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• Leake School District Releases Statement on Employee Arrest

  03-07-2026 17:47 via breezynews.com
  
  In a statement released today, the Leake County School District said it’s aware of the recent arrest of one of its employees on a charge of “grooming” a child.  Under state law, someone commits the crime “when such person knowingly engages in a pattern of conduct or communication in person; through a third party; through the use of an electronic device, computer, social media, or text messages; or by any other means to gain access to, to gain the compliance of, to pr
  
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• America’s civil service protections were born from ‘Death by Lightning’ and put in jeopardy by Supreme Court

  05-07-2026 13:00 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  An epilogue should be added to the recently released streaming miniseries “Death by Lightning” explaining how this past week’s U.S. Supreme Court decision gutted the governmental reform that was at the heart of the historical drama – the inception of American civil service protections.“Death by Lightning” tells the story of James Garfield and his unlikely successful candidacy to
  
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• Car Wrecks on Hwy. 12 Saturday Night

  05-07-2026 10:18 via breezynews.com
  
  KOSCIUSKO, Miss.–A one-car wreck was reported Saturday night in Attala County on Hwy. 12 west, near the VFW.
  An ambulance was sent, with a person being taken to the hospital with a head injury. However the occupant of the vehicle was reported to be out and walking away from the wreck.
  Several deputies were dispatched, with the Highway Patrol also requested.
  Deputies and Kosciusko Police were eventually sent to the ER to deal with the person who was injured.
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• More Storms Expected Locally Today

  05-07-2026 07:03 via breezynews.com
  
  After severe weather rolled across Mississippi on the Fourth of July, more storms are already popping up this morning with most of the state under a Level-1 “marginal” risk of damaging winds.   Heat stress will continue to be another weather concern, although the only heat advisory today is for the northwestern corner of Mississippi.   Elsewhere,  heat index values approaching 105 degrees are possible across parts of the local area, including Attala, Holmes,
  
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• Person Burned by Fireworks, Ambulance Sent

  04-07-2026 21:14 via breezynews.com
  
  KOSCIUSKO, Miss.–An ambulance was sent to Brantley St. in Kosciusko Friday night when someone reported that their son had been burned by fireworks.
  That call was just before 10 p.m.
  That person filed a complaint against another person claiming that person had shot them with the fireworks.
  The victim ended up going to the emergency room in Kosy by private vehicle.
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• Several Trees Down Friday Evening

  04-07-2026 20:55 via breezynews.com
  
  KOSCIUSKO, Miss.–At leastr two large trees were reported to have fallen, causing traffic trouble and a downed power line Friday in Attala County.
  The first was on Hwy. 35 north. As volunteer firefighters neared the scene about 7 p.m., a group of neighbors were helping get the tree out of the road. It had been blocking both lanes.
  One of the people who was helping remove the tree got their truck stuck, which meant one lane of traffic was still blocked.
  As that was being cleared up, about 7:
  
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• This summer’s ‘dead zone’ in the Gulf will be larger than average, but task force claims progress is being made 

  04-07-2026 15:00 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration expects a so-called “dead zone” roughly the size of New Jersey to develop in the Gulf of Mexico this summer.Also known as a hypoxic zone, a reference to the low-oxygen conditions that kill fish and marine life, this year’s measurement is expected to cover more than 7,000 square miles.  Although that forecast falls below the record size of n
  
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• Aggravated Domestic Violence and Petit Larceny in Leake and Carthage

  04-07-2026 14:00 via breezynews.com
  
  MAR’KIAH T BURKES, 24, of Carthage, Bench Warrant – Carthage Municipal Court, No Insurance, Petit Larceny, False Pretense, CPD.  Bond $0, $438, $1,139.25, $0.
   ODELL FRAZIER, 53, of Carthage, DUI – 2nd, No Insurance, LCSO.  Bond $1,500, $500.
   JEREMIAH D HALL, 30, of Dallas, TX, Hold for Other Agency – Leake County Justice Court, LCSO.  Bond N/A.
   TYLER HAVARD, 28, of Forest, Bench Warrant – Leake County Justice Court, LCSO.  Bond
  
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• Sweet as Kickapoo Honey: Civil engineer finds harmony as a beekeeper 

  04-07-2026 13:00 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  CLINTON – Mauricka McKenzie didn’t grow up imagining he’d become a beekeeper one day.By profession, he is a civil engineer and president of Cornerstone Engineering, LLC, in Clinton.“I love it so much out here,” Mauricka McKenzie said about his honey bees at Kickapoo Honey on Friday, June 12, 2026, in Clinton. “Sometimes, I just come out here, sit and talk to my bees.” Cred
  
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• More Storms, Heat Forecast for Sunday

