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• Kosciusko-Attala Partnership to host Legislative Breakfast

  19-08-2026 07:00 via breezynews.com
  
  The Kosciusko-Attala Partnership (KAP) has announced its inaugural Legislative Breakfast, offering local business leaders a opportunity to connect directly with State Representatives and State Senators.
  The event is set for Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026, at 9:00 a.m., at the Holmes Community College The Attala Center.
  Designed to foster dialogue between local lawmakers and the business sector, the morning will feature a moderated panel discussion focusing on key issues affecting the local economy and
  
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• Lawmakers to debate lithium mining in 2027 session

  19-08-2026 16:00 via mississippitoday.org
  
  Mississippi lawmakers are expected to debate taxes and regulations around lithium in the 2027 legislative session, determining whether the state becomes a major producer of the mineral critical to battery production. The Mississippi Development Authority published a report in May arguing Mississippi has the potential to engage in large-scale lithium production, but lawmakers have yet to decide taxes, incentives and environmental regulations for the companies that could develop th
  
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• A national divide over holding back students: Some states do it young, others wait until high school

  19-08-2026 15:00 via mississippitoday.org
  
  High school came with more responsibility and less accountability for Josiah Ulukita. Courses were much harder, teachers were less strict about attendance, and it was easier to skip school with friends or go on his phone during class, said 16-year-old Ulukita, who attends Kaimuki High School in Honolulu. He went from easily passing middle school to failing freshman English and social studies. After missing roughly half of his freshman year due to poor attendance, he found out he needed to
  
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• Crooked Letter Sports: Football eve

  19-08-2026 13:00 via mississippitoday.org
  
  The Saints played their first exhibition and college football is slightly more than two weeks old. We are on the cusp of football and the AP preseason poll is out. Ole Miss is No. 9. Too high? To low? The Clevelands discuss, plus Rick remembers the only Mississippi team to ever play in the Little League World Series, which turns 74 this month and saturates ESPN’s August programming.
  
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• City of Kosciusko selects equipment vendor and electrician for generator project

  19-08-2026 10:45 via breezynews.com
  
  The City of Kosciusko is moving into the installation phase of its emergency backup generator project following recent approvals by the Board of Aldermen.
  The approximately $300,000 project is largely funded through a federal grant administered by the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) and FEMA, which the city originally applied for two years ago.
  Following a reverse auction conducted through Central Bidding, the board selected Taylor Power Systems as the equipment provider and appro
  
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• Minute with the Mayor – August 19, 2026

  19-08-2026 10:00 via breezynews.com
  
  This week on Minute with the Mayor: Kosciusko Mayor Tim Kyle discusses generator approvals, street closures for “Meet the Whippets” and Homecoming, airport hangar construction, and other updates from this week’s Board of Aldermen meeting.Audio: 
   
  8-19 City of Kosciusko Board Meeting Agenda
  My Kosciusko App Download Links:Iphone
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• Assault, Malicious Mischief, and Child Endangerment in Philadelphia and Neshoba Arrests

  19-08-2026 09:35 via breezynews.com
  
  CODY GANTON ANDERSON, 31, of Philadelphia, Hold for Drug Court, DC.  Bond $0.
   VICTORIA MAHLI OSI BELL, 26, of Choctaw, Contempt of Court, Child Restraint Law X 2, NCSO.  Bond $0, $300 X 2.
   JOHNATHAN CARSTAFHNUR, 27, of Philadelphia, Failure to Appear X 3, Contempt of Court, NCSO.  Bond $0 X 3, DENIED.
   JOHN COOPER DIXON, 45, of Kosciusko, DUI – 2nd, NCSO.  Bond $2,500.
   CORY HALL, 43, of Philadelphia, Disorderly Conduct – Interfering with a B
  
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• Today’s Forecast: More Heat, More Storms

  19-08-2026 07:15 via breezynews.com
  
  HEAT ADVISORY shown in orange on map above
  EXTREME HEAT WARNING shown in purple
   
