Southern Miss women’s basketball head coach Joye Lee-McNelis has been named this year’s winner of the Pat Summit Most Courageous Award. McNelis, who is battling cancer, fought through and continued to coach her team. While juggling treatments, practices, and games, … Continued
Coming off the heels of being named one of the best in the country, the Mississippi Children’s Museum has announced plans to expand its educational and workforce development programs. The museum, which was named one of the top three children’s … Continued
A Perry County man is behind bars after robbing a local church not once but twice. Davion Marquez Lang is said to have broken into the Temple Church of God in Christ in Richton on March 2 before temporarily getting … Continued
Federal regulators are urging parents to stop using a certain brand of pillow because of the dangers it poses to small children. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) says OmvedTherapies infant pillows present a suffocation hazard to infants. The … Continued
A population of freshwater snails native to Mississippi previously believed to be extinct has been discovered living by a group of scientists. A study published in Biodiversity and Conservation confirms that scientists from the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, the … Continued
Mississippi finally has a new superintendent of education. On Thursday, the Senate voted to confirm the appointment of Dr. Lance Evans after the longtime educator was named to the post in December. Evans will officially begin his role on July … Continued
Northern Mississippi It will be sunny today, with patchy frost in the morning and highs in the mid-60s. Tonight will be partly cloudy with lows in the lower 40s. Central Mississippi Today will be sunny, but you could see some … Continued
Mississippi State’s midweek loss has put a sour taste in the mouth of Bulldog fans, after a promising start to SEC play. Can the Bulldogs start to build some real momentum as Georgia heads to Dudy Noble? Is this weekend … Continued
We’ve never discussed Oklahoma on the Thunder & Lightning Podcast until today, but with the Sooners headed into the SEC for the 2024 season, the time has come. Brian Hadad welcomes Eddie Radosevich of SoonerScoop.com to give us a look … Continued
The city of Jackson and Hinds County will be the beneficiaries of aid from the federal government to have officials thoroughly trained to notify immediate family members of a death in the area. On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Justice … Continued