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PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. — The No. 7 Pearl River softball team kicked off the Visit Panama City Beach JUCO Softball Showdown in explosive fashion, belting five homeruns with 27 hits to defeat Coastal Alabama 8-2 and Andrew College 11-0.
"I am so proud of what our offense is able to do — coach Gruich does a fantastic job with them," head coach Christie Meeks said. "It's an advantage not only for our pitchers to work behind that offense, but to also get to face them on a daily basis as well."
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1 month 3 weeks ago
William Carey opened its home slate in explosive fashion—rolling past Columbia International with a 14-run outburst before three Crusader pitchers teamed up for a no-hitter against Campbellsville to finish off a commanding doubleheader sweep.
Despite a steady early push from the CIU Rams, William Carey used timely hitting and aggressive baserunning to pull away for a 14–2 victory Friday evening.
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1 month 3 weeks ago
PINEVILLE, La. – The William Carey Softball team opened its 2026 season in dominant fashion, rolling past Texas A&M–Victoria with a 14–0 run-rule victory highlighted by a no-hitter, before outlasting LSU–Alexandria in a thrilling 10-inning, 8–7 battle.
"What a day," said Head Coach Wendy Hogue. Our first game against a quality opponent was exactly what we needed to start the year. Anytime you can score 14 behind a no-hit performance from your pitcher, it's a good day. Defense played lights out and we had a great day at the plate."
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1 month 3 weeks ago
Chap Cook (Canton; Canton Academy) strolls to the plate in No. 2 Pearl River's sweep of No. 13 South Arkansas.
POPLARVILLE, Miss. — It was a day full of fireworks for the No. 2 Pearl River baseball team at Dub Herring Park. The Wildcats walked off No. 13 South Arkansas 5-4 in game one and followed it with a dominant 12-1 run-rule victory in the nightcap to complete a sweep.
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Photo by Russ Cloy, © 2026 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.
Southern Miss softball used 11 hits to slug its way to an 8-0 run-rule victory over Southeast Missouri Redhawks on Friday to open the 2026 season.
Kayla Giardina got the start in the circle for the Golden Eagles and allowed a leadoff single before sitting down three straight Redhawks.
“We were really proud of Kayla coming out and setting a tone for us on the mound,” Southern Miss head coach Natalie Poole said. “After that, we were really able to see our offense get after it right away.”
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1 month 3 weeks ago
The Hattiesburg Pocket Museum is proud to present Second Chances, a joyful and thought-provoking exhibit featuring sculptural artwork created by the students of Miss Erin Bilbo’s Petal Middle School art class.
Each piece in the exhibit began as broken or forgotten toys that would normally be thrown away. Instead of ending up in a landfill, the pieces were reimagined and transformed into imaginative characters, creatures, and scenes that celebrate creativity, problem solving, and fresh starts.
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1 month 3 weeks ago
Dear Editor,
Thanks, First Responders,
We would like to say a special thank you to the first responders who worked the accident on Tatum Salt Dome Road on Friday, November 14, 2025. Our daughter, Jackie, was involved in a wreck that almost took her life.
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1 month 3 weeks ago
Thomas University fell behind early and was unable to recover Wednesday night, dropping a 90–59 decision to William Carey in Southern States Athletic Conference play.
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1 month 3 weeks ago
Pictured is an adult male purple martin. (Photo courtesy of Purple Martin Conservation Association)
In a sure sign that spring is not far behind, the first purple martins of the year have been spotted in Mississippi.
The birds were seen on Jan. 31 in Gautier, Mississippi, by a purple martin enthusiast – one of many throughout the eastern and central United States who track and report on the birds’ annual migration on behalf of the Purple Martin Conservation Association (PMCA). The migration of these unique birds can be reported and tracked through a community science project called the Scout-Arrival Study.
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William Carey used a dominant second half to pull away from Thomas University, earning a 91–75 victory Thursday night at Clinton Gymnasium.
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1 month 3 weeks ago
Photo by Hattiesburg Athletics, © 2026 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.
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Hattiesburg head baseball coach Brent Barham is stepping aside from his head coaching role before the 2026 baseball season starts, a source told the Pine Belt News.
