Mississippi Today
The basketball big time for Coach Michael Smith is right there in Booneville
Michael Smith has brought big-time coaching and winning to Booneville. His high school basketball teams have won 765 games and 11 state championships over 22 years.
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10mChrista Pike is alive a day after Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute her, her lawyers say
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6mFarm worker, 24, dies of heat exposure in North Mississippi
A North Mississippi farm worker died of extreme heat exposure in early September amid one of the hottest summers in recent state history.
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2mTrump nominates Jackson-based lawyer Todd Butler to federal appeals court
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