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READING RETENTION-TRAINING Mississippi gets $2.4 million to improve reading teachers JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Mississippi will get $2.4 million to train veteran teachers to help other teachers improve reading instruction. The three-year grant from the […]

Education

Mississippi gets $2.4 million to improve reading teachers

(AP) Mississippi will get $2.4 million to subsidize summer programs for struggling readers and improve teachers’ reading instruction methods. The three-year grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, announced Tuesday, would be channeled through the National […]

Education

MDCC Health Science to graduate May 7

Dr. Wade Dowell will address Mississippi Delta Community College’s health science majors at their commencement ceremony, scheduled for Thurs., May 7 at 10 a.m. at the J.T. Hall Coliseum in Moorhead, Miss. The graduation and […]

Health

OLE MISS WOMEN’S BASKETBALL CAMPS

The Mississippi Link Newswire DAY CAMP June 1-4, 2015 for girls and boys grades K – 8th grade ELITE SKILLS  (Two sessions offered!) June 6, 2015 OR June 24, 2015 for girls grades 7 – 12th grade SHOOTOUT […]

Business

City of Jackson Weekly Update

 City of Jackson Moves Forward with Project to Pave 14 Streets This Summer The city will move forward with a project to pave 14 streets using federal Community Development Block Grant funding.  The Mayor and City Council recently […]

News

High school student accused of wrestling with officer

RIDGELAND, Miss. (AP) – A Ridgeland high school student has been accused of wrestling with an officer a few days after being accused of streaking. WLBT-TV (http://bit.ly/1GXlg0V ) reports 19-year-old Samuel Perry was arrested over the […]

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Names released in Pontotoc County slayings

ECRU, Miss. (AP) – Authorities have released the names of the two people found dead after an incident that led investigators to a home in the Shady Grove community outside Ecru on Sunday morning. Pontotoc […]