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Bobby Whalen to Perform at The Two Museums Sunday

Blues musician and muralist Bobby Whalen will perform songs that recall the juke joints, stills, and casinos highlighted in the . . .

Sherilyn Jones Receives Good Middling Community Service Award From Delta Council

Sherilyn Jones of Inverness has been named the Good Middling Community Service Award Recipient for 2021 and will be recognized . . .

Sunflower County SAR Making Numerous Evacuations in Northern Part of the County Due to Flooding

Sunflower County Search & Rescue has been busy the last 48 hours. According to SAR President Stan Bennett, multiple people . . .

They asked ‘What would B.B. do?’ and they did it

"If the whole world would act more like B.B. King, we would have a really beautiful world." These were the . . .

PHOTOS: Flooding in Northern Sunflower County

After a week of rain, and more flash flood warnings on the way, we took a trip to the northern . . .

Sunflower County Search & Rescue evacuating residents in Rome on Wednesday.

This house, along with its neighbors in the Doddsville area was experiencing high water on Wednesday afternoon. The homeowner told us that the water tends to drain well, as long as the drainage pipes are free of debris.

Mississippi school districts targeted by ransomware attacks
By Kate Royals and Will Stribling - Mississippi Today, 285 Reads
Fri, 06/11/2021 - 04:46 PM
A group of cybercriminals hacked the Vicksburg Warren School District’s servers last month and claimed to have employees’ personal information and internal school documents.

A group that calls itself “Grief” breached the school’s servers through a ransomware attack on May 28.
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COVID-19 grant program promised to prioritize minority businesses. Did it?
By Geoff Pender - Mississippi Today, 2,014 Reads
Fri, 06/11/2021 - 04:50 PM
An emergency grant program for small businesses during the worst of the pandemic last year was supposed to give priority to minority and women-owned businesses in Mississippi in giving out grants up to $25,000 each from federal COVID-19 relief passed by Congress.
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Mississippi Covid-19 Update : June 14, 2021
By Press Release - MSDH, 132 Reads
Mon, 06/14/2021 - 09:28 AM
Listed below is the daily COVID-19 update for the state of Mississippi.

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Mississippi Covid-19 Update : June 11, 2021
By Press Release - MSDH, 213 Reads
Fri, 06/11/2021 - 09:52 AM
Listed below is the daily COVID-19 update for the state of Mississippi.

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Notre Dame shows pluck of the Irish in ripping State 9-1 to set up Game 3
By Rick Cleveland - Mississippi Today, 132 Reads
Mon, 06/14/2021 - 09:58 AM
Nobody said this was going to be easy. When you get to the Super Regional level, it’s not supposed to be. Indeed, Notre Dame players and coach had promised on Saturday that it would not be. And then, on a coolish Sunday evening, the Fighting Irish delivered on that vow, drubbing Mississippi State Bulldogs 9-1.
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"It's hard out here. There aren't any jobs around here, but I keep looking," said Michael Scott Beard, 34. Beard is homeless and living in his van. He readily does the few odd jobs that come his way to make a few dollars so he can eat and put gas in his van. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today

Jobless Mississippians fear what’s next as $300 unemployment checks end
By Sara DiNatale - Mississippi Today, 348 Reads
Fri, 06/11/2021 - 10:12 AM
It takes $80 to fill the gas tank inside the beat-up white cargo van 34-year-old Michael Beard calls home.
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If reaching consensus had always been required to call a Mississippi special session, many critical policies never would have passed. Credit: Eric J. Shelton, Mississippi Today/Report For America

Successful special sessions often began without consensus Reeves wants on medical marijuana
By Bobby Harrison - Mississippi Today, 401 Reads
Mon, 06/14/2021 - 10:14 AM
Gov. Tate Reeves is adamant that he will not call a special session to enact medical marijuana and to fix the ballot initiative process until legislative leadership reaches a consensus on how to deal with the separate but related issues.
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Former state Rep. Ashley Henley

Former Rep. Ashley Henley killed outside home where sister-in-law was previously found dead
By Geoff Pender - Mississippi Today, 411 Reads
Mon, 06/14/2021 - 01:48 PM
Former state Rep. Ashley Henley of DeSoto County was killed while mowing the grass outside the home where her sister-in-law’s body had been found last year, the Yalobusha County Sheriff’s Department said.
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Mississippi $1 billion over revenue estimates
By Sarah Ulmer, Y'all Politics, 174 Reads
Fri, 06/11/2021 - 04:04 PM
Mississippi revenue report totals $1,004.5 million, or $1 billion over sine die estimates year-to-date.

The May revenue report was released on Wednesday and reported an overage of over $1 billion for the entire year up until this point, and over $200 million just for the month of May.
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Former State Representative Ashley Henley reported dead
By Frank Corder - Y'all Politics, 466 Reads
Mon, 06/14/2021 - 05:40 PM
MONDAY MORNING, NEWS ON SOCIAL MEDIA BEGAN CIRCULATING THAT FORMER REPRESENTATIVE HENLEY HAD DIED.
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