The Mississippi Department of Archives and History has approved more than $3 million in grants to 17 preservation and restoration projects throughout the state. Funding for the projects was made available through the Community Heritage Preservation Grant (CHPG) program, which was created by state lawmakers in 2001. “The legislature has.
COAHOMA COUNTY, Miss. — A grieving Mississippi family prepares to bury their 10-year-old son who was killed in a hail of bullets on Christmas Eve. Al’darius Nesbitt died when the car he and his brother were riding in was struck by gunfire in the Coahoma County town of Friars Point. His father, Terrance Readus, says […]
With the New Year’s holiday, came a couple of fires across the Magnolia State. In Quitman County, two homes in Marks caught blaze early Monday morning around 2 a.m. with both being completely burned to the ground. A vehicle was also reported to be on fire outside one of the.