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• Wildfire Danger Expected Next Week

  13-04-2025 13:53 via breezynews.com
  
  The National Weather Service says conditions in Mississippi early next week will favor wildfires, especially on Tuesday, as a dry front pushes south across the state.  The gusty winds combined with low humidity will make it easier for any fires to escape control and opening […]
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• Mississippi blueberry farmers look to future generations to join industry

  27-12-2025 15:00 via mississippitoday.org
  POPLARVILLE — As Mississippi’s blueberry industry faces a steep decline, one Poplarville farm is finding new ways to keep the state fruit growing — from fresh berries to teas, baked goods and even dog treats. J&D Blueberry Farm, co-founded by Donald Van de Werken and Jeff Brown, started small in 2004 selling fresh blueberries. Over time, they expanded their operation to include blueberry-infused products and a mobile bakery, part of an effort to build a lasting brand
  
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• Crooked Letter Sports: The Christmas-New Year’s-Sugar Bowl edition

  27-12-2025 00:02 via mississippitoday.org
  The question on everyone’s mind: Does Ole Miss have a shot against mighty Georgia. The answer: Of course they do, but the Rebels will have to play their best game and hope Georgia doesn’t. The Cleveland boys also discuss the New Orleans and Duke’s Mayo bowls and the resurgent New Orleans Saints.Stream all episodes here.
  
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• Beyond the classroom, Jackson Public Schools helps students, families meet basic needs

  26-12-2025 21:30 via mississippitoday.org
  When students have to grapple with challenges outside of school such as homelessness and food insecurity, it can curb academic performance, attendance and mental health. Those struggles can also lead to higher dropout rates and lower grades, said Josh Anderson of FutureEd, an education think tank. It’s like a stone dropping in a pond, with the impact rippling outward. But wraparound services, such as washers and dryers and food pantries, can directly counteract these negative ef
  
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• Christmas Morning Mystery: Man Tells Police He Went to Sleep in Memphis and Woke Up in Kosciusko

  26-12-2025 20:15 via breezynews.com
  A man from Memphis, TN contacted the Kosciusko Police Department early Christmas morning after waking up in the parking lot of Glendale Apartments with no recollection of how he arrived there. According to scanner traffic, the man said he went to sleep—apparently in Memphis—and later […]
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• Some professors say students struggle with reading and critical thinking. This center at UM tackles a more complicated truth

  26-12-2025 20:00 via mississippitoday.org
  There’s a complaint that Liz Norell often hears from faculty at the University of Mississippi: Students are not doing the course readings.Is it true? And if so, what should professors be doing to help students?  “We’ve been talking about this issue for as long as I’ve been in higher ed, and that’s almost 20-something years,” said Norell, an associate director of instructional support at the university’s Center for Excellence in Teaching and Le
  
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• Belzoni resident has witnessed damages of lack of health care

  26-12-2025 18:00 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.Rural communities in Mississippi are constantly being under-resourced, underserved and overlooked.Growing up in a small town in the Delta, I witnessed firsthand the everyday struggles of my neighbors, from food insecurity caused by high medical expenses to limited access t
  
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• Multiple Kosciusko Whippets to feature in All-Star game this weekend

  26-12-2025 17:14 via breezynews.com
  Multiple Kosciusko Whippets football players will play in all-star games this weekend. Receiver Jaybre Pierce, corner back Adarius Bonslater, safety Keith Lay, linebacker Rowdy Rone and defensive lineman Brayden McNeal will represent Kosciusko in the Magnolia Sports Association All-Star weekend Sunday, Dec. 28 in Decatur. […]
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• Two more Kosciusko Whippets to feature in All-Star game this weekend

  26-12-2025 16:43 via breezynews.com
  Two more Kosciusko Whippets football players will play in an all-star game this weekend. Linebacker Rowdy Rone and defensive lineman Brayden McNeal will represent Kosciusko in the Magnolia Sports Association Super Sophomore Game Sunday, Dec. 28 in Decatur. Both Rone and McNeal were key contributors […]
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• Year in review: Mississippi Today’s most-read health stories

