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L.A.’s Coolest Street Art Gallery Is Hidden In DTLA’s 2nd Highest Building – And Its Bursting With Angeleno Pride
Courtesy of Silverstein Properties. Mural by Sophie Mazzaro. One of the coolest street art mural galleries in Los Angeles is tucked away in the city’s second-highest building! The US Bank Tower isn’t just home to the highest restaurant west of the...

Florida State trending for 2026 IOL Jakobe Green following decommitment from Mississippi State
Niceville (Fla.) three-star interior offensive lineman Jakobe Green has decommitted from Mississippi State, he announced on Monday evening via social media. Pledged to the Bulldogs since the beginning of February, Green is now back on the board,...

Businesses adjust to seafood labeling law taking effect July 1
BILOXI — With Mississippi’s new seafood labeling law set to take effect July 1, restaurant owners and seafood sellers are trying to understand how to comply — and what could happen if they don’t. House Bill 602 requires all seafood and crawfish...

Checking in on New England fisheries 25 Years after ‘The Perfect Storm’ movie
Stephanie Otts, University of Mississippi Twenty-five years ago, “The Perfect Storm” roared into movie theaters. The disaster flick, starring George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg, was a riveting, fictionalized account of commercial swordfishing in New...
Introducing Amrize
It’s not every week that a ‘new’ cement producer gains hold of nearly 30Mt/yr of production capacity.1 Back in 2022, a few readers studying the North America pages of the year’s Global Cement Directory probably wondered “Where’s Lafarge gone?”...

Mississippi County Judge Alan Nelson on Infrastructure, Innovation & the Rise of Mississippi County
Nelson has directed historic preservation renovations of the century-old Blytheville and Osceola courthouses. (Provided) John Alan Nelson has served as Mississippi County judge since 2018. He’s a licensed pilot and lifelong advocate for regional...

Government Control & US Steel (Editorial)
A Big River Steel employee looks on at the plant's electric arc furnace. (Courtesy U.S. Steel) The Trump administration’s recent approval of Nippon Steel’s takeover of U.S. Steel includes a provision that gives the U.S. government unusual control...

Mississippi Lottery Mississippi Match 5, Cash 3 results for June 22, 2025
The Mississippi Lottery offers several draw games for those aiming to win big. Here’s a look at June 22, 2025, results for each game: Winning Mississippi Match 5 numbers from June 22 drawing 01-08-14-17-24 Check Mississippi Match 5 payouts and...
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Hoover Sauce Is Mississippi's Best-Kept Saucy Secret
This year, Mississippi’s Hoover Sauce celebrates 50 years of making mouths in the Magnolia State—and beyond—happy. But 10 years ago, when creator Hoover Lee stopped producing the mahogany-hued, salty, sweet, Asian-influenced marinade, the phone in...

SWAC Football Media Day to showcase top student-athletes in Birmingham
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The Southwestern Athletic Conference has announced the student-athletes set to participate in the league’s annual SWAC Football Media Day on Wednesday, July 16 at 10 a.m. CST at the Sheraton-Birmingham. All twelve SWAC head...

Tuscaloosa homicide suspect’s extradition from Mississippi could take a week or more
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (WBRC) - Tuscaloosa Violent Crimes Task Force investigators say it could be a week or so before suspect Tyshawn Laquan Thompson will be extradited back to Tuscaloosa. Authorities say the 22-year-old was arrested Friday night near...
Most Mississippi leaders backing Trump Iran decision. See what was said
Mississippi's conservative leadership is sticking by President Donald Trump's decision to militarily engage with Iran after several Iranian nuclear development sites were bombed over the weekend. Mississippi's two U.S. Sens., Cindy Hyde Smith and...

Linde To Invest $400M For Industrial Gas Facility In Louisiana
Linde, a global industrial gases and engineering company, is investing more than $400 million to build the largest air separation unit (ASU) in the Mississippi River corridor on the West Bank of Ascension Parish, Louisiana. The unit will supply...

Linde to supply industrial gases to Blue Point Number One ammonia plant
June 23, 2025 | By Mary Bailey Linde plc (Dublin, Ireland) announced it has signed a new long-term agreement with Blue Point Number One, a joint venture between CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (Deerfield, Ill.), JERA Co., Inc. (Tokyo), and Mitsui &...

‘See something, say something’: Political expert talks local security amid Iran tension
DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) - From sporting events to places of worship to concerts, top security officials in major cities across the U.S. are on high alert for potential attacks from Iran. Even the Department of Homeland Security says we should be...

Biamby, Brown to Represent Bulldogs at SWAC Football Media Day
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. | Linebacker Dimitris Biamby and quarterback Cornelious Brown IV will represent Alabama A&M University at the 2025 Southwestern Athletic Conference annual SWAC Football Media Day at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, July 16 at the...

Mississippi lawmakers respond after U.S. strikes Iranian nuclear sites
JACKSON, Miss. (WLOX) - Following the news of a U.S. airstrike on nuclear sites in Iran on Saturday, state politicians are giving their thoughts on the matter. RELATED: US inserts itself into Israel’s war with Iran, striking 3 Iranian nuclear...

2024 H-1B petitions: Approvals for employers classified under Utilities industry across SC Mississippi News publication area
Ur Mendoza Jaddou, Director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (left) and Jennifer B. Higgins, Deputy Director. | https://www.uscis.gov/about-us/organization/leadershipUr Mendoza Jaddou, Director of the U.S. Citizenship and...

2024 H-1B petitions: Approvals for employers classified under Health Care and Social Assistance industry across WC Mississippi News publication area
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Texas Joins Six Other States in Banning Lab-Grown ‘Meat’ Products
New law signed by Gov. Abbott prohibits sale of cell-cultured protein, effective Sept. 1 By yourNEWS Media Newsroom AUSTIN — Texas has officially outlawed the manufacture and sale of lab-grown meat, joining a growing list of states that have...