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Mississippi Town to Welcome Home WWII Soldier Lost in 1945
FORT KNOX, Ky. – The remains of U.S. Army Pfc. Charles N. Milam, 20, killed during World War II, will be interred Oct. 6, in Mississippi Veterans Cemetery, Newton, Mississippi. Ott and Lee Funeral Home will coordinate graveside services preceding...

‘I want my money back’: Mississippi man buys 3 appliances from Home Depot, pays for installation. Then he comes home and looks in the kitchen
When you pay for appliance delivery and installation, you expect to walk into a working kitchen. A Mississippi Home Depot customer, however, says his package deal delivered the boxes, a headache, and not much else. TikTok user @user1736554374761...

Empty the Shelters campaign begins at Humane Society of South Mississippi
GULFPORT, Miss. (WXXV)- The Humane Society of South Mississippi kicked off its Empty the Shelters campaign Wednesday, coinciding with National Black Dog Day. That is a day dedicated to raising awareness about black dogs, who are often overlooked...

New Pipeline projects for Mississippi discussed at Meridian Rotary
Energy Infrastructure Company Kinder Morgan, discussed their new pipeline projects known as the Mississippi Crossing Project, and South System Expansion 4 pipeline project, which will overlap in Lauderdale County. “It’s a 1.7-billion-dollar...

Riverview Companies opens repair yard in Morgan City
October 1, 2025 Riverview Companies, Bellevue, Iowa, today announced Riverview Marine Repair, a new repair facility in Morgan City, La. The move marks the company’s first shipyard on the Gulf Coast. A company press release said the yard is...

Mississippi Lottery Mississippi Match 5, Cash 3 results for Sept. 29, 2025
The Mississippi Lottery offers several draw games for those aiming to win big. Here’s a look at Sept. 29, 2025, results for each game: Winning Mississippi Match 5 numbers from Sept. 29 drawing 01-07-11-27-28 Check Mississippi Match 5 payouts and...

Ohio River: A Lifeline of American Agriculture
Introduction The Ohio River has played a crucial role in shaping American agriculture and commerce. Stretching nearly a thousand miles, this historic waterway has been central to trade, transportation, and irrigation, supporting communities and...
This Big Egg Company Just Held Its First-Ever Earnings Conference Call. Here's Why.
Getty Images Big egg company Cal-Maine hosted its first-ever earnings conference call today. Cal-Maine hosted a first-quarter earnings call Wednesday, the first in the corporation's roughly 30-year history. The egg giant adopted a Wall Street...

Humane Society of South Mississippi holds 'Empty the Shelter' adoption event
Welcome to October! It was another warm day, but we’ll cool down nicely into the mid to upper 60s by Thursday morning. A few isolated showers can’t be ruled out completely. It's going to become breezy by the end of the week. We've also got a...

Construction Jobs With the Fastest Wage Growth in Mississippi
Despite signs of slowing demand, the U.S. construction industry continues to face a significant labor shortage. The Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) estimates that the industry will require 439,000 additional workers in 2025 to meet...

Kinder Morgan’s Mississippi Pipeline Project
MERIDIAN, Miss. (WTOK) -The Kinder Morgan Company is building a natural gas pipeline through 58 counties in Mississippi and one county in western Alabama. This pipeline will transport natural gas and will supply natural gas to major utility...

National Folk Festival Comes to Mississippi
Jackson hand quilter Stephany Brown was 24 when her 74-year-old grandmother taught her the art form she practices today. Blues singer Mealody Angel performing at the 2023 Montana Folk Festival. Photo Credit: Remsberg, Inc., courtesy NCTA Archives....

Packer Fastener Adds Mississippi Distribution Hub
Wisconsin fastener and industrial supply distributor Packer Fastener announced Tuesday that it has officially opened a new distribution hub in Mississippi. Company officials said the facility in Pearl, a suburb of Jackson, would support commercial...

Food Network says this free treat is the best fair food in Mississippi
Everyone has a favorite fair food, and some states have iconic treats the area is known for. You might be thinking of carnival standards like cotton candy, funnel cake, giant corn dogs, sausage hot off the griddle, burgers, candy apples or snow...

New England schools are failing. Time to take a lesson from Louisiana and Mississippi.
“Our school started last year,” Scherer says, and these fifth-graders “know things that I didn’t think that they were going to.” The curriculum came late for these students; they had already missed years of critical phonics-based instruction. But...

Here’s Why American Industry Needs a Coast-to-Coast Rail Merger
Imagine if airlines couldn’t fly nonstop between the East and West coasts. Instead, all flights would have to stop in the middle of the country so customers could catch another airline’s plane for the last half of the trip. That would be a...

Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ:PRGS) Q3 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ:PRGS) Q3 2025 Earnings Call Transcript September 29, 2025 Progress Software Corporation beats earnings expectations. Reported EPS is $1.5, expectations were $1.3. Operator: Hello, and thank you for standing...

Suicide or Lynching? Mississippi Officials Insist Trey Reed’s Death Is Nothing Suspicious.
Society / October 1, 2025 His family says he left for college happy and healthy. Soon after, he was found hanging from a fruit tree on campus. Yet local officials are refusing calls to investigate further. Ad Policy (Mykola Romanovskyy / Getty...

Cotton no longer king in Mississippi
When it came to planting cotton this year in May and June, farmer Matt Brignac realized his roughly 2,800 acres of farmland in Oktibbeha and Lowndes counties were too wet for his usual even split of corn and cotton. So instead Brignac leaned a...

Who buys $3 million homes? What company was fined $125,000 for gambling violations? How long do felons serve in Iowa?
Civic Skinny By CITYVIEW staff 10/1/2025 Ever wonder who buys those $3 million homes? Wonder no more. Here are six homes with some of the highest sale prices we found this year. Two sold for $3 million. Two were in West Des Moines. Two were in...