The main exhibit hall at the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum at Camp Shelby will be open to the public July 4, for the first time in nearly four months.
Several fireworks shows that usually take place in the Pine Belt have been canceled this year due to COVID-19, but some places are still holding events for people to celebrate the Fourth of July.
If you have information about crime being committed in the Forrest County area, contact the FCSO Dispatch at (601) 544-7800 or submit an anonymous tip through Metro Crime Stoppers at (601) 582-STOP or p3tips.com.
U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith released a message Friday to recognize Independence Day, mentioning the challenges facing the nation and the American will to make things better for the future.
A veterans organization and a local caterer teamed up Thursday to serve a holiday lunch to residents at the Mississippi State Veterans Home in Collins.
The years-long debate to change Mississippi’s 1894 state flag concluded this week with Gov. Tate Reeves’s signature and the flag’s retirement ceremony.
Lt. Gov. Delbert Hosemann announced Thursday the Mississippi Legislature has allocated $275 million in federal coronavirus relief funds to rural broadband expansion and K-12 learning initiatives.
Jackson based Hope Credit Union receives a $10 million dollar deposit from Netflix to help bring economic opportunities to black communities in Mississippi.
MDES says the system was developed to assist the business community in transitioning employees, who were separated from their jobs due to COVID-19 back into the workforce.
The three confederate flags are now in their permanent new home, the Museum of Mississippi History. The flags made their way in a motorcade just blocks away from the Capitol, with a host of dignitaries; notably missing from the ceremony, Governor Tate Reeves.
For weeks, amid steadily increasing coronavirus cases and a vulnerable health care system, Gov. Tate Reeves and the state’s health officer have been pleading with Mississippians to wear masks and practice social distancing.
The Mississippi Senate’s Public Health and Welfare Committee unanimously confirmed Gov. Tate Reeves’ appointment for executive director of the Mississippi Department of Human Services Wednesday.
The Atlantic hurricane season is already breaking records with several storms named so early this year. With parts of the U.S. battling the wrath of the coronavirus pandemic, experts urge you not to delay in preparing.
The flag that has flown over the Magnolia State for over 125 years is officially retired. Now, state leaders and residents are looking towards the future.
More often than not, it’s the young people who are the catalysts for change. That is the case now and it was the case 40-years ago when a simple act of defiance by an Ole Miss student set off a chain of events that led to the university disassociating itself with the confederate flag.
For the first summer since the league was founded in 1901, there will be no Minor League Baseball season.What seemed inevitable became official on Tuesday with President and CEO Pat O’Conner’s announcement.
A new baseball league could be making its way to the Pine Belt.Taylor Duncan’s Alternative Baseball Organization was founded in Atlanta, Georgia as a way to give teens/adults with autism and other disabilities the opportunity to play organized baseball.
Just as Gov. Tate Reeves signed the bill officially retiring the Mississippi state flag with a Confederate emblem on it, Forrest County removed the 1894 flags from county buildings.
The Mississippi Department of Transportation is working on millions of dollars worth of projects which state officials say are improving safety for motorists in the Pine Belt.
Now that the 1894 state flag, with its Confederate battle emblem, has retired, the old flag— supported by many— could be classified as a collector’s item, a piece of history.
