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09/04/2026

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09/04/2026

The nonprofit A Latte Opportunities provides job training for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities and will start its first training group of 10 interns on September 8.

Sunshine Sips will open in Gulfport on Oct. 1.

Read more: https://www.mississippifreepress.org/sunshine-sips-brews-new-opportunities-for-adults-with-disabilities-in-gulfport/

09/04/2026

Lumberton residents looking to turn their skills and products into small businesses will soon have a low-cost place to sell their work.

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/lumberton-flea-market-aims-to-help-small-vendors-grow/

09/04/2026

OPINION: Features Editor Nate Schumann rebukes the claim that higher education “brainwashes” students into becoming more liberal in their views. “No professor sat me down, passed me a printout of liberal views, and had me memorize and recite them in front of the class to earn a good grade,” he writes.

Read more: https://www.mississippifreepress.org/editors-note-education-is-not-indoctrination-college-simply-challenges-small-worldviews/

09/04/2026

Amanda Jones Tollison took her oath as a Mississippi Supreme Court Justice on Tuesday, putting three women on the court at the same time for the first time in state history and becoming only the seventh woman to serve on the Mississippi Supreme Court in its 208-year-long history.

Read more: https://www.mississippifreepress.org/amanda-tollison-takes-mississippi-supreme-court-oath-bringing-total-women-justices-to-3/

09/04/2026

“(Kent Wyatt) told me that the earliest years are always the toughest,” Delta State President Dan Ennis said of his mentor. “He said that when you have to deal with hard things, you do it quickly and thoroughly and you do it right."

Read more: https://www.mississippifreepress.org/person-of-the-day-kent-wyatts-role-as-president-emeritus-reflected-his-dedication-to-delta-state/

09/03/2026

OPINION: "For employers, the bottom rung is attractive to automate. AI can produce standard drafts, summaries, routine research and basic analysis at low marginal cost. A career-ladder stress test asks what happens next," Tsipursky writes.

Read more: https://www.mississippifreepress.org/opinion-mississippi-should-stress-test-the-career-ladder-before-committing-to-automation/

09/02/2026

Jackson-born jazz and folk singer Cassandra Wilson died in her Hinds County home Tuesday, Sept. 1. The Mississippi artist had a long career filled with honors and accolades, including two Grammy Award wins.

Read more: https://www.mississippifreepress.org/person-of-the-day-cassandra-wilson-jackson-born-jazz-artist-and-grammy-winner-dies-at-70/

09/02/2026

The police chief of Senatobia, a Mississippi city where an officer shot and killed 1-year-old Kohen Wiley in June while responding to a shoplifting call, was fired by city officials Tuesday after reports of racist text messages emerged.

Read more: https://www.mississippifreepress.org/senatobia-police-chief-fired-after-reports-on-racist-texts-in-wake-of-baby-kohen-wileys-killing/

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