am.The show is also now available on Spotify. (Just search “Boswell Media Sports)
   
   
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• Lax recordkeeping prompts state audit of Hinds District Attorney’s Office, the first on record since 2013

  27-08-2026 20:00 via mississippitoday.org
  
  Days before Brad McCullouch would be appointed the Hinds County district attorney in July, he sat down in a tan Shaquille O’Neal executive chair in a mostly empty corner office on the fifth floor of the Hinds County Courthouse. Prompted by a public records request from Mississippi Today, McCullouch decided to look for financial and payroll records. He tried to find invoices, accounting software, usernames and passwords for the office’s bank accounts, and audits. What he fo
  
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• Mississippi healthcare providers work to reduce overdoses linked to maternal deaths

  27-08-2026 19:15 via mississippitoday.org
  
  More than 100 Mississippi healthcare providers gathered Wednesday to confront a growing challenge: how to better support pregnant and postpartum mothers struggling with substance use. Nurses, doctors, counselors and social workers explored treatment approaches that prioritize rehabilitation, keeping mothers with their babies and replacing punitive measures with care, on Wednesday. The conference was organized by Mississippi Public Health Institute, a nonprofit that develops projects to enh
  
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• NABJ honors Mississippi Today for prison homicides project

  27-08-2026 18:07 via mississippitoday.org
  
  The National Association of Black Journalists has honored Mississippi Today, The Marshall Project and the Clarion Ledger with an NABJ Salute to Excellence Award for coverage of deaths inside Mississippi prisons.The year-long project, which involved Mississippi Today’s senior investigative reporter Jerry Mitchell and criminal justice reporter Mina Corpuz and Justice Editor Debbie Skipper, also included the contributions of the Hattiesburg American and Mississippi Link. It chronicled dozens
  
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• Assault on Police, Breaking and Entering, and Trespassing in Carthage and Leake Arrests

  27-08-2026 14:00 via breezynews.com
  
  ELIZABETH D CHAMBLEE, 22, of Walnut Grove, Simple Assault on Policeman / Fireman / School Official, Disorderly Conduct – Disturbance of Family, LCSO.  Bond $0, $1,000.
   BRANDY A GOODIN, 46, of Carthage, No Insurance, No Driver’s License, Bench Warrant – Carthage Municipal Court, LCSO.  Bond $500, $500, $0.
   STEVEN L KINCAID, 62, of Carthage, Felony Possession of a Controlled Substance, LCSO.  Bond N/A.
   TRACY A NORWOOD, 45, of Carthage, Burglary &n
  
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• Willie Manning awaits his execution. Can new evidence halt it?

  27-08-2026 12:00 via mississippitoday.org
  
  STARKVILLE — The case against Willie Manning hangs on a restroom token. It is the link authorities made between a burglary and the killings of two Mississippi State University students, putting him on death row at age 26.Two weeks before Christmas in 1992, deputies shone flashlights on a dark remote road until they saw something bright — a token between two puddles of blood. Court records show that within 24 hours, they concluded the brass token, about the size of a quarter, was sto
  
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• How the car used in the slayings of two MSU students wound up in a deputy’s hands

  27-08-2026 12:00 via mississippitoday.org
  
  STARKVILLE — During Mississippi Today’s investigation into the case against death row inmate Willie Manning, reporters interviewed retired Oktibbeha County Sheriff Dolph Bryan.The former sheriff investigated the 1992 killings of Jon Steckler and Tiffany Miller. He believes Manning, convicted in 1994 in the murders, took the couple in her two-seat Toyota MR2 from a fraternity house at Mississippi State University to the site where he killed them.Bryan mentioned that the 1986 MR2 was
  
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• Death penalty exonerations in the 16th Circuit Court District

