/PRNewswire/ Representatives from Mississippi Power and Forrest County Agricultural High School held a ribbon-cutting ceremony as the first electric school.
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HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) Leaders of a Mississippi county are honoring a high school homecoming queen who gave her crown to a friend whose mother had just died of cancer. Forrest County Sheriff Charlie Sims presented Covington a citizenship award, and the county Board of Supervisors voted to pay her community college tuition.
Nyla Covington, the homecoming queen at Forrest County Agricultural High School in Mississippi, gave her crown to Brittany Walters, who just lost her mom.