A tornado touched down in Hattiesburg Sunday evening and swept through the University of Southern Mississippi campus, Ole Miss officials are raising awareness on campus of how to respond to emergency weather conditions. Courtesy Ole Miss Communications The University of Mississippi’s Crisis Action Team was formed in 2008 and is responsible for monitoring possible threats...
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CNN, NBC, CBS and FOX News have projected that President Obama has won California, Washington, Hawaii, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Oregon, New Mexico and Ohio. This confirms that President Obama has won the election. The only states that remain to be decided are Virginia, Florida, Nevada, Colorado and Alaska and the president is leading in three of the five states. President...
Various news organizations have called Mississippi's Senate seat. Roger Wicker will remain Mississippi's junior United States Senator with 14 percent of precincts reporting. Wicker is beating challenger Albert Gore 57 to 41 percent. District one's House seat has also been called. With 22 percent of precincts reporting incumbent Republican...
Mississippi has the highest teen pregnancy rate once again, according to state data released on Tuesday. For 2010, Mississippi reported 55 births for every 1,000 teen girls aged 15-19. That number is 60 percent higher than the average birth rate for the whole country. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that although Mississippi's teen birth...
