Defense Department grant puts state-raised food in schools
DESOTO COUNTY — Either by fork or fingers, the second- and third-grade students of Chickasaw Elementary in Olive Branch dived into some Magnolia-state raised blueberries and cantaloupes as a part of a...
View ArticleEducation officials want emergency declaration in Oktibbeha County
OKTIBBEHA COUNTY — The Mississippi Board of Education (MBE) determined that an extreme emergency situation exists in the Oktibbeha County School District. Acting on a recommendation from the...
View ArticlePrivate early-education group lobbies lawmakers for funds
JACKSON — A private group is asking the state for $5 million to continue efforts to improve childcare and education for preschool children. Mississippi Building Blocks works to make preschoolers ready...
View ArticleState sees first decline in adolescent obesity in 10 years
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Mississippi’s obesity rate in high school students (grades 9-12) has dropped by 12.7 percent, knocking the state’s teens out of the number one spot down to number five in obesity...
View ArticlePediatricians supporting the expansion of Medicaid
JACKSON — The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the largest professional organization of pediatricians in the United States and in Mississippi, favors Medicaid expansion. AAP announced its position...
View ArticleHospital opens Pediatric Surgery Center; claims only one in state
FLOWOOD — River Oaks Hospital has opened what it claims is the state’s only free standing Pediatric Surgery Center in Flowood. The Pediatric Surgery Center is specifically designed to perform same-day...
View ArticleAfter 30 years, children’s clothing business relocating to Texas
NATCHEZ — Kelly’s Kids, which has operated its children’s clothing operation in Mississippi and Louisiana for 30 years, will move to Texas in 2014. Kelly’s Kids products are sold by representatives who...
View ArticleSurvey ranks state 49th in U.S. for well-being of children
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — A new national survey ranks Mississippi 49th overall for the well-being of children. The Anne E. Casey Foundation has done its Kids Count survey 24 years, and this is the first...
View ArticleAIDS trial group inspired by curing of baby at UMMC
JACKSON — An international group devoted to pediatric AIDS treatment is taking on a long-term global trial in hopes of replicating the success a University of Mississippi Medical Center researcher...
View ArticleIt’s not child’s play — First LEGO League holds qualifying competitions
The tension in the room was high as a team attempted to get an emergency vehicle into a disaster area to tend to survivors. With the clock ticking, the team’s first three attempts ended in failure —...
View ArticleBryant protests immigrant children being housed in state
JACKSON — Mississippi has received fewer than 200 of the unaccompanied immigrant children who crossed the U.S. border and were released to sponsors so far this year, but the war of words over such...
View ArticleCelebrities can lift spirits, create buzz
It’s not uncommon to see photos or footage of celebrities, athletes or representatives of organizations visiting children in the hospital. The special guests go to meet with the young patients, deliver...
View ArticleChurch leaders to ask Bryant to keep sponsoring program for children of refugees
JACKSON — Catholic, Methodist and Episcopal leaders are scheduled to meet this morning with Gov. Phil Bryant, asking Mississippi to keep sponsoring a 34-year-old program that resettles children with...
View ArticleBryant’s position on refugee children unchanged after meeting with religious...
JACKSON — Gov. Phil Bryant’s decision to block additional legal child refugees from being resettled in Mississippi hasn’t changed following a meeting with Catholic, Methodist and Episcopal leaders....
View ArticleDr. Hannah Gay to get honorary degree
Dr. Hannah Gay, professor of pediatrics at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree at William Carey University’s commencement on Aug. 9. Gay...
View ArticleReport: Mississippi has worst child poverty rate in U.S.
ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — The Children’s Defense Fund analysis of new 2013 state data released by the U.S. Census Bureau reveals child poverty rates remain at record high levels, and Mississippi leads the...
View ArticleReport: State should be spending more to keep kids tobacco-free
A national ranking has been released that does not have Mississippi at the bottom, but the report finds the state should rank higher. Fifteen years after the 1998 state tobacco settlement, Mississippi...
View ArticleHouse could reverse vote pausing third grade reading mandate
JACKSON — Some Mississippi lawmakers staged a brief revolt Tuesday against plans to fail thousands of poorly reading third graders this spring, but that movement is already melting away. A number of...
View ArticleBILL CRAWFORD — Authorities treat parents differently for hot car deaths
The black father whose eight month old daughter died after being left for hours in a hot car in Grenada was charged with second-degree murder and thrown in jail. The white mother whose two year old...
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