  04-07-2026 07:46 via breezynews.com
  
  Severe storms continue to develop this evening.  Western Mississippi is under a Level-1 “marginal” risk for damaging winds.  And a Level-1 risk has been posted areawide for Sunday.
  More hot weather is expected Sunday but a heat advisory has not been posted.
  (Second map below shows severe weather outlook for Sunday)
    
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• Heat Advisory, Storms on This Fourth of July

  04-07-2026 07:46 via breezynews.com
  
  Most of Mississippi remains under a heat advisory until 8 pm.  Heat index readings between 105 and 110 degrees are forecast.  Some severe storms are developing in the heat.  Western Mississippi is under a Level-1 “marginal” risk for damaging winds through this evening.  And a Level-1 risk has been posted areawide for Sunday.
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• Heat Advisory Continues on This Fourth of July

  04-07-2026 07:46 via breezynews.com
  
  Most of Mississippi remains under a heat advisory until 8 pm.  Heat index readings between 105 and 110 degrees are forecast.The post Heat Advisory Continues on This Fourth of July appeared first on BreezyNews.com - Kosciusko News 24/7.
  
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• Happening today: McCool to America 250 Independence Day Celebration

  04-07-2026 06:00 via breezynews.com
  
  The town of McCool will celebrate the nation’s 250th anniversary with a community-wide Independence Day event on Saturday, July 4, 2026.
  The “250 Years of America” celebration will feature an evening of food, vendors, live music, and fireworks, bringing residents together for a traditional small-town Fourth of July gathering.
  Vendors are scheduled to set up from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., offering food and shopping opportunities throughout the evening. The Firehouse Plates menu wi
  
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• Some paid the ultimate price to enact voting rights. Their survivors see America turning backward

  03-07-2026 23:30 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  WASHINGTON — Holiday gatherings and major life events have come with an empty seat. Certain dates on the calendar meant time at a cemetery, standing before granite stones.They are a relatively small group of people, scattered across different states, but they share a common bond that stretches back decades: Each had a family member die violently in the struggle for voting and civil rights, victims on a long
  
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• On nation’s 250th birthday, tiny Itta Bena and the Mississippi Delta provide a window into America

  03-07-2026 22:00 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.. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by th
  
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• ICE must provide bond hearings within 90 days to detainees awaiting removal decision, 5th Circuit Court of Appeals says 

  03-07-2026 20:03 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  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] arrested within the country are entitled to a bond hearing within 90 days of detention, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 Thursday. The court, which covers Missi
  
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• Mississippi firefighter suicides bring focus to mental health

  03-07-2026 20:00 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  Mississippi fire service leaders are raising concerns about first responders mental health as the state’s suicide rate remains above the national average. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mississippi’s suicide rate is 15.09 deaths per 100,000 residents, compared with the national rate of 14.4. Newly released data from the Mississippi Violen
  
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• New citizens are added in time for America’s 250th birthday celebration

  03-07-2026 17:30 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  With the Fourth of July and America’s 250th birthday this weekend, 19 people from around the world gathered for a ceremony that would unite them as United States citizens.The naturalization ceremony took place Thursday at the Two Mississippi Museums in downtown Jackson.Pradhumansinh Dolía, left, celebrates the naturalization ceremony of his girlfriend, Nikitaben Kosada at the Two Mississippi Museums i
  
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• Aggravated Assault, Grand Larceny, and DUI Arrests in Philadelphia and Neshoba County

  03-07-2026 14:00 via breezynews.com
  
  ADELAIDO MENA AYALA, 43, of Donna, TX, No Driver’s License, Hold for Other Agency, NCSO.  Bond $300, $0.
   AMAYAH SHALAN CAMPBELL, 27, of Philadelphia, Hold for Circuit Court, NCSO.  Bond $0.
   STEVEN A DISON, 19, of Philadelphia, Indictment, NCSO.  Bond $0.
   JOE ARTHUR ELEBY, 42, of Philadelphia, Hold for Drug Court, NCSO.  Bond $0.
   NICHOLAS GREEN, 22, of Philadelphia, Hold for Circuit Court, NCSO.  Bond $0.
   KADEN LEE HANNAH, 21, of Forest
  
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• One year after federal funding cuts, Mississippi’s Vietnamese health navigators face an uncertain future

  03-07-2026 13:00 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  More than a year ago, federal cuts to health-related grants threw into uncertainty Mississippi’s only advocacy group devoted to serving the needs of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders statewide, and they are still figuring out how to recover.In Biloxi, a five-person staff at the nonprofit Boat People SOS helps primarily Vietnamese residents with interpretation and translation, including for medical appoin
  
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• Heat Advisory Extended South, Entire Local Area Now Included

  03-07-2026 07:52 via breezynews.com
  
  HEAT ADVISORY shown in orange on map above.
   
