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MDE releases school and district accountability grades for 2024-25 school year

MDE releases school and district accountability grades for 2024-25 school year

NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: Sept. 25, 2025 MDE releases school and district accountability grades for 2024-25 school year JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) released accountability grades for the 2024-25 school...

Owner:  American Government
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Averitt Express Expands Richland, Mississippi, Operations

Averitt Express Expands Richland, Mississippi, Operations

Related Research Freight distribution and supply chain management provider Averitt Express plans to expand its operations in Richland, Mississippi. The $9.6 million project is expected to create 27 jobs. The investment will include the...

Owner:  Dennis J. Shea
Car will be given away to a student during Go Tell Crusade Southwest Mississippi

Car will be given away to a student during Go Tell Crusade Southwest Mississippi

Published 2:43 pm Saturday, October 18, 2025 Every student who attends Youth Night at the Southwest Mississippi Go Tell America Crusade in Brookhaven will get their fill of pizza and the Gospel, but one will walk away with the keys to a free car....

Owner:  Todd Carpenter
These tiny Mississippi Coast boats can survive Cat 5 storms. Could they reshape hurricane forecasting?

These tiny Mississippi Coast boats can survive Cat 5 storms. Could they reshape hurricane forecasting?

As Hurricane Humberto was rapidly gathering strength just east of the Caribbean late last month, researchers with the University of Southern Mississippi were busy preparing an experiment. Leila Hamdan, a professor of ocean sciences, and her team...

Owner:  John & Dathel Georges
Katrina changed how jails deal with natural disasters. 20 years later, challenges remain

Katrina changed how jails deal with natural disasters. 20 years later, challenges remain

Twenty years later, Hannibal Nicholls recounts what was going on in his life toward the end of August 2005. He was in college and was engaged to his fiancée. Then suddenly, he was in the Orleans Parish Prison complex, fearing for his life as...

Owner:  University of Louisiana at Lafayette & American Government
Climate Prediction Center Updates Winter Outlook

Climate Prediction Center Updates Winter Outlook

The latest seasonal temperature outlook calls for above normal temperatures for much of the lower half of the continental United States. Image: NOAA CPC NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center (CPC) has released their latest winter outlook for the months...

Owner:  Michael Konowicz
Mississippi residents sue UK-owned biomass firm granted permit for more emissions

Mississippi residents sue UK-owned biomass firm granted permit for more emissions

Residents of a small Mississippi town are suing Drax Biomass after the company won a permit to become a “major source” of hazardous air pollution at a local wood pellet production plant. The subsidiary of the FTSE 250 energy company was previously...

Owner:  The Scott Trust
Local farmer has environmental concerns about proposed asphalt plant

Local farmer has environmental concerns about proposed asphalt plant

Published 9:27 am Friday, October 17, 2025 By Ian Sparks UM journalism student Local developer JW McCurdy’s proposal for a new asphalt plant has been met with backlash from hundreds of Lafayette County residents. While the plant would increase...

Owner:  Todd Carpenter
From Italy to Mississippi: MSU grad student scholars present a humanities institute showcase

From Italy to Mississippi: MSU grad student scholars present a humanities institute showcase

Contact: Sarah Nicholas STARKVILLE, Miss.—From the language of diplomacy to the history of environmental conservation and the fight against disease, Mississippi State’s 2025 Humanities Summer Scholars have been exploring what it means to be human...

Owner:  American Government
Mississippi River Learning Center plans advance

Mississippi River Learning Center plans advance

Plans are heating up for the proposed Mississippi River Learning Center, an estimated $60 million project that would bring new recreational and learning opportunities to a riverside site near Crosby Farm Regional Park in St. Paul. An Environmental...

Owner:  Russ Roenick & Ken Firtel
Mississippi residents sue Drax Biomass over alleged 'toxic' emissions

Mississippi residents sue Drax Biomass over alleged 'toxic' emissions

GLOSTER, Miss. — A group of Gloster residents has filed a federal lawsuit against Drax Biomass and its subsidiaries, alleging that the company’s Amite BioEnergy wood pellet facility in the town has unlawfully released massive amounts of toxic...

Owner:  Tim Fixmer
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