Panola County halts ambulance transports from hospital, citing problems with rural emergency hospital program
Transfers from Progressive Health Batesville to higher-level care by the county’s ambulance services ground to a halt Jan. 20 after the Panola Board of Supervisors stopped the services.

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On this day in 1900, 500 Black high school students in Jacksonville, Florida, sang “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing,” which gained the nickname the Negro National Anthem.
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