Barham was entering his 22nd year at the school, and sixth year as a head coach. His career record was 61-66.
Chris Bedenbaugh has been named interim head coach of the Hattiesburg High School Tigers Baseball Team, Hattiesburg schools announced.
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Southern Miss head football coach Blake Anderson knew when he took the job a couple of months ago just how difficult the first few weeks would be.
After former head coach Charles Huff left for Memphis and took a substantial portion of the roster with him — along with more than 30 seniors out of eligibility — the Golden Eagles were left with a roster in dire straits.
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Artist, Gavin Bird (center), cuts the ribbon on the first mural to be unveiled in 2026.
Representatives from Hattiesburg Alliance for Public Art (HAPA), community leaders and citizens gathered for the first mural unveiling of 2026- “We Only Come Out at Night.” The mural is the sixty-ninth on the way to the city’s goal of 100 murals and is located just off the Longleaf Trace between 4th Street and the Track and Field Complex for The University of Southern Mississippi.
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1 month 3 weeks ago
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Representatives of the Area Development Partnership present a proposal to the council on the benefits of adding two additional central business districts to the city.
The Hattiesburg City Council meetings held on Monday and Tuesday evenings played host to presentations with promise of improvements for the Hub City. A public hearing was held to discuss the state of several properties within the city limits as to whether they were in a state that could risk the health and safety of the community.
By Amanda D. Lee on
1 month 3 weeks ago
There are moments in a republic when the noise of slogans must give way to the quiet insistence of conscience.
This is one of them.
We are told, almost daily, that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is pursuing the “worst of the worst.” Instead, the machinery of enforcement has turned its iron attention on those who have committed no crime beyond believing, worshiping, and hoping in the wrong direction.
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1 month 3 weeks ago
The Pearl River football program was excited to announce the addition of 38 athletes as part of National Signing Day.
LINEBACKERS
Ahmad Anderson (Raymond), 6-2, 205
Aderrion Baker (St. Helena (La.)), 6-4, 215
Brytyavis Dear (Quitman), 6-1, 210 — MAC Second Team All-State, Bernard Blackwell All-Star
Cal Lloyd (Madison Central), 6-1, 205
Rhett Robertson (Presbyterian Christian), 6-3, 230
Trevor Wall (East Central), 6-3, 215 — MAC Second Team All-State
RJ Ward (Laurel), 6-1, 215
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“Are we really going to be the Gestapo?” podcaster Joe Rogan asked. “‘Where’s your papers?’ Is that what we’ve come to?”
Uproar over ICE and Border Patrol aggressive tactics has begun to breach President Donald Trump’s fortress.
“Hate to say it, but they are all lying,” posted lifelong Mississippi Republican Pete Perry on Facebook. “Denial of what we have seen, what has been put in front of us – them and us – and ignored and lied about. We saw it. They saw it. And they know we and everyone else have seen the truth.”
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1 month 3 weeks ago
Over the past few years, Mississippi lawmakers have passed some critical conservative reforms. Last year, Mississippi became the first state in America to legislate to eliminate the income tax in 40 years. In 2022, we implemented flat tax reform. A few years before that, we passed important labor market reforms. In 2024, we reformed school funding to get more money into the classroom.
It is thanks to these flagship conservative reforms that Mississippi has enjoyed more economic growth in the past five years than over the previous fifteen combined.
By Douglas Carswell - Mississippi Center for Public Policy on
1 month 3 weeks ago
Spin the truth, spin the youth,
confound the status quo
so they worry, fear and
Not understand
Do you trust your propaganda?
Those who owned the news
knew they could abuse
manipulate disenfranchised discord weaponized with indignant terrified urgency
Do you trust your propaganda?
The personally wounded, entitled,
idealistic, masters of displaced liability
and lacking self accountability
Do you trust your propaganda?
It is us against them, them against us
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Louisiana’s U.S. Senator John Kennedy has written a national best-seller, “How to Test Negative for Stupid And Why Washington Never Will.” The preposterous conceit that drives the book is that everybody, or almost everybody, in the nation’s capital is stupid, with the exception of Senator Kennedy.
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