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Mississippi viral video sparks backlash for WI auto dealership

Wisconsin · 20h

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Clarksdale School District requires masks inside buildings, transportation due to increase of respiratory illnesses

CLARKSDALE, Miss. - Clarksdale Municipal School District is requiring masks to be worn inside school buildings and transportation due to an increase in respiratory illnesses. The school district provided the following statement:. "Wildcat Nation!. We need your help keeping our schools healthy. If your child is not feeling well, please...

Clarksdale, MS · 23h
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Mississippi viral racist video sparks backlash for Wisconsin dealership

MILWAUKEE - A viral video showing racist gestures at Ole Miss sparked nationwide outrage, signaling trouble for Kunes Auto Group, a Wisconsin dealership that has a storied past with discrimination against Black customers. Racist video goes viral. What To Know. Two confirmed sources who are current employees confirmed one of...

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Colom leads Hyde-Smith as MS Senate race remains uncalled

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Mississippi U.S. Senate race between Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith and Democrat Scott remains uncalled, as numbers show Colom ahead by more than 2,500 votes. This comes as the DeSoto County Election Commission prepares to count affidavit and mail-in ballots this week. WREG spoke to a DeSoto resident who is raising concerns […]

Mississippi · 1d

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K. Carbon Explains Why West Memphis Is Not Memphis: “You In a Whole New State”

Rapper K. Carbon is making one thing clear: just because a city has Memphis in its name doesn’t mean Memphis natives claim it as part of their hometown. During a recent appearance on The Baller Alert Show, the Memphis rapper broke down the difference between Memphis, Tennessee, and West Memphis, Arkansas, explaining why locals don’t consider the two places the same.

West Memphis, AR · 3d

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Pope, Panola County: Railroads, Cotton, Churches, and the Schools of a Mississippi Town

Appalachian Community Histories – Pope, Panola County: Railroads, Cotton, Churches, and the Schools of a Mississippi Town. In the southern portion of Panola County, Mississippi, the small community of Pope developed beside a railroad that helped transform the surrounding countryside during the nineteenth century. What began as a settlement associated with railroad construction and agricultural land gradually became an incorporated municipality with churches, schools, merchants, mills, and a cotton trade that connected local farmers to markets beyond northern Mississippi. Although Pope never grew into a large commercial center, its history provides an important example of how transportation, agriculture, religion, education, and community organizations shaped the development of rural towns throughout the region.

Panola County, MS · 1d

Biloxi Sun Herald

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Elon Musk company started Mississippi data center without permits, state alleges

Mississippi’s environmental regulators released details this week on a set of penalties against SpaceXAI for violating state water pollution laws by starting construction on its Southaven data center facilities without needed permits. The company first announced the potential fines to investors two weeks ago, speculating the amount could reach as much as $6.1 million. To limit pollution from construction reaching public bodies of water, state law requires companies to first obtain a permit. Without proper protections, rain, for instance, can carry debris and chemicals off construction sites and pollute natural habitats, drinking water systems and recreational areas, federal regulators warn . Earlier this year, SpaceXAI – through its subsidiary, MZX Tech LLC – asked the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality for permits allowing construction within its growing Southaven footprint , which includes a power plant as well as land to build a $20 billion data center facility called MACROHARDRR. But during a July meeting between MDEQ and MZX Tech, “it became apparent” the company had already begun construction on the land in question, impacting about 30 acres, MDEQ records show. On July 16, a day after the meeting, MDEQ staff visited Southaven and confirmed the infractions. The agency sent two

Southaven, MS · 1d

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Locke Station, Panola County: Rural Roads, Cotton Fields, and a Mississippi Delta Community

Appalachian Community Histories – Locke Station, Panola County: Rural Roads, Cotton Fields, and a Mississippi Delta Community. In the western countryside of Panola County, Mississippi, near the boundary with neighboring Quitman County, lies a rural community known as Locke Station. Unlike the larger towns of Batesville, Sardis, and Marks, Locke Station has never developed into a prominent commercial center, yet its name has survived through government maps, transportation records, and other official documents that preserve the geography of northwestern Mississippi.

Panola County, MS · 1d

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Tocowa, Panola County: Mineral Springs, a Historic Hotel, and a Forgotten Mississippi Resort Town

Appalachian Community Histories – Tocowa, Panola County: Mineral Springs, a Historic Hotel, and a Forgotten Mississippi Resort Town. In the wooded hills of southwestern Panola County, Mississippi, where the rolling bluffs descend toward the lowlands of the Mississippi Delta, there once stood a small town known for its mineral springs, country hotel, and reputation as a place of healing. The community was called Tocowa, although historical records also refer to the surrounding area as Tocowa Springs or Tocawa Springs Village. During the nineteenth century, its natural spring attracted visitors who believed that the water possessed medicinal properties, while the surrounding settlement developed into a small center of rural commerce, education, and community life.

Panola County, MS · 1d

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DeSoto County, a Republican stronghold, key to Scott Colom’s midterm election performance

Put simply, if Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith had performed as well as she did in 2020 in that one county – DeSoto – she would not be staring at a potential history-making upset.

