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Ex-coach charged with sex with student

Authorities said a former assistant coach at two Rankin County schools has been charged with gratification of lust and of sexual battery. They said the charges are related to allegedly inappropriate contact with a student.

Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey said that 27-year-old Matthew Wilder had worked at McLaurin Attendance Center and Florence Middle School. […]

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Marine biologist McIlwain dead at 71

Thomas D. McIlwain, a longtime marine biologist, fishery scientist and educator in Mississippi, has died after a three-year battle with cancer. He was 71.

Officials with Bradford-O’Keefe Funeral Home say services are scheduled for 3 p.m. Wednesday at First Presbyterian Church of Ocean Springs. […]