  27-08-2026 12:00 via mississippitoday.org
  
  Kennedy Brewer: In 2008, the state of Mississippi exonerated him and Levon Brooks. Each had been accused of sexually assaulting and killing a 3-year-old girl. Brewer was sentenced to death in 1995, and Brooks to life in 1992. Pathologist Dr. Steven Hayne brought in purported bite-mark expert Michael West to examine the girls’ bodies. In each case, West claimed he found bite marks on the girls and identified Brewer and Brooks as the culprits. The bite marks turned out to be bites from pond
  
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• Attala County family set to appear on upcoming season of ‘Family Feud’

  27-08-2026 10:56 via breezynews.com
  
  A local Attala County family is taking the national spotlight this fall on one of television’s most popular game shows.
  The Newell family, from Sallis, announced on social media that they will be contestants on the upcoming season of Family Feud.
  In a public post sharing the news, family members expressed their excitement about representing their home county on the big stage, describing the taping as an unforgettable experience filled with competition, laughter, and local pride.Family Feud
  
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• Tougaloo College President Corey Wiggins promises transparency after years of leadership  concerns

  27-08-2026 00:56 via mississippitoday.org
  
  At his first convocation as Tougaloo College’s president, Corey Wiggins reflected on a question he’d asked himself before the event: What prepared him for this moment?“And strangely enough, my mind didn’t go to a job I had, a title I’ve carried, or even a degree I’ve earned,” Wiggins said during his speech. “It went home.” Wiggins, who took over as the college’s president on July 1, talked about growing up in Copiah County, and ho
  
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• Amazon challenge of data centers’ value could reduce tax payments to Madison County by millions

  26-08-2026 22:57 via mississippitoday.org
  
  Madison County residents were told that Amazon’s data centers would pay significant property taxes that would boost school and government budgets. But the actual amount may be lower than was projected, with Amazon challenging the tax valuation of its properties.Amazon Web Services recently challenged the Madison County tax assessor’s valuation of its data centers in Canton claiming that the county’s assessment is too high. The lower assessment Amazon is claiming would mean $5
  
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• ‘These are your people.’ Mississippians reflect on their special connection with Dolly Parton

  26-08-2026 22:43 via mississippitoday.org
  
  Even in his first conversation with Dolly Parton in the early 1980s, Sam Haskell leaned on his Mississippi roots to connect with the country music icon.Haskell’s job, working with the Beverly Hills talent group William Morris Agency, didn’t seem to interest her much. What piqued Parton’s interest, Haskell said, was when he told her he was from a small town called Amory and went to the University of Mississippi.“She said, ‘Ole Miss, that’s my husband’s f
  
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• Mississippi to get at least $189 million from landmark Meta settlement

  26-08-2026 21:21 via mississippitoday.org
  
  Mississippi will receive $189 million over 10 years as a result of a settlement announced on Wednesday between technology giant Meta and 47 states, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories that sued claiming the company’s social media platforms harmed children.The agreement nationwide comes out to $17.1 billion, the largest settlement ever paid by a social media company to states. Mississippi’s share of the payout was announced by Attorney General Lynn Fitch, who said Meta is s
  
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• Can an NFL athlete come back to play in college? Lawsuits by a pair of players from Mississippi could answer the question

  26-08-2026 21:00 via mississippitoday.org
  
  These used to be among the fundamental facts about going to college in America: College lasts four years. And though that timeline had been flexible when it comes to sports, there was never much debate over the notion that once a player moved on to the pros, their days as a college athlete were over.A recent rule passed by the NCAA has resulted in confusion, lawsuits and the once unthinkable notion of players leaving college, signing with professional teams and then turning around to
  
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• Mississippi cattle producers and politicians lament Trump’s imported beef plan

  26-08-2026 19:10 via mississippitoday.org
  
  Mississippi cattle producers and politicians are worried that President Donald Trump’s plan to suspend tariffs and cut a deal to import more cheap beef to the U.S. will hurt the state’s farmers and potentially cause long-term damage to an industry already facing high costs and record low herd numbers. “This policy does not help the U.S. herd-rebuilding efforts and could possibly do permanent damage,” the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation and its president, Mike McC
  
