Some call it a “year-long calendar,” but in fact it is a “modified calendar” where students are in school every month of the year, but just for a few days in July.
Politics
Cindy Hyde-Smith blasted for ‘public hanging’ comments; she calls criticism ‘ridiculous’
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A spokesman for Mike Espy, who faces the senator in an upcoming runoff election, called her comments reprehensible
Election
‘Small enough to work against its own good’: In Natchez, old fears fuel doubt about the future
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Slavery once made it one of the nation’s richest cities. Today, some Bluff City residents worry about its long-term viability.
Education
Failing and forgotten: Black students languish as a Mississippi town reckons with its painful past
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Who will help Yazoo City children escape a future of poverty and underemployment?
Sports
Brandon’s Minshew, 2,236 miles away, leads the nation in passing
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Gardner Minshew II’s college stops have been in Troy, Al, Senatobia, Greenville, N.C., and now Pullman, Wash., where he leads the nation in passing for Mike Leach and Washington State.
With Gov. Bryant’s support, Mississippi law enforcement agency to dump Nike
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Black leaders blasted the move, saying Colin Kaepernick’s national anthem protest was not anti-police
Justice
Nicole Rathman was set to go home from prison. She died five days before seeing freedom
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Nicole Rathman was the 11th Mississippi prisoner to die in August. Her mother wants her remembered as a beautiful person — and she wants answers
A 14th Mississippi inmate death announced this month — quietly on prison agency’s website
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Gov. Phil Bryant and state prison officials have vowed to investigate the recent spike in deaths
Politics
Under pressure at Neshoba, Cindy Hyde-Smith hits a wall of Chris McDaniel supporters
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Staring down a crowd of nearly 100 raucous Chris McDaniel supporters, the incumbent U.S. senator stumbled at times, walking right into McDaniel’s most pointed criticisms
Mississippi farmers brace for tariffs’ impact: ‘We are the ones being hit the hardest’
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Mississippi is extremely dependent on exports – and China is by far the biggest importer of soybeans in the world.
When it dries, we’ll play baseball in Oxford but the players will still be short-changed
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College baseball has become much, much more lucrative over the last 20 years – unless, of course, you are a player.
Sports
A safe hire? No, Ole Miss crushed it with Kermit Davis Jr.
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Kermit Davis Jr. has been beating SEC teams for years with players SEC teams didn’t think could play in the SEC
This season’s most surprising Super Bowl story began in Petal
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You can trace quarterback Nick Foles’ trip to the Super Bowl back to his dad’s hard knock life in Mississippi
Lawmakers ‘blown away’ by $40 million Child Protection Services budget shortfall
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In the rush to create the agency, officials underestimated how much it would cost to run