Shelby County Schools officials are riding high, fueled by a dramatic swing from operating in the red to landing solidly in the black in the new fiscal year that begins Saturday.
But they say the district still doesn’t have enough...
Last school year, the small Lakeland district outside Memphis received about $64,000 in Title I funds to help educate poor students. Next year, it’s expecting nearly $427,000.
The Collierville district, 20 miles away, got about $635,000 last year. Next year?...
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For the most part, the state landed in the upper middle...
A historical marker created in Mississippi to memorialize and educate the public about the 1955 kidnapping and lynching death of 14-year-old Emmett Till was destroyed by vandals who obliterated all visible information about the death that helped galvanize the...
(Photo: Facebook/Ryshonda Harper Beechem)Mayor-elect Ryshonda Harper Beechem is the first African-American to be elected as mayor of Pelahatchie, Mississippi.“I definitely would like everyone to know that I’m here to work for the residents of Pelahatchie,” she said, speaking about...
A 35-year-old man was arrested after he allegedly shot and killed eight people, including a police deputy that the suspect said “was just there,” on Saturday in rural Mississippi. Willie Cory Godbolt, 35, confessed on video to a reporter...
(Fotolia)The Southern Poverty Law Center filed suit in federal court on Tuesday alleging that the poor performance of black students in Mississippi is the direct result of the state’s failure to live up to the terms of readmission to...
(Screen capture)Mississippi State Rep. Karl Oliver apologized on Monday after he posted on Facebook that those calling for the removal of Confederate monuments in Louisiana should be “lynched.”In the original Facebook post, Oliver raged against those calling for the monuments...
Left to right: Kingston Frazier, 6; Suspects:
Dwan Wakefield; D'Allen Washington; Byron McBride. (Photo: Mississippi Highway Patrol/Madison County Detention Center)On Thursday, a 6-year-old boy was found dead of a gunshot to the head in the back of a car...
By Timothy Burke, The Root
UConn is out of the NCAA tournament and its 111-game winning streak is over after Morgan William hit a buzzer-beater at the end of overtime to send Mississippi State to the women’s championship game by the score of 66-64. UConn was able to tie the game up and set up William’s winner with a highly questionable flagrant foul call on Dominique Dillingham with 27 seconds remaining; UConn didn’t score on the possession, though, giving the Bulldogs the chance to win.
UConn is out of the NCAA tournament and its 111-game winning streak is over after Morgan William hit a buzzer-beater at the end of overtime to send Mississippi State to the women’s championship game by the score of 66-64. UConn was able to tie the game up and set up William’s winner with a highly questionable flagrant foul call on Dominique Dillingham with 27 seconds remaining; UConn didn’t score on the possession, though, giving the Bulldogs the chance to win.