  26-12-2025 13:00 via mississippitoday.org
  Looking back on 2025, this year has been filled with unexpected turmoil, twists and turns in the news, both in Mississippi and around the country.Here at Mississippi Today, our health team has reported out stories, and many of you have followed along, like Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, which are set to endure historic levels of funding cuts. We will continue to focus on how these changes shape health care systems and people’s health outcomes and qual
  
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• Top BreezyNews Stories of 2025

  26-12-2025 12:36 via breezynews.com
  Here’s a look back at the some of the biggest BreezyNews stories from 2025: MS State baseball players partner with Make-a-Wish Mississippi with Home Runs for Wishes (February) Husband indicted for wife’s murder (February)  Kicks 96 Named MAB Radio Station of the Year (March) Ethel […]
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• Denied parole 28 times, Wayne County man still clings to hope

  26-12-2025 12:00 via mississippitoday.org
  James Lukes says he slips in his earbuds and the slow ache of blues fills his ears. Johnnie Taylor’s “Last Two Dollars” crackles through the radio, carrying him back to the dusty fields of his childhood farm in Mississippi. Now 73, Lukes says he has to lean on a cane as he shuffles through the prison yard of the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, where he’s spent more than five decades serving a life sentence. At 17, he was charged with the stabbing death o
  
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• North Dakota Outpaces Wisconsin, Iowa, Arkansas, Rhode Island, Mississippi and More US States in Winter Real Estate Scams Exposing Major Vulnerabilities in US Housing Market, New Shocking Truth Could Change Everything: Don’t Miss It - Travel And Tour Wo

  25-12-2025 22:38 via news.google.com
  North Dakota Outpaces Wisconsin, Iowa, Arkansas, Rhode Island, Mississippi and More US States in Winter Real Estate Scams Exposing Major Vulnerabilities in US Housing Market, New Shocking Truth Could Change Everything: Don’t Miss It  Travel And Tour World
  
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• Carthage Man Arrested in FBI’s Child Predator Crackdown

  25-12-2025 21:52 via breezynews.com
  The FBI in Jackson says a Carthage man was arrested as a result of a child predator investigation.  The unidentified suspect is accused of communicating with what he thought was a 15-year-old female from the Abilene, Texas area.   The arrest was announced Dec. 24, two […]
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• Funding to help Margaret Walker Center at Jackson State preserve local artifacts of Black history

  25-12-2025 15:32 via mississippitoday.org
  In January, hundreds of oral histories, manuscripts, book collections and historical archives of Black Mississippians collected by the Margaret Walker Center at Jackson State University will go into a temperature controlled storage during renovations of its campus home, Ayer Hall, which is also the oldest building on the campus. The federal funds covering the cost of the move came through this fall, but for several months earlier this year, it was unclear whether that would happen.In 2023,
  
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• Dense Fog Advisory Again This Morning

  25-12-2025 13:43 via breezynews.com
  (Dense Fog Advisory shown in gray on map above.)   A dense fog advisory has been reissued this morning for much of Mississippi including the local area.   Visibility could drop to a quarter-mile or less.  Conditions should improve by mid-morning.
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• BreezyNews Skycam captures image of Santa Claus over Kosciusko

  25-12-2025 02:39 via breezynews.com
  Our BreezyNews.com Skycam, powered by the Bank of Commerce, has captured what appears to be an incredible holiday miracle tonight! Just minutes ago, the tower camera overlooking Kosciusko caught a fleeting but unmistakable glimpse of a sleigh pulled by reindeer streaking across the night sky. […]
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• 2 killed when motorcycles, tractor-trailer collide on Mississippi 42 near U.S. 49 - WDAM-TV

  25-12-2025 00:52 via news.google.com
  2 killed when motorcycles, tractor-trailer collide on Mississippi 42 near U.S. 49  WDAM-TV
  
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• Wild hogs wreak economic havoc in Mississippi

  24-12-2025 21:00 via mississippitoday.org
  John Parker Campbell describes the wild pigs on his family farm as “a constant headache.” Hogs will eat up corn and peanuts that have just been planted, damaging acres of crops in a night. Some years the hog damage is worse than others but it has been a problem since his father started farming in Copiah County in the 1990’s.In Mississippi, wild hogs create around $60 million to $80 million in damage every year, including eating crops and damaging property. Farmers, resear
  
