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Mississippi Lottery Mississippi Match 5, Cash 3 results for Aug. 20, 2025
The Clarion Ledger - Mississippi
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The Mississippi Lottery offers several draw games for those aiming to win big. Here’s a look at Aug. 20, 2025, results for each game: Winning Mississippi Match 5 numbers from Aug. 20 drawing 06-12-15-17-33 Check Mississippi Match 5 payouts and...
$6.5 million Osceola Harbor expansion necessary, business leaders say
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette
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August 22, 2025
A recent federal request for funding to expand Osceola Harbor would help alleviate what locals describe as gridlock at the Mississippi River port. Republican Rep. Rick Crawford, of Jonesboro, submitted project requests to congressional...
Memphis Locals Raise Health Concerns as Business Group Pushes Musk Data Center
Truthout
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August 22, 2025
Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If you value what we do, please support our work with a donation. This story was originally published by ProPublica. This article was produced for ProPublica’s...
Columbian mammoth fossil unearthed in Mississippi
Yahoo News
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NEWTON COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) – An 18-year-old fossil hunter in Mississippi recently discovered a Columbian mammoth fossil. According to the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), Waylen Miller has found numerous marine fossils on...
Supreme Court Oks Social Media Law In Mississippi
MENAFN
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August 22, 2025
(MENAFN- Investor Brand Network) The Supreme Court has allowed a new Mississippi law requiring age verification on social media sites to go into effect . The decision came after the court declined to block a lower court ruling that had supported...
MSU, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology strengthen global research partnership
Mississippi State University
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August 22, 2025
Contact: James Carskadon ATLANTA, Ga.—Mississippi State University and the Korea Institute of Industrial Technology, known as KITECH, are advancing their longstanding relationship with a renewed set of agreements designed to drive joint research,...
NeighborWorks Training Institute brings $4.2M economic boost to New Orleans
New Orleans City Business - Louisiana
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August 22, 2025
KEY TAKEAWAYS: 1,500+ housing and community leaders attend NeighborWorks NTI in New Orleans Event injects an estimated $4.2 million into the local economy Symposium focuses on generational wealth, tangled property titles, and disaster planning...
Mississippi Ordered To Redraw State Supreme Court Election Map
NewsOne
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August 20, 2025
A federal judge has ordered Mississippi to redraw its Supreme Court election map, finding that the current map unfairly weakens the voting power of Black voters. On Aug. 19, U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock ruled that the map, which has been in...
ACLU sues West Virginia governor over sending National Guard to DC
Washington Examiner
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August 22, 2025
Morrisey was one of several red-state governors to send National Guard troops to the capital to supplement President Donald Trump’s crackdown on crime in Washington, D.C. The move from the deep-red state is being challenged by its chapter of the...
Housing starts lead the Quikrete Industry Dashboard
HBS Dealer
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Week 34, 2025 was absolutely jam-packed with news and events that are reverberating throughout the worlds of hardware, lumber and building supply. Right on the heels of Home Depot reporting its Q2 results (which revealed modest sales gains and a...
Local emergency alert systems in question as media agency closes
The Missoula Current - Montana
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August 22, 2025
Jennifer Shutt WASHINGTON (States Newsroom) — The Corporation for Public Broadcasting will no longer administer a grant program that has so far provided millions of dollars to local television and radio stations to upgrade the equipment they use...
Mississippi’s Ban on Diversity Programs in Public Schools Will Remain Blocked From Taking Effect, Judge Rules
Mississippi Free Press
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August 20, 2025
Mississippi’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in public schools remains blocked after a federal judge granted the plaintiffs’ request for a preliminary injunction in an Aug. 18 decision. The U.S. District Court for the Southern...
Risky Business: Men’s Health Behaviors Take a Toll
News Blaze
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August 22, 2025
In the United States, women live significantly longer than men by an average of 5.3 years. While this statistic may seem like a biological inevitability, a recent study conducted by the experts at J. Price McNamara reveals that the gap is largely...
Don’t know much about history? That’s OK with President Trump
The Mining Journal - Michigan
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Clarence Page, syndicated columnist Of the 21 museums under the umbrella of the Smithsonian Institution, one in particular seems recently to have rubbed President Donald Trump the wrong way. “The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL,” Trump fulminated in...
GOP governors are sending troops to DC. Their states have 10 cities with higher crime rates
CNN
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August 22, 2025
Follow Washington, DC — At least ten cities in states whose Republican governors are deploying National Guard troops to Washington, DC, had higher rates of violent crime or homicide than DC last year, according to a CNN review of FBI data....
Science The Clarion Ledger Rare black moon rises over Mississippi tonight, but you won't be able to see it. Here's why
Yahoo News
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A black moon will rise over Mississippi tonight, but you won't be able to see it. This is also one of the final nights for the Perseid meteor shower in 2025, so if you're hoping for a dark night sky to see a few shooting stars, this is your best...
Governor announces funding for fairs, livestock shows
The Sun Times - Arkansas
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Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and the Arkansas Department of Agriculture Tuesday announced more than $1.4 million in funding to support Arkansas’ local fairs and livestock shows. The funding – awarded through the Arkansas Department of Agriculture’s...
Governor Ron DeSantis Posthumously Awards Medal of Freedom to Five Florida Icons
Governor of Florida
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Today, Governor Ron DeSantis presented five iconic Floridians with a posthumous award of the Governor’s Medal of Freedom, one of the highest honors in the state of Florida. These Floridians—Daniel Robert “Bob” Graham, Kenneth...
Position Preview: Looking at Mississippi State’s safeties for 2025
The Dispatch - Mississippi
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August 22, 2025
The Dispatch continues its overview of Mississippi State’s roster by shifting focus to the unit that bore much of the blame for last season’s shortcomings: the defense. The Bulldogs were statistically one of the worst defenses in all of Division I...
Get Ahead of Property Tax and Business License Compliance
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