  Holmes County will be back under an extreme heat warning today and for the rest of the local area, a heat advisory is posted.  Highs will be near 100 with a heat index around 110.    But, just like yesterday, some thunderstorms are expected in this part of the state and could help to take the edge off the heat while providing some much needed rain.  Some of the storms could be severe w
  
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• At first redistricting hearing, Mississippians call push for new maps a ‘power grab’

  19-08-2026 04:34 via mississippitoday.org
  TUPELO – Mississippi residents who spoke on Tuesday at the first of several public hearings on redistricting around the state urged lawmakers to not redraw electoral maps, calling the effort a needless power grab aimed at diluting Black political power in a state with a sordid racial history.  The Republican-dominated joint House and Senate committee on redistricting kicked off its slate of public hearings in a nearly packed room at Itawamba Community College in Tupelo. Leaders
  
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• Mississippi Today welcomes new multimedia producer

  18-08-2026 21:55 via mississippitoday.org
  
  Mississippi Today is pleased to welcome Blake Barnes as its new multimedia producer.Barnes joins a multimedia team responsible for collaborating with reporters and editors to produce social videos based on Mississippi Today’s reporting. He will also contribute to the production of the newsroom’s video podcasts, as well as long-form video projects. He began work Monday.The hire reflects Mississippi Today’s commitment to reaching audiences and creating impact across multiple med
  
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• Congress is playing politics with Mississippi’s disaster recovery, nonprofit watchdog says

  18-08-2026 20:00 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 here.    In the U.S., the number of billion-dollar disasters is increasing each year. Wildfires, hurricanes, floods, tornadoes and extreme weather events are hitting communities wit
  
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• Prado plans to turn vacant Jackson YMCA into mixed-use housing and recreation site

  18-08-2026 19:02 via mississippitoday.org
  
  The Jackson City Council has approved rezoning for the long-vacant YMCA on Fortification Street.The council approved the rezoning from light industrial to community mixed use. The plan is to eventually approve a mixed-use housing and recreation site called Prado Conservatory according to the developer Gabriel Prado, president and CEO of PraCon Global Investment Group.“Their vote gives us the opportunity to save a property that has been dilapidated for years and transform it into something
  
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• Accident and Injury Tuesday Afternoon in Ethel.

  18-08-2026 18:58 via breezynews.com
  
  Around 1:39 PM, first responders were dispatched to a call about a car that drove into a ditch on Pope St. in Ethel. No injuries occurred, and the driver was able to climb out of her car without issue.
  About ten minutes later at 1:49, they received another call for an injury that had occurred on Pope St. as well. A man had lacerations on his left leg. It is unclear at the moment whether this incident is at all related to the car accident. EMS was called to the scene to provide aid.
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• Mississippi Today’s work on podcast honored with prestigious journalism award

  18-08-2026 17:18 via mississippitoday.org
  
  Mississippi Today, in partnership with Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting and The New York Times, has won a National Edward R. Murrow Award for the podcast “Abuse of Power: Beyond the Goon Squad.”The project features more than 70 interviews with former inmates and officers at the Rankin County jail. Reporters from Mississippi Today and The New York Times discovered a system in which guards ordered beatings, inmates who participated were rewarded, and those trying to
  
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• Only one Mississippi team has ever played in Little League World Series, and what a team it was

  18-08-2026 14:00 via mississippitoday.org
  
  Only one Mississippi baseball team in history has advanced to Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and the Little League World Series, which turns 74 years old this month and saturates August ESPN programing.The Hub City’s Pineview Little League All-Stars, an all-Black team, first won the 1977 Mississippi Little League championship at Biloxi. How that Hattiesburg team advanced from Biloxi, to the South Regional Championship in St. Petersburg, Florida, and finally to the Little League World Series
  
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• Machine Gun Manufacturing, Assault on a LEO, and Felony Fleeing or Eluding in Carthage and Leake County

