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Mississippi, national leaders commemorate 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in Gulfport
WLOX - Mississippi
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August 29, 2025
GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - Friday morning, on the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi and national leaders gathered at Jones Park to hold a commemoration ceremony. Officials, service members, and residents gathered under the Barksdale...
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Why the Slugburger Is Mississippi’s Best-Kept Secret
Food & Wine
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Walk into Borroum’s Drug Store in Corinth, Mississippi, and you’ll find all the trappings of a bygone-era pharmacy: swivel stools, a soda fountain, and a menu of lunch-counter classics like cheeseburgers and milkshakes. Look a little closer and...
2nd Chance Mississippi to Host 2025 Fundraiser
Delta Business Journal - Mississippi
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August 29, 2025
2nd Chance MS will host their 2025 “Party on the Green” fundraiser in Oxford on Thursday, September 11. 2nd Chance MS’ mission is to promote and support adult education and workforce training for lower income Mississippi adults. The organization...
Katrina’s Other Coast: Mississippi 20 Years After the Storm
Milwaukee Community Journal - Wisconsin
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August 29, 2025
When Mississippi issued an evacuation order for its southernmost residents ahead of Hurricane Katrina, Tanya Plummer, 51, wasn’t convinced. “You know we get rain all the time down here,” said Plummer, a Wiggins resident at the time. “Every week...
Kentucky among states ordered to strip gender ideology from sex education materials
West Kentucky Star
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By Mark Maynard - Kentucky Today Aug. 29, 2025 | 11:09 AM | FRANKFORT Kentucky is one of 46 states and territories ordered to remove all references to gender ideology from federally funded sex education programs within the next 60 days or risk...
MONA presents Art After Dark: Omaha's Gilded Age, Trans-Mississippi, International Exposition of 1898
Central Nebraska Today
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Artwork on display at the Museum of Nebraska Art, (Brian Neben, Central Nebraska Today) KEARNEY — The Museum of Nebraska Art (MONA) presents Art After Dark: Omaha’s Gilded Age and the Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition of 1898,...
7 Things: Ainsworth accurately describes motive for killer of kids in church; Newsom desperately seeking Alabama’s attention; and more …
Yellowhammer News - Alabama
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August 29, 2025
7. Secretary of State Marco Rubio requested that President Donald Trump ban fall Saturday weddings to ensure fans can watch college football games; Democrats now insist that college football is terrible and people should only get married during...
ICE arrests more immigrants in jails than in communities
El País
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August 29, 2025
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is detaining more immigrants who are already in custody than on the streets of major U.S. cities. This trend is reflected in figures from the Deportation Data Project, which indicate that from late January...
Katrina: 20 years later – Stories from central Mississippi
Breezy - Mississippi
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August 29, 2025
On Aug. 29, 2005 (20 years ago today), Hurricane Katrina made landfall on along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. At the time, the storm was the worst natural disaster in American history. In this story are reports, images, and audio leading up to and...
Wyoming Ordered To Remove Gender Ideology From Classroom
Wake Up Wyoming
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August 29, 2025
The Trump administration ordered 46 states and territories, INCLUDING WYOMING, to remove gender ideology from their sex ed materials. If they don't, they will face the termination of federal Personal Responsibility Education Program (PREP)...
The long recovery on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, 'ground zero' for Hurricane Katrina
Little Rock Public Radio - Arkansas
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August 29, 2025
Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour stands before a wall-sized satellite image of Hurricane Katrina as it headed for landfall on Aug. 29, 2005. "The eye came in right there over the Pearl River, which is the boundary between Louisiana and...
Guest column: Katrina's education reforms took the schools away from the communities
The Advocate - Louisiana
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August 29, 2025
On the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, we believe that as two survivors of Katrina and current higher education students who left Louisiana to pursue education, it’s important to help people understand what happened to our schools after the...
Mississippi Declares Public Health Emergency Over Infant Mortality
Forbes
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Mississippi high infant mortality rate has led the state to declare a public health emergency. AFP via Getty Images Mississippi declared a public health emergency for the first time in recent history, sounding the alarm on the highest infant...
Kentucky among states ordered to strip gender ideology from sex ed materials
Murray Ledger & Times - Kentucky
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FRANKFORT – (KT) Kentucky is one of 46 states and territories ordered to remove all references to gender ideology from federally funded sex education programs within the next 60 days or risk losing millions in federal dollars. The directive comes...
Are Red States Leading the Way on Education Reform?
Governing
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August 29, 2025
Pandemic disruptions worsened a long-term trend of declining student achievement. Federal leadership has been lacking for the last decade, says Michael Petrilli, the president of a prominent education think tank. State-level approaches to reform...
Prayer service at Biloxi church remembers immigrants’ roles in restoration after Katrina
WLOX - Mississippi
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August 29, 2025
BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - While there were many events remembering the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on Thursday, one group focused on the immigrants who helped rebuild the Coast. On Thursday evening, a prayer service at Our Lady of Fatima...
Mississippi church stunned by Katrina repays NC volunteers after Helene
Baptist Press - Tennessee
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August 28, 2025
GULFPORT, Miss. (BP) – The people of First Baptist Church are very familiar with what it feels like to have your world swept away. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina took a hard right in the Gulf and barreled north, eventually making landfall along...
Mississippi Reports 4.1 Percentage Point Drop in Alcohol Use Since 2013 Peak
Laurel Leader-Call - Mississippi
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Alcohol consumption in the United States has shifted noticeably in recent years, with a growing share of adults choosing to drink less—or not at all. Public health experts point to a combination of factors driving this trend, including increased...
In Waveland, Mississippi, Katrina’s Legacy Looms Large 20 Years Later
Mississippi Free Press
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August 28, 2025
WAVELAND, Miss.—When Beverley Coleman thinks about her home in Waveland, Mississippi, before Hurricane Katrina, she remembers the trees: towering oaks with full canopies that flanked her single-lane street and continued down to the beach several...
How the Horrors of Hurricane Katrina Radicalized Young People Into Climate Activists
Teen Vogue
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August 28, 2025
Chasity Hunter was six when Hurricane Katrina hit. She remembers specifically how high the water rose in their home—so much so that her mother, aunt, uncle, grandmother, and three younger siblings had to start climbing the stairs in their public...