4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (899+ words) Lockheed Martin has been named the winner of the 2026 Mississippi Makers Challenge, presented by the Mississippi Business Alliance (MSBA). The announcement was made today during MSBA’s General Assembly in Jackson. In addition to Lockheed Martin, the 2026 final four included Cathead…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (662+ words) Attorney General Lynn Fitch announced Tuesday the sentencing of Katricia Smith for one count of wire fraud. In 2023 and 2024, Smith, former owner of KLS Medical Services, LLC in DeSoto County, knowingly submitted false claims for Medicaid services that she did…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (242+ words) Research conducted across the state on the long-term challenges impacting Mississippi will be presented as part of the 11th annual Advancing Mississippi Conference presented by the University Research Center (URC), a division of Mississippi Institutions of Higher Learning. Planners said the…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (576+ words) Seventy years ago, a 21-year-old Elvis Presley came home to Tupelo. He was no longer simply the shy boy from East Tupelo who sang in church and listened closely to the music he heard in his Mississippi hometown. By September…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (628+ words) According to MBI, deputies were attempting to disperse a crowd in the parking lot of Michael Dean’s Convenience Store around midnight when gunshots were directed toward the crowd. A female bystander was shot and transported to a local hospital with…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (576+ words) A multiagency effort conducted as part of Operation Stronghold is working to help retailers and customers fight debit, SNAP and credit card fraud by locating and removing point of sale card skimmers from retailers in the state of Mississippi. The…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (268+ words) The Mississippi Development Authority announced Wednesday that Gulf Ship is expanding operations in Gulfport with a $43.81 million investment that looks to create 121 jobs. Gulf Ship is an Edison Chouest Offshore company. The shipyard has operated in Gulfport for more than…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (917+ words) Roughly 50 people provided their opinion during the second of several hearings taking place across Mississippi to gather public input on the potential for mid-decade legislative and congressional redistricting in the wake of the Callais decision. In response, the Joint Committee…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (665+ words) WLOX reports that “a property tax increase is official in Biloxi after council members approved a one-mill increase.” WLOX went on to report, “The resolution was amended to direct the additional revenue toward public safety… Under the reduced one-mill increase,…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago   (1325+ words) The Florida Panhandle has known a lot of different versions of me over the past 60 years. It knew me as a little boy whose father had just died, as a young man who had lost his way, as a newly…...