News

5 children hurt in hayride accident

News Briefs From Across The State By Monica Land Students were at year-end celebration Five children at Lake Cormorant Elementary School received minor cuts and bruises in a hayride accident during an end-of-the-year celebration at […]

Education

Former education leader dies at 86

LAKE – (AP) E.E. “Tad” Thrash, who led Mississippi’s higher education system for 19 years as it struggled with desegregation issues related to historic black colleges, died Tuesday, May 2. He was 86. Officials with […]

Events

May 19 Is Hepatitis Testing Day

Special To The Mississippi Link JACKSON – During May’s annual observance of Hepatitis Awareness Month, May 19 will be recognized as the first-ever Hepatitis Testing Day in the United States. The Action Plan for the […]

Business

Tourism reaps billions of dollars for Mississippi

Special To The Mississippi Link JACKSON – Tourism in Mississippi, the fifth-largest private sector employer and one of the largest export industries, continues to positively impact the state’s economy. The industry generated expenditures of $5.97 […]