Jackson Jambalaya

 Annie Oeth authored the following press release for UMC.
As operations director of Crossroads Ministries in Canton, Rena Pafford encourages women participating in the post-prison nonprofit to apply for free cancer screenings at the University of Mississippi Medical Center during See, Test and Treat. In 20...

 State Bean Counter Shad White issued the following statement.
Today State Auditor Shad White announced that Rebekah Turner, former Accounts Receivables Clerk for the City of Natchez, has pleaded guilty to one count of Embezzlement.
Turner took cash from deposits made to her office by other city departments and converted that money to her own personal use....

 Will he or won't he? U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate gave the intervenor Poor People's Assembly a chance to challenge JXN Water's proposed rate increase but the intervenors missed the deadline Friday.
The Poor People's Assembly, otherwise known as the Order of the Sisters of Rukia, filed a motion to intervene in the U.S.A. v. City of Jackson lawsuit. Judge Wingate approved the motion.  The Sisters of Rukia promptly got to work filing motions left...

 The Legislature moved one step closer to banning cellphones in Mississippi schools last week.
State Senators Briggs Hopson (R-Riverside Pawn) and Joseph Seymour (R- Marcello's) introduced SB #2099.  The bill mandates
Each public school district, public charter school and agricultural high school, the Mississippi Schools for the Deaf and the Blind, the Mississippi School of the Arts, and the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science shall, no later than January...