Desoto County, MS · 2d

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Terza, Panola County: A Methodist Church, a Rural Post Office, and the Lester Family

Appalachian Community Histories – Terza, Panola County: A Methodist Church, a Rural Post Office, and the Lester Family. Along Terza Road in Panola County, Mississippi, between the communities of Batesville and Sardis, lies a rural settlement whose history can easily be overlooked. Terza never developed into one of the county’s principal towns, and surviving historical accounts offer little indication that it possessed the commercial importance of its larger neighbors. Nevertheless, the community’s name appears in nineteenth-century postal records, early Mississippi historical publications, Methodist church histories, and cemetery records that reveal a settlement with roots extending back to the antebellum period.

Panola County, MS · 1d

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Groups raise concerns about public view of affidavit ballot count in 3 Mississippi counties

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - Local groups are raising concerns about how affidavit ballots are being counted in DeSoto, Harrison and Madison counties. The groups say part of the process is happening out of public view. Harya Tarekegn, director of advocacy for the Mississippi Center for Justice, said some counties are...

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Pleasant Grove, Panola County: From a Rural Post Office to Schools, Churches, Baseball, and the Blues

Appalachian Community Histories – Pleasant Grove, Panola County: From a Rural Post Office to Schools, Churches, Baseball, and the Blues. Along Mississippi Highway 315, approximately ten miles west of Sardis, lies Pleasant Grove, a rural community whose history reflects the agricultural traditions, religious institutions, educational developments, and changing social conditions of northern Mississippi. Although Pleasant Grove never developed into a large incorporated town, its churches, stores, post office, school, and surrounding farms once provided important connections for families living in the western portion of Panola County.

Panola County, MS · 1d

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Mississippi Blood Services seeks donors, collects food through Nov. 21

MISSISSIPPI — Mississippi Blood Services is asking residents to donate blood at mobile drives and bring nonperishable food to its Flowood and Oxford donation centers through Nov. 21. The organization says it needs about 250 blood donors each day to meet the needs of patients at local hospitals. Donors...

Flowood, MS · 1d

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Horatio, Panola County: From a Rural Post Office to a Forgotten Mississippi Town

Appalachian Community Histories – Horatio, Panola County: From a Rural Post Office to a Forgotten Mississippi Town. In the countryside west of Sardis, Mississippi, once stood a small community known as Horatio, a place whose name has largely disappeared from modern maps but whose history survives through scattered postal records, early twentieth-century directories, and references to one of Panola County’s historic churches. Unlike the larger communities of Sardis, Batesville, and Como, Horatio never became a major commercial center, and its surviving documentation offers only fragments of the lives and institutions that once defined it.

Panola County, MS · 1d

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Scobey, Yalobusha County: From Preston and Garner to a Mississippi Railroad Town

Appalachian Community Histories – Scobey, Yalobusha County: From Preston and Garner to a Mississippi Railroad Town. In the southwestern corner of Yalobusha County, Mississippi, the community of Scobey developed along a railroad that helped reshape the settlement patterns of northern Mississippi during the nineteenth century. Although its population never approached that of larger towns such as Grenada, Coffeeville, or Water Valley, Scobey became an important local connection between the agricultural countryside and the expanding transportation network that linked Mississippi to markets across the South.

Yalobusha County, MS · 4d

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Longtown, Panola County: From an Incorporated Town to a Rural Mississippi Community

Appalachian Community Histories – Longtown, Panola County: From an Incorporated Town to a Rural Mississippi Community. In the northwestern countryside of Panola County, Mississippi, lies Longtown, a rural community whose history reaches back to the nineteenth century. Although it never developed into a major commercial center, Longtown once possessed something that many small settlements never obtained: an official municipal charter granted by the Mississippi Legislature. It also maintained a post office, supported churches and educational institutions, and became home to a benevolent society whose members corresponded directly with the governor of Mississippi.

Panola County, MS · 1d

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Gipson to chair hearing on proposed Southaven power plant

JACKSON — Mississippi’s environmental permit board will hold a hearing Monday on a proposed Southaven power plant that would supply electricity to data centers. Agriculture and Commerce Commissioner Andy Gipson will chair the hearing. The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality Permit Board will hear evidence in the matter...

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Glenville, Panola County: From the 1871 Post Office to the Fiddle Music of Bob Pratcher

Appalachian Community Histories – Glenville, Panola County: From the 1871 Post Office to the Fiddle Music of Bob Pratcher. In the countryside of northern Panola County, Mississippi, near Mississippi Highway 310 and southwest of Tyro, lies the small community of Glenville. Unlike the larger towns of Sardis, Como, and Batesville, Glenville never developed into a major commercial or railroad center, but its name survives in nineteenth-century postal directories, historical maps, cemetery records, and the musical history of northern Mississippi. Its story reflects the experiences of rural settlements whose importance rested less on their size than on the farms, churches, families, and everyday institutions that connected the surrounding countryside.

Panola County, MS · 1d

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Board of Aldermen collects record sales tax revenue, funds infrastructure improvements

Mayor Robyn Tannehill praised Oxford for the financial success during the 2026 calendar year, referencing statistics from August 2026 to showcase this growth, at the Board of Aldermen meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 3. “Sales tax collection set a new record, coming in right at over $1.5 million,” Tannehill said. “That’s...

Oxford, MS · 23h