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The National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center has issued a tornado watch for portions of Eastern Arkansas and Northern and . . .

Magnolia Mornings: March 16, 2026

Important state and national stories, market and business news, sports and entertainment, delivered in quick-hit fashion In Mississippi 1. Ingalls . . .

Higher education officials consider top picks for JSU’s next president

Officials tasked with selecting and naming the next Jackson State University president plan to choose three top candidates next week . . .

Eller declares victory in Mississippi’s 2nd Congressional District GOP Primary

The latest reporting shows Eller up 50.9% with a margin of 440 votes. His campaign said Friday that it is . . .

Speaker says House will review Senate PBM changes “through the lens of seeking relief for independent pharmacists”

Speaker Jason White said the House’s initial concern is the removal of the anti-steering language, which has long been requested . . .

Mississippi counties included in the tornado watch include Alcorn, Attala, Benton, Bolivar, Calhoun, Carroll, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay, Coahoma, Desoto, Grenada, Holmes, Humphreys, Issaquena, Itawamba, Lafayette, Lee, Leflore, Marshall, Monroe, Montgomery, Oktibbeha, Panola, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Quitman, Sharkey, Sunflower, Tallahatchie, Tate, Tippah, Tishomingo, Tunica, Union, Washington, Webster, Yalobusha and Yazoo.

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Super Bowl gifts are super wrong
Wed,03/11/26-2:26PM , 1,335 Reads 11,224 Statewide
Mississippians who believe in good government should take no comfort that House Speaker Jason White’s freebie trip to the 2025 Super Bowl in New Orleans was financed by a utility monopoly rather than, as initially suspected, a sports gambling giant.
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Reduced, morphed, flood control plan moves a bit closer
Wed,03/11/26-3:50PM , 831 Reads 5,525 Statewide
Keith Turner, an attorney with Jackson law firm Watkins & Eager gave the Rotary Club of North Jackson an update on Jackson’s flood control projects.
This is the one that started out as John McGowan’s Two Lakes, then became One Lake and is now called the “Pearl River Federal Risk Management Project.”
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St. Stanislaus star Max Baria, with ball, grabs a rebound over Booneville's Elijah Dukes during the Boys Class 3A semifinal game, Wednesday, March 4, 2026, at the Mississippi Coliseum in Jackson. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today

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‘He saved my life.’ High school basketball star Max Baria has filled a void for his family
By RICK CLEVELAND - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Sun,03/15/26-4:40PM , 757 Reads 4,603 Statewide
Max Baria, a 17-year-old high school senior from Bay St. Louis, is a good-looking, soft-spoken, highly intelligent young man, who emerged this basketball season as one of the best high school players in Mississippi.
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Governor Reeves doesn’t rule out special session to tackle teacher pay raise, expanded education freedom
By JEREMY PITTARI - MAGNOLIA TRIBUNE
Thu,03/12/26-1:16PM , 617 Reads 5,931 Statewide
The governor did add that there is still time in the session to get those things done, saying that nothing is dead in the Capitol until it is “dead, dead, dead.”
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Alena Crear, 5, looks around as state leaders speak during a press conference on affordable child care and tax relief for family necessities Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026, at the Capitol in Jackson. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today

Senate approves funding for Mississippi’s child care crisis. Will it survive the House?

Advocates say state leaders must address Mississippi’s 11-month child care crisis but warn the $15 million would only alleviate a fraction of roughly 20,000 households on a waitlist.