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Kiwanis Club of Louisville welcomes new members for the 2025-2026 term. Dr. Cornelia Coburn and Mattie Knowles participated in the induction ceremony and received membership certificates. Kiwanis is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to improving the world one child and one community at a time.
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Below is a religion column by Matt Friedeman:
People all over the world flocked to Jackson to learn effective ministry from him and his organizations.
John Perkins was sui generis. Incomparable. Unique. One of a kind.
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Robert St. John says his restaurant business and travel business aren’t two businesses. They’re the same business. It’s all hospitality.
There’s a moment — right before the northern lights appear — when the sky looks like it’s deciding whether, or not, to show you something. Then it does, and you understand why you traveled 4,000 miles. Twenty-five Americans stood beside me in the snow. Nobody spoke. The northern lights don’t require commentary.
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“Election day means election day, not election week, not election month, not election season,” Mississippi Republican Party chairman and RNC General Counsel Mike Hurst contends.
The Republican National Committee and the Mississippi Republican Party will make their case before the U.S. Supreme Court Monday morning in the lawsuit filed to overturn a COVID-era state law that allowed for ballots to be received and counted up to five days after an election.
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The bill’s author, State Rep. Shanda Yates, described the bill as a “great piece of legislation.” She said landlords not paying utility bills when part of a person’s rent is an issue across the Magnolia State.
Legislation to ensure utilities are paid that are included in a person’s rent or lease has cleared its final hurdle in the Mississippi Legislature and is now on its way to the governor’s desk.
The measure seeks to hold landlords criminally responsible for collecting utility fees but not paying the bill.
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U.S. Marshals capture Louisville fugitive
Bobby White Jr., 45, was arrested in Ackerman, Mississippi on March 17, 2026, after a fugitive investigation conducted by the U.S. Marshals Service. White Jr. was wanted by the Winston County Sheriff’s Department for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and attempted aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer.
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LMSD board reviews finances, leases and desegregation order
By Staff Reports
Winston County Journal
The Louisville Municipal School District Board of Trustees met March 5, approving routine financial matters, property leases and hearing a detailed legal update on the district’s longstanding desegregation order.
Board President Brenda Johnson called the meeting to order, with Vice President Thomas M. Dowd, Secretary Renee P. Jones, Assistant Secretary John C. Wilkes and member Jacqueline Steele present.
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Winston supervisors approve routine business
By Staff Reports
Winston County Journal
The Winston County Board of Supervisors met March 2 and handled a full agenda that included insurance renewals, routine financial approvals and updates from county departments. The board also addressed new weight hauling rules- which will appear in a future edition.
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UM Graduate, Greenwood Native Honors Former Professors
Matching gift to School of Accountancy building fund will name two offices
OXFORD, Miss. – A $100,000 gift to the University of Mississippi will name two faculty offices in the new Patterson School of Accountancy.
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Easter – Palm Sunday
By Lee Ann Flemming
Easter has always been one of my favorite holidays. After a long cold winter, spring is in the air. Well, sometimes – I remember having snow on the ground one year when I was a child. There we were in our Easter outfits, shivering while we stood in the snow to have our annual holiday photo made.
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Full Circle: 60 Years Later, Law School Reflects on Defining Moment
Alumni gather with Kathleen Kennedy Townsend to celebrate event that reshaped dialogue, free expression
OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi's Tad Smith Coliseum hosted its last crowd Wednesday (March 18), exactly 60 years to the date when its historic first crowd gathered in 1966 to hear U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy speak at the invitation of the School of Law Speakers Bureau.
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MSU Extension hosts
forest regeneration workshop
By Nathan Gregory
MSU Extension Service
STARKVILLE, Miss. -- Landowners, foresters and loggers interested in cost-effective reforestation strategies are invited to attend a Natural Forest Regeneration Workshop in Noxubee County.
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Mississippi Entrepreneurship Forum to Convene at Insight Park
Annual statewide higher education gathering will be April 9-10 at Ole Miss
OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi will host the 2026 Mississippi Entrepreneurship Forum on April 9-10, bringing together leaders from public and private institutions of higher education across Mississippi to share campus-based entrepreneurship efforts.
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Bark beetles threaten
ice-damaged timber
By Susan Collins-Smith
MSU Extension Service
RAYMOND, Miss. -- Mississippi State University Extension Service forestry specialists are encouraging timberland owners to keep a watchful eye on their property for signs of bark beetles and disease after January’s ice storm.
Of Mississippi’s five species of bark beetles, the three species of Ips engraver beetles and southern pine beetles, or SPB, raise the most concern. Black turpentine beetles are not as common or as deadly and are of least concern.
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Register by March 31
for watermelon event
By Bonnie Coblentz
MSU Extension Service
STARKVILLE, Miss. -- March seems early to think about watermelons, but now is the time to register for a summer field day that provides extensive information on growing these juicy treats.
Mississippi State University’s 2026 Watermelon Field Day is set for July 22 at the R.R. Foil Plant Science Research Center, commonly known as North Farm. Registration is free through March 31 and will cost $50 per person starting April 1.
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MALTB Recovers Stolen Cattle and Agricultural Equipment
This week, the Mississippi Agriculture and Livestock Theft Bureau (MALTB) successfully recovered beef cattle and a trailer stolen from a farm in Claiborne County.
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Gipson said the California law could impact agricultural and food industry entities headquartered in Mississippi, “mainly our big poultry and egg companies.”
Mississippi Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce Andy Gipson (R) signed an administrative order on Monday aimed at shielding the state’s agribusinesses from California’s new climate reporting mandates.
“Gavin Newsome should tend to his own State’s business, rather than trying to meddle with ours,” Gipson said on social media.
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Below is a political opinion column by Russ Latino:
Policy should not be made in response to very small groups of very loud people when it comes at the expense of everyone else that happens to be too busy living to understand how they are getting screwed.
“This is not PBM reform. It’s a tax increase on every Mississippian.” That’s how one of Mississippi’s largest employers summed up the Senate’s changes to HB 1665 in a conversation with Magnolia Tribune on Wednesday.
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Caregiver background checks will now be required every two years instead of annually.
Both chambers in the Mississippi Legislature have agreed to minor changes to the state’s medical cannabis program this session.
The House concurred with the Senate’s changes to HB 895 this week.
Under the amended provisions, the time of validity of a patient’s medical cannabis card will remain at 12 months, but the time a caregiver needs to undergo a follow-up background check was extended slightly.
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