  Heat and humidity remain a concern locally as we head into the Fourth of July weekend.  The entire local area is now under a heat advisory until this evening with a heat index from 105 to 110 degrees.  Rain chances will be increasing over the next few days and could provide some relief from the heat stress.
    
   
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• Heat Advisory Continues for Part of Local Area

  03-07-2026 07:52 via breezynews.com
  
  HEAT ADVISORY shown in orange on map above.
   
  Heat and humidity remain a concern locally as we head into the Fourth of July weekend.  Attala, Holmes, Winston, Carroll, Montgomery and Choctaw counties will be under a heat advisory until this evening with a heat index from 105 to 110 degrees.  Rain chances will be increasing and could provide some relief from the heat stress.
   
   
   
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• Senatobia police stonewall requests for details of officer shooting that killed 1-year-old outside Walmart

  03-07-2026 01:38 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  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]. SENATOBIA – Nearly three weeks after police fatally shot a 1-year-old boy outside a Mississippi Walmart, state and local law enforcement agencies have offered
  
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• It’s hot, y’all: High-pressure dome makes for a muggy holiday weekend in Mississippi

  02-07-2026 23:29 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  Chad Kincaid is working on a road construction crew – and like many Mississippians, he’s doing what he can to stay cool as a heat dome lingers over the state. He’s taking more breaks, keeping cool drinks on hand and getting shade wherever he can with temperatures in the 90s and humidity that makes it feel even muggier. Chad Kincaid sits in the shade to avoid the heat during a break from work
  
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• The World Cup, patriotism and victory come to Jackson’s Fondren Yard

  02-07-2026 21:04 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  Today’s column comes with this caveat: I become a soccer or futbol fan once every four years. I find the World Cup fascinating, even when I don’t always understand the intricacies of what I am watching.That probably put me firmly in the majority among the crowd of roughly 300 who watched the U.S. defeat Bosnia and Herzegovina 2-0 on the 18-foot wide, outdoor TV screen at Fondren Yard in northeast Jacks
  
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• Federal lawsuit accuses Attala County school resource officer of strip-searching high school boys

  02-07-2026 18:16 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  McADAMS — Parents of seven male students are suing the Attala County School District, the county and 13 other defendants, alleging that the boys’ constitutional rights were violated when they were strip-searched at McAdams High School. The boys, all McAdams High students, were individually escorted into a room on Feb. 10 and made to strip naked or nearly naked, squat and, in some cases, bend over,
  
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• Mississippi’s top health officer: Measles cases are ‘inevitable’ as county vaccination rates fall

  02-07-2026 16:35 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  Mississippi’s kindergarten vaccination rates declined during the most recent academic year, continuing a downward trend that began after the state started granting religious exemptions for school vaccine requirements.During the 2025-2026 school year, vaccination rates for required kindergarten immunizations fell nearly half a percentage point to 97.2% coverage, according to data from the Mississippi State He
  
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• Durant native Shunn Buchanan returns to Mississippi State as assistant basketball coach

  02-07-2026 15:04 via breezynews.com
  
  A Holmes County native is headed back to Starkville.
  Mississippi State head basketball coach Chris Jans announced Thursday that Durant native Shunn Buchanan has been hired as an assistant coach for the Bulldogs.
  Buchanan returns to Mississippi State after spending the past two seasons as an assistant coach at New Mexico State under head coach Jason Hooten. Earlier this year, he was recognized as one of 75 NCAA Division I assistant coaches invited to the Silver Waves Media Rising Stars Power Lunc
  
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• First Degree Arson, Drug Trafficking, and Grand Larceny in Neshoba and Philadelphia

  02-07-2026 14:00 via breezynews.com
  
  JORDAN BEN, 19, of Philadelphia, False ID, NCSO.  Bond $800.
   CHRISTOPHER DEAN, 35, of Philadelphia, Hold for Circuit Court, NCSO.  Bond $0.
   CHRISTOPHER EAVES, 25, of Noxapater, Contempt of Court, NCSO.  Bond $0.
   JOHNNY WAYNE GIPSON, 58, of Philadelphia, Hold for Circuit Court, NCSO.  Bond $0.
   AUSTIN HANEY, 18, of Meridian, Public Drunk, Public Profanity, Resisting Arrest, NCSO.  Bond $600, $600, $600.
   KALEB HAYMAN, 27, of Pelahatchie, Hold f
  
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• Updated: Mississippi Supreme Court staves off legal conundrum over child welfare confidentiality

  02-07-2026 13:00 via mississippitoday.org
  
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  This article was produced by the Deep South Today Investigative Reporting Center in collaboration with The New York Times. Learn more about our work here.After Mississippi’s child protection system was thrown into chaos by a law change that took effect Wednesday, the state Supreme Court issued an order Thursday that officials said will allow youth court business to proceed as usual. At least for now.The
  
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