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- Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala.,, speaks during a news conference on the border, Feb. 15, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Britt gave the Republican response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address Thursday, March 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)
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Katie Britt used decades-old example of rapes in Mexico as Republican attack on Biden border policy
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Sat,03/09/24-4:30PM , 629 Reads
The Republican senator who gave the party’s response to President Joe Biden's State of the Union address used a harrowing account o
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- Mississippi House Education Committee Chairman Rep. Loyd Roberson II, R-Starkville, left, speaks to committee Vice Chairman Rep. Kenneth McCarty, R-Hattiesburg, as he explains a bill that would replace the Mississippi Adequate Education Program (MAEP) during debate in the chamber, Wednesday, March 6, 2024, at the Mississippi Capitol in Jackson. The Mississippi House of Representatives passed the funding alternative to MAEP, called the Inspire Act, that proponents say is a simpler funding formula and more equitable to the school districts as compared to MAEP. The bill now goes to the Senate. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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Mississippi House votes to change school funding formula, but plan faces hurdles in the Senate
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Wed,03/06/24-5:44PM , 389 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi House voted Wednesday to set a new formula to calculate how much money the state will spend on public schools — a step toward abandoning a formula that has put generations of legislators under political pressure because they have fully funded it only two years since it was put into law in 1997.
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- A Civil War battlefield in Mississippi is taking steps to provide more information about Black history. (Feb. 29) (AP Video: Stephen Smith)
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Black soldiers are honored, name by name, at a Civil War battlefield
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Thu,02/29/24-9:47AM , 439 Reads
VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) — Thelma Sims Dukes grew up during the 1940s and ‘50s in a segregated Mississippi town steeped in Civil War history.
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- During his final week in office, Mississippi Republican Gov. Phil Bryant ponders a question in the state Capitol in Jackson, Miss., on, Jan. 8, 2020. Nancy New, who was convicted in 2022 in a welfare misspending case, said in a court filing Feb. 26, 2024, that Bryant told people in 2019, during his final weeks of office, that he had been offered a financial stake in a company that had received welfare money for its effort to develop a concussion drug. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
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Mississippi ex-governor expected stake in firm that got welfare money, says woman convicted in fraud
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Wed,02/28/24-3:26PM , 529 Reads
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Former Mississippi Gov.
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Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Today's Weather

Mccomb, 39648, MS

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Current Temp

62°F

Mostly Cloudy

Chance of Rain: 30%
Max Temp: 76°F
Min Temp: 60°F
Feels Like: 63°F
Dew Point: 59°F
Humidity: 87%
Sunrise: 6:31 AM
Sunset: 5:57 PM

Wind Speed: 5 to 10 mph
Wind Direction: SW
Wind Gust: 18 mph
Sky Cover: 62%
Visibility: 10 mi
Dew Point: 59°F
Moon Rise: 12:58 PM
Moon Set: 3:02 AM

A chance of rain showers before 3pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy. High near 76, with temperatures falling to around 74 in the afternoon. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.

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