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• Juveniles Break into Abandoned House in Kosciusko Tuesday Evening

  26-08-2026 17:58 via breezynews.com
  
  Around 6:45 PM, the Kosciusko Police Department was notified of two individuals breaking into an abandoned house on Tipton St. The caller told police that the suspects entered through the back door.
  The intruders were still inside the house when an officer arrived. When he made contact, he discovered that it was two juveniles who had trespassed onto the property.
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• In rural Mississippi, crisis text services help fill mental healthcare gaps

  26-08-2026 15:30 via mississippitoday.org
  
  Rural Mississippi has the third highest rate of using texting services for mental health support in the nation, according to a new report by the crisis intervention nonprofit, Crisis Text Line. The report is based on nearly 2 million text conversations across the nation from 2019 to 2024, at Crisis Text Line’s 741741 number. In Mississippi, 53% of people contacting the line resided in a rural county. Only Wyoming and Vermont had more rural texters.Crisis Text Line hopes this report w
  
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• Felony Child Abuse, Aggravated Domestic Violence, and DUIs in Philadelphia and Neshoba

  26-08-2026 14:00 via breezynews.com
  
  SABIAN BEN, 20, of Carthage, DUI – 1st, No Driver’s License, Disobeying a Traffic Control Device, Failure to Appear, MHP.  Bond $1,500, $300, $400, $0.
   FERMIN CANO-MENDOZA, 52, of Canton, No Driver’s License, Hold for Other Agency, NCSO.  Bond $300, $0.
   JESSICA FERGUSON, 43, of Philadelphia, Hold for Investigations, Domestic Violence – Aggravated Assault, NCSO.  Bond $0, $15,000.
   APRIL HUTTON, 36, of Eutaw, AL, DUI – 1st, NCSO. 
  
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• Audio: Sunstar Insurance Coaches Show – August 26, 2026

  26-08-2026 09:35 via breezynews.com
  
  This week: On this episode of the Sunstar Insurance Coaches Show: Holmes Community College head football coach Coach Marcus Wood Coach Wood discusses getting the guys on campus this summer and discusses the game against Pearl River.  
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• Today’s Forecast: Heat Then Storms

  26-08-2026 07:07 via breezynews.com
  
  After a few days of quiet weather, storms could return to this area later today.  Locally, we’re under a Level-1 “marginal” risk of damaging winds from this evening into early tomorrow morning.  There’s a Level-2 “slight” risk to our northwest.
  Before the storms, we’ll get the heat stress.  Temperatures will be in the mid 90s today and combined with high humidity, our afternoon heat index will be approaching 105 in most areas and up to aro
  
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• Level-2 Storm Risk Now Includes Part of Local Area

  26-08-2026 07:07 via breezynews.com
  
  A Level-2 “slight” risk of severe storms with damaging winds up to 60 mph has been extended into the local area, now including Carroll, Montgomery, Choctaw, northern Holmes and northern Attala counties.  A Level-1 “marginal” risk continues for the rest of this area from late this afternoon until early Thursday.
  Before the storms, we’ll get the heat stress.  Temperatures will be in the mid 90s today and combined with high humidity, our afternoon heat index
  
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• Level-2 Storm Risk Expanded Further Across Most of Local Area

  26-08-2026 07:07 via breezynews.com
  
  A Level-2 “slight” risk of severe storms with damaging winds up to 60 mph has been extended further into the local area, now including all but southwestern Leake County, which remains  under  a Level-1 “marginal” risk  from this evening into Thursday morning.
  Hot and humid weather continues this afternoon. Temperatures will be in the mid 90s today and our heat index will be approaching 105 in most areas and up to around 106 in Durant.The post Level-2 Storm
  
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• A Half-Million $$ in Holmes County– Is Some of It Yours?

