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Is a shortage of literacy coaches keeping California from achieving gains in fourth grade reading similar to the “Mississippi Miracle”?

With Tropical Storm Bertha churning in the Gulf of Mexico, NOAA is forecasting between three and six hurricanes and one and three major events, which are Category 3 (wind speeds over 110 miles per hour) and above, this hurricane season. 

Mississippi Today and Goat Rodeo wrote the Black Box podcast with Mississippi’s opioid epidemic victims in mind. We want to honor the over 10,000 people who will never be able to listen to it.

Tropical Storm Bertha has strengthened in the Gulf of Mexico and is moving toward the Florida Panhandle and Alabama, causing a tropical storm warning and storm surge watches.

Several lawmakers said Monday that Congress should no longer remain on the sidelines and that the White House needs to explain where the conflict is headed.

“Black Box,” a new podcast hosted by Mississippi Today Mental Health Reporter Allen Siegler, follows Mississippi’s opioid settlement and examines how more than $400 million intended to address addiction, treatment and recovery is being spent.

Former state Sen. John Polk was a veteran of the Mississippi National Guard and served as an executive at his family’s business, Polk Meat Products.

Emails between Jackson Mayor John Horhn and a local tech nonprofit detail the benefits of a hyperscale data center at Lake Hico, including up to $15 billion in private investment and up to $20 million a year in revenue for the city.

Mourners gathered Monday for the funeral of 18-year-old Nolan Xavier Wells, whose body was found July 6 near Horn Island. He had gone to the barrier island with a friend group on the Fourth of July, and the death is under investigation.

Advocates at Nolan Xavier Wells’ funeral Monday renewed a call for transparency and justice in the death investigation and offered $100,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction.