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Money for teachers to spend on classroom supplies should be available on July 15. Before, the Education Enhancement funds weren’t available until August, which meant teachers had to pay out of pocket or wait to make purchases to set up their classrooms for the new school year.

Scott Berry, the winningest baseball coach in Southern Miss baseball history, has been selected for induction into the American Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame.

After a wave of immigration enforcement arrests in and around Oxford in the first two weeks of June, immigrant communities faced a void of information from authorities as they confronted the emergencies and disruptions to lives, families and businesses caused by the detentions.

The Office of the State Public Defender requested a temporary restraining order last week to curb what it predicted would be catastrophic results from the sunsetting of a crucial law dealing with access to youth court information.

A federal judge who’s assigned to handle all ICE custody petitions in Mississippi has not decided a case on its merits since at least last October, court dockets show.

Administrator: Used appropriately and in balance with strong classroom teachers, virtual learning has been an invaluable resource for our students and educators.

Mississippi Today is pleased to welcome one intern and two investigative reporting fellows for the summer. 

Mississippi Today staff gives a rundown of the political stumping at the Neshoba County Fair last week. Did anyone make any news? Did we mention it was hot?

Tameshia Shelton’s lawyers are asking Circuit Judge James T. Kitchens to dismiss the indictment. If he grants the request, her case would mark the seventh exoneration in the same judicial district — a state record.

The Delta hospital had argued that missing a payment would force it to close this week and jeopardize a proposed agreement for the University of Mississippi Medical Center to take over its operations.