Flowood native Amber Carraway took up sketching and painting at age 13 while recovering from neurological lyme disease on her family’s farm in Hinds County, Miss.
Thousands of Mississippians are still without power as the state faces a heat advisory. In a tweet just before 8 a.m., the Mississippi Emergency Management Authority said the outages affected 38,000 people.
More than 138,000 Mississippi residents lost power amid temperatures as high as the 90s since the arrival of severe thunderstorms last Friday, and thousands remained without power as storms continued to pummel the state this morning.
Oktibbeha County resident Vanessa Outlaw wants answers for herself and others struggling with State Farm Insurance’s claims practices.
Then-Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour channeled $570 million in Hurricane Katrina housing recovery funds away from rebuilding housing for poor Gulf Coast residents and toward improving the state port at Gulfport. That’s vital context for $77-mllion TANF scandal, Ellen Ann Fentress writes.
Tune in to MFP Live Thursday, June 23 at 6 p.m. on the MFP Facebook page or YouTube channel as David Rae Morris joins Kimberly Griffin and Donna Ladd to talk about his book “Love, Daddy: Letters from My Father.”
Heinz Endowments honors Hope Credit Union CEO Bill Bynum for bringing attention to the problem of financial access for the people in the Deep South. The organization added that Bynum received the award for his work at the helm of Hope Credit Union and for combating race, gender and locational barriers to wealth.
As Hurricane Ida moved over the Mississippi Gulf Coast on the 16th anniversary of a storm named Katrina, Edward Gonzales maneuvered his small bass boat through the swamped streets of Shoreline Park, an area of Hancock County inundated with flooding, looking for people to assist.
A powerful storm surge is flooding the Mississippi Gulf Coast as Hurricane Ida, a category 4 storm with winds speed of about 150 miles per hour, made landfall in Port Fourchon, La., this morning at 11:55 a.m. central standard time.
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