Starkville Honors Juneteenth With Six-Day Celebration ‘To Bridge The Gap’
Messages of hope, history, freedom and celebration rang throughout Starkville for six days as residents celebrated Juneteenth.
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Messages of hope, history, freedom and celebration rang throughout Starkville for six days as residents celebrated Juneteenth.
St. Dominic Hospital is closing its mental health unit and laying off 157 full-time, part-time and PRN employees, 5.5% of its total staff.
Entergy Mississippi gave $60,000 in grants to eight Mississippi communities for marketing, strategic planning and site work.
UMMC is shutting down the TEAM Clinic on June 30 after lawmakers criticized it for providing gender-affirming care to its patients in a recent Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review report.
Democratic Mississippi Secretary of State Nominee Shuwaski Young says he is “appalled” by incumbent Republican Michael Watson’s support of Senate Bill 2358, a “ballot harvesting” ban set to take effect on July 1, 2023.
About 900% more babies were born with congenital syphilis in Mississippi in 2021 than just four years earlier in 2017, Centers for Disease Control data shows.
Cyrus Ben won reelection last night and will serve another term as tribal chief for the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians.
The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians is holding elections today from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. for tribal chief and eight seats on the Tribal Council to serve four-year terms.
Mississippi State Epidemiologist Dr. Paul Byers is retiring from the Mississippi Department of Health on June 30, the agency announced.
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