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• Attala County Sheriff’s Office Continues Search for Jarius Campbell

  24-12-2025 18:39 via breezynews.com
  The Attala County Sheriff’s Office is still actively searching for Jarius Campbell, who remains wanted in connection with a shooting that occurred on Attala Rd. 1137/Horne Rd. earlier this month. He has not been located yet, and the investigation continues as ACSO has enlisted the […]
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• State to Permanently Close Walnut Grove Driver Services Bureau

  24-12-2025 15:38 via breezynews.com
  The Mississippi Department of Public Safety will permanently close the Walnut Grove Driver Services Bureau at the end of the year, with the final day of operation set for December 31. No appointments will be taken after that date. Town officials were notified late last […]
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• For Delta transplant, personal journey and Onward Store revival are aligned

  24-12-2025 14:00 via mississippitoday.org
  ONWARD – Growing up near Washington D.C., Miriam Bowden treasured the summers she spent visiting family in the Mississippi Delta. She got to engage with a world foreign to her own, she fondly recalled, playing in the fields, fishing and foraging.“Even though I am truly a city child, every spot of countryness I could find, I gravitated towards it,” she said. Decades later, Bowden now owns one of the south Delta’s most well-known institutions, the Onward Store along U
  
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• Dense Fog Advisory Locally This Morning

  24-12-2025 13:20 via breezynews.com
  (Dense Fog Advisory shown in gray on map above.)   A dense fog advisory has been issued this morning for much of Mississippi including the local area.   Visibility could drop to a quarter-mile or less.  Conditions should improve by mid-morning.
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• Mississippi Better Off Than Much of the Country With the Flu This Christmas

  24-12-2025 12:08 via breezynews.com
  Flu cases are spiking across much of the country, but not in Mississippi.  The State Health Department says our statewide flu rate is pretty stable.  For the week ending December 13th, medical providers across Mississippi reported that 2.6 per cent of their patients had flu-like […]
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• Holiday Gas Prices in MS: Not the Cheapest Any More

  24-12-2025 12:08 via breezynews.com
  If you’re hitting the highways for the holidays, at least filling up the gas tank shouldn’t bust your Christmas budget.   AAA says pump prices are the lowest since 2020.   The auto club says the average price across Mississippi is just under $2.49.  But the auto […]
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• Christmas: By the Numbers and Fun Facts

  24-12-2025 11:32 via breezynews.com
  As you wait for Santa this holiday season, check out these Christmas fun facts from ChatGpt.
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• Hosemann urges fellow Republicans on election board to fight judicial redistricting order

  24-12-2025 00:53 via mississippitoday.org
  Lieutenant Gov. Delbert Hosemann asked the state Board of Election Commissioners on Friday to file for a stay on a federal judge’s ruling that could lead to special elections for at least two seats on the Mississippi Supreme Court next year. Hosemann, a Republican, made the request in a letter to Gov. Tate Reeves, Attorney General Lynn Fitch and Secretary of State Michael Watson, fellow Republicans who comprise the election board. The request follows a Dec. 19 ruling by Mississippi N
  
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• U.S. Coast Guard returning its Pascagoula station to full operations - SuperTalk Mississippi Media

  23-12-2025 22:19 via news.google.com
  U.S. Coast Guard returning its Pascagoula station to full operations  SuperTalk Mississippi Media
  
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• Firehawk Aerospace expands U.S. rocket manufacturing by acquiring Mississippi facility - Delta Democrat-Times

  23-12-2025 21:34 via news.google.com
  Firehawk Aerospace expands U.S. rocket manufacturing by acquiring Mississippi facility  Delta Democrat-Times
  
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• Firehawk Aerospace expands U.S. rocket manufacturing by acquiring Mississippi facility - Star-Herald • Kosciusko

  23-12-2025 20:59 via news.google.com
  Firehawk Aerospace expands U.S. rocket manufacturing by acquiring Mississippi facility  Star-Herald • Kosciusko
  
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