  18-08-2026 14:00 via breezynews.com
  
  JAVYON ANDERSON, 23, of Goodman, Manufacturing of a Machine Gun, LCSO.  Bond $10,000.
   SHAKAYLA A CAMPBELL, 23, of Philadelphia, Speeding, No Tag, Failure to Use Child Restraint, No Driver’s License, No Insurance, Seatbelt Violation, Improper Equipment, MHP.  Bond $500, $500, $500, $500, $500, $500, $500.
   XAVIER L JACKSON, 19, of Farmhaven, Bench Warrant – Carthage Municipal Court, CPD.  Bond N/A.
   THOMAS LANGFORD, 47, of Carthage, Willful Obstruction o
  
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• Gun Machine Manufacturing, Assault on a LEO, and Felony Fleeing or Eluding in Carthage and Leake County

  18-08-2026 14:00 via breezynews.com
  
  JAVYON ANDERSON, 23, of Goodman, Manufacturing of a Machine Gun, LCSO.  Bond $10,000.
   SHAKAYLA A CAMPBELL, 23, of Philadelphia, Speeding, No Tag, Failure to Use Child Restraint, No Driver’s License, No Insurance, Seatbelt Violation, Improper Equipment, MHP.  Bond $500, $500, $500, $500, $500, $500, $500.
   XAVIER L JACKSON, 19, of Farmhaven, Bench Warrant – Carthage Municipal Court, CPD.  Bond N/A.
   THOMAS LANGFORD, 47, of Carthage, Willful Obstruction o
  
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• Barbour: 2027 MS elections shaping up to be historic free for all

  18-08-2026 13:00 via mississippitoday.org
  State and national GOP strategist Henry Barbour runs through likely and confirmed candidates for Mississippi races this year and next, running down the ticket from U.S. Senate, stopping just shy of dog catcher.
  
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• Grammy-Winning Artist Nelly Headed to Silver Star Convention Center in October

  18-08-2026 12:56 via breezynews.com
  
  NESHOBA COUNTY, MS — Multi-platinum rapper and three-time Grammy Award winner Nelly is set to perform live at the Silver Star Convention Center inside the Pearl River Resort this fall.
  The concert is scheduled for Friday, Oct. 9, 2026, at 8:00 p.m. Tickets for the performance will officially go on sale to the general public on Thursday, Aug. 20.
  Nelly first broke into the mainstream in 2000 with his Diamond-certified debut album Country Grammar, which featured hit singles including the tit
  
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• Ed Blackmon redrew Mississippi’s political map. Now he’s watching the Supreme Court unwind it

  18-08-2026 12:00 via mississippitoday.org
  
  Ed Blackmon Jr. was 16 years old, locked in a Canton jail cell with the roar of a poultry truck engine still fresh on his mind, when he decided to become a lawyer. The police had just jailed him and dozens of others on trumped-up charges of participating in a parade without a permit after orchestrating a mass protest in the middle of the Civil Rights era in support of voting rights for Black Mississippians. The demonstrators had only marched 30 yards from a local church when police pu
  
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• Kosciusko to host Richland in preseason jamboree Friday

  18-08-2026 11:46 via breezynews.com
  
  Friday night lights will return this Friday, Aug. 21, as the Kosciusko Whippets host the Richland Rangers for a preseason jamboree at Landrum Field.
  Both programs enter the contest looking to build on strong 2025 campaigns.
  Richland comes into the matchup following a 6-5 season that saw them reach the first round of the state playoffs. Meanwhile, Kosciusko is coming off a13-2 run that carried them all the way to the 4A State Championship game.
  Jamboree games usually consist of two full quarters
  
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• Kosciusko to face Richland in preseason jamboree Friday

  18-08-2026 11:46 via breezynews.com
  
  Friday night lights will return this Friday, Aug. 21, as the Kosciusko Whippets go on the road to face the Richland Rangers for a preseason jamboree.
  Both programs enter the contest looking to build on strong 2025 campaigns.
  Richland comes into the matchup following a 6-5 season that saw them reach the first round of the state playoffs. Meanwhile, Kosciusko is coming off a13-2 run that carried them all the way to the 4A State Championship game.
  Jamboree games usually consist of two full quarters
  
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• Downed Power Line Sparks Woods Fire in Hesterville Monday Afternoon

