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The complaint focuses on the Chouest family, which owns shipbuilding company Edison Chouest Offshore. Family members donated to Ezell, who chairs the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation. Congress awarded the company a $950-million contract.
Mississippi State and Ole Miss were among the top-ranked teams for part of the 2014 football season. Both teams are strong this year, with outstanding quarterbacks.
In Tupelo, the annual Northeast Mississippi Mental Health & Substance Use Recovery Summit provides local counselors, social workers and teachers a way to fulfill their mandatory continuing education requirements without having to drive three hours to Jackson.
Authorities said they haven’t confirmed the deaths are related, or that drugs were a factor, but said packaged kratom was found during both investigations.
[11:45 AM] State Rep. Jeffrey Hulum III, who’s represented Harrison County in the state House since 2022, says his experience as a 22-year Army combat veteran, and years of helping feed the neediest Mississippians has taught him about leadership and how to bring communities together. Hulum is the Democratic nominee for the 4th District U.S. […]
No ransoms were paid to hackers during the cyberattacks that hit the University of Mississippi Medical Center or Institutes of Higher Learning this year, officials confirmed to Mississippi Today.
A former U.S. merchant mariner opened Woodside Wildlife Rescue in 2019 after she helped rehabilitate a baby raccoon found aboard her ship. The rescue in the coastal city of Pass Christian typically raises dozens of kits each year, 76 so far this year, alongside other indigenous wildlife.
While the grand jury heard evidence that he likely drowned, both the state medical examiner and a pathologist who completed an independent autopsy ruled the cause of Nolan Wells’ death as undetermined.
The United Nations’ historic resolution recognizing safe drinking water as a human right was ignored by the 5th Circuit in Jackson water case, advocate writes.
Of the 98 state government entities that responded to a survey mandated by Gov. Tate Reeves of AI use, a little over half were using or planning to use artificial intelligence.
