The Penthouse Club, a Baton Rouge strip club, has been approved for $1.1 million from a federal grant program tied to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report published by the Baton Rouge Business Report.
Mississippi Power volunteers spent a hot and humid Wednesday making a walking trail "enchanted" again. The one mile Enchanted Nature Trail at Henderson Point sustained extensive damage from past storms.
Increasing cases of COVID-19 brought on by the Delta variant prompted the Mississippi Association of Educators’ (MAE) President Erica Jones to send a letter to the governor Monday, requesting that he reconsider his stance on masks in schools.
Bryan Thompson, 43, is married to Audrey. He has a 6-year-old son named Endymion. He works for an IT company from home. He says he’s otherwise a healthy man, but he is unvaccinated against COVID-19.
Multiple residents went before the Biloxi City Council Tuesday afternoon to voice their concerns over multiple shootings that have happened off Division Street in the areas of Holley Street and Fountain Lane.
The mayor said he and the board have not discussed requiring city employees to get vaccinated or have weekly tests, but he is very concerned about the potential impact on the city.
Teachers and students from Lyman, Harrison Central, and Orange Grove elementary schools will now reside at North Gulfport. Those teachers are now getting settled in their new space before the first day of school.
With South Mississippi businesses are slowly filling vacancies, recruiters with the Mississippi National Guard said they haven’t seen issues with interested people coming through the door.
Despite a new guideline from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday, Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves still does not want to mandate masks in schools.
The updated CDC guidelines call for indoor masks for teachers, staff, students and visitors to schools, regardless of vaccination status, in parts of the U.S. where the coronavirus is surging.
All the heavy rain we've seen this summer has also caused problems for many local shrimpers. Lower salinity levels in the Mississippi Sound are ruining what was supposed to be a good summer on the water.
Researchers at the University of Mississippi Medical Center worked with a multi-institution team to get closer to that answer. Published online July 23 in the journal Cell, the paper shows how the response of different nasal cells to the early stages of infection may predict the progression of COVID-19.
The project, Graduating a Healthcare Workforce, will be implemented in its first year through an initial investment of $280,000 at seven colleges across Mississippi.
In hospitals across the state, roughly one in ten people hospitalized with COVID-19 had been vaccinated, a statistic that may lead some to believe the vaccine doesn’t work, though health experts stress the opposite is actually true.
Temperatures are rising and many people are finding a place to cool down, especially as parents wrap up the final week before sending their children back to school.