  18-08-2026 10:52 via breezynews.com
  
  Just before 2 p.m. on Monday, the Attala County Fire Department responded to a woods fire on Attala Rd. 3120. The Mississippi Forestry Commission was requested to assist as firefighters worked to contain the blaze.
  A downed power line is believed to have sparked the blaze in the Hesterville community.
  Crews found it difficult to containing the fire because it repeatedly jumped containment lines they established around the burning grass and woods.
  The fire was eventually contained by the combined
  
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• Ethel Set to Host Preseason Football Jamboree This Friday

  18-08-2026 09:00 via breezynews.com
  
  High school football action returns to Ethel this Friday, Aug. 21, as the Tigers host a multi-team preseason jamboree to close out their summer preparations.
  The exhibition event will give local fans their first look at the 2026 Ethel Tigers in live action before the regular season official kickoff Aug. 28.
  The jamboree features a double-header schedule, bringing together regional rivals for a night of scrimmage action on the hill:
  Jamboree Schedule (August 21)
  6:00 PM: Nanih Waiya vs. Pisgah
  Fo
  
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• Baptist Attala Hosting Open House for Newly Renovated Infusion Department

  18-08-2026 08:30 via breezynews.com
  
  Baptist Memorial Hospital-Attala will host an open house celebrating its newly renovated Infusion Department.
  It will be held Thursday, August 20, from 11:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. at the hospital.
  The public is invited to tour the renovated department, learn more about the infusion services offered locally, and enjoy refreshments.
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• Triple Digit Heat Wave Continues, Storms Possible Today

  18-08-2026 07:36 via breezynews.com
  
  HEAT ADVISORY shown in orange on map above
  EXTREME HEAT WARNING shown in purple
   
  Another sizzler across Mississippi today. Expect afternoon highs in the triple digits– for the third day in a row in some places.  Monday, Columbus got up to 105 and it was 104 in Meridian and Greenville.  A heat advisory will be in effect for most of Mississippi.
  Most of the local area can expect afternoon highs near 100 today with a heat index ranging from 108 in Carthage and Kosciusko to 109
  
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• Triple Digit Heat Wave Continues, Possible Relief in Sight

  18-08-2026 07:36 via breezynews.com
  
  HEAT ADVISORY shown in orange on map above
  EXTREME HEAT WARNING shown in purple
   
  Another sizzler across Mississippi today. Expect afternoon highs in the triple digits– for the third day in a row in some places.  Monday, Columbus got up to 105 and it was 104 in Meridian and Greenville.  A heat advisory will be in effect for most of Mississippi.
  Most of the local area can expect afternoon highs near 100 today with a heat index ranging from 108 in Carthage and Kosciusko to 109
  
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• Black legislators demand transparency from Mississippi law enforcement on fatal police shooting of 1-year-old in Senatobia 

  18-08-2026 01:27 via mississippitoday.org
  
  Joseph Cranney is a reporter with the Deep South Today Investigative Reporting Center in collaboration with The New York Times. Learn more about the center’s work here. 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. She can be reached at [email protected] two months of silence from law enforcement officials on the police killing in June of a
  
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• Black legislators demand transparency from Mississippi law enforcement on fatal police shooting of 1-year- old in Senatobia 

  18-08-2026 01:27 via mississippitoday.org
  
  Joseph Cranney is a reporter with the Deep South Today Investigative Reporting Center in collaboration with The New York Times. Learn more about the center’s work here. 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. She can be reached at [email protected] two months of silence from law enforcement officials on the police killing in June of a
  
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• House Ethics Chair Michael Guest violates the STOCK Act

  17-08-2026 22:58 via mississippitoday.org
  
  House Ethics Committee Chairman Michael Guest, whose committee enforces compliance of the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, violated the insider trading and transparency law, a NOTUS review of congressional financial records indicates.Guest, a four-term Republican from Mississippi, was more than six months late disclosing three stock sales made by a family trust fund owned by his wife, Haley, involving shares of the oil giant Chevron, the lodging platform Airbnb and the cos
  
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