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A media poll released Friday at SEC Media Days showed Mississippi State received limited support from conference media. Analysts Brian Hadad and Carlo Barone said they expect the Bulldogs to overachieve this season.
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About 1,000 rustic religious gatherings are active across the U.S. this summer, Magnolia Tribune reported, drawing multi-generational attendees for preaching, fellowship and missionary calls.
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Mississippi Today reported that a single phone call by House Speaker Billy McCoy in 2005 stopped a plan to securitize future tobacco settlement payments, a move that shaped how the state later used the funds.
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Police and prosecutors on Sunday issued a wanted notice for a fugitive suspected of driving a van near Berlin’s Pride festival that killed one person and injured at least 16 others.
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News Editor Ashton Pittman wrote that Amy Schafer’s appointment advances the paper’s plan to place a reporter in each bureau across the state.
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Lexi Flint was crowned Choctaw Indian Princess at the 71st Choctaw Indian Fair pageant on July 15, 2026, Mississippi Free Press reported. The outlet said she accepted a new role as a Goodwill Ambassador after the three-round contest.
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House Speaker Jason White appointed eight Republicans and two Democrats to a joint redistricting committee as the Legislature prepares to redraw legislative, congressional and Supreme Court district maps, the Mississippi Free Press reported.
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Hinds County Court Judge Yemi Kings is hosting a back-to-school drive in Jackson to help students start the school year prepared, WJTV reported.
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A Rankin County sheriff’s deputy is in critical condition at the University of Mississippi Medical Center after a two-vehicle crash Saturday afternoon in Brandon, WJTV reported.
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A two-vehicle collision Saturday afternoon on U.S. Highway 49 in Hattiesburg killed one person, the Hattiesburg Police Department said.
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