  26-08-2026 07:02 via breezynews.com
  
  A chance today to find out if the state may be holding some of your lost money.   State Treasurer David McRae and his staff will be in Lexington this afternoon to try to return about a half-million dollars to the rightful owners.
  “We just go all around the state,” McRae says.  “We’ll go to big areas, small areas.   We’ve had lots of legislators ask us to come to their hometowns to do it and we’ve had great response.  I call it our
  
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• Thompson and Colom urge Black voters to turn out in November amid redistricting fight

  26-08-2026 01:04 via mississippitoday.org
  
  U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson and Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Scott Colom on Tuesday called for Black Mississippi voters to turn out in November’s midterm elections to fight back against President Donald Trump’s agenda and an expected effort from state leaders to redraw electoral maps in Republicans’ favor.At a “Power in the Pews” luncheon in Jackson organized by the NAACP, the candidates spoke to a packed room at the Hilton Jackson filled with hundreds of attende
  
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• MDOT plans ‘Big Fix’: $400M, 2½-year repair project for I-20, I-55

  26-08-2026 00:04 via mississippitoday.org
  
  Leaders at the Mississippi Department of Transportation announced Tuesday that some of Mississippi’s busiest roadways will undergo major renovations over the next two-and-a-half years as part of a $400-million project. Called the “Big Fix,” the project will improve roads and bridges on Interstate 20, which runs east-west, and Interstate 55, which runs north-south, in Hinds and Rankin counties. The project, funded with federal and state dollars, will rehabilitate 36 bridge
  
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• MDOT plans ‘Big Fix’: $400M, 2½-year repair project for I-20 and I-55

  26-08-2026 00:04 via mississippitoday.org
  
  Leaders at the Mississippi Department of Transportation announced Tuesday that some of Mississippi’s busiest roadways will undergo major renovations over the next two-and-a-half years as part of a $400-million project. Called the “Big Fix,” the project will improve roads and bridges on Interstate 20, which runs east-west, and Interstate 55, which runs north-south, in Hinds and Rankin counties. The project, funded with federal and state dollars, will rehabilitate 36 bridge
  
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• Canton and Madison County schools anticipate millions of dollars from Amazon data center fees

  25-08-2026 22:49 via mississippitoday.org
  
  CANTON — Fees from new data centers in Madison County could generate millions of dollars for area public schools starting in January.Canton and Madison County schools officials say they plan to earmark the money for building improvements and investing in career and technical education. County leaders say the money could be “transformational,” allowing the schools to update their campuses, attract quality educators and offer innovative courses to students.That transformation is
  
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• Alleged synagogue arsonist will undergo psych exam, federal judge rules 

  25-08-2026 22:19 via mississippitoday.org
  
  A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Madison County man accused of setting fire to Mississippi’s largest synagogue early this year will undergo a psychiatric examination. U.S. Magistrate Judge LaKeysha Greer Isaac granted a request from Stephen Spencer Pittman’s attorney, who wrote in a sparsely worded court filing last week that he believed Pittman is suffering from a mental illness. “As such, the defense counsel believes this undefined mental disease makes the de
  
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• Dolly Parton, music star, actor and beloved figure who spanned generations, has died at 80

  25-08-2026 20:42 via mississippitoday.org
  
  Dolly Parton, the country music icon whose soaring vibrato vocals, poignant songwriting and sparkling costumes defined her rise from a log cabin in the Tennessee mountains to the height of stardom and acclaim, has died. She was 80 years old.Parton died peacefully Tuesday in Nashville, Tennessee, her publicist said in a statement.Known for her curvy physique, massive blonde wigs and skin-tight outfits that served her self-deprecating wit, she was among the most beloved personalities in music and
  
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• Treasurer David McRae urges parents to make saving for child’s future part of back-to-school routine

  25-08-2026 17:30 via mississippitoday.org
  
  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 hereThe hustle and bustle of a new school year has already begun, at least in the McRae household. It’s a time filled with new teachers, new school supplies and, of course, new routines.As Mississ
  
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