Northern Mississippi Showers and thunderstorms are possible through tonight. Highs today will be in the upper 70s, with lows tonight in the mid-60s. Central Mississippi Showers and thunderstorms are possible through this evening. Today’s highs will be in the lower 80s, with lows tonight in the mid-60s. Southern Mississippi Today will be mostly cloudy with showers and thunderstorms possible through tonight. Highs today will be in the lower 80s, with lows tonight in the mid-60s. The post Your Mississippi forecast for Friday, May 3 appeared first on SuperTalk Mississippi ..read more

A Jackson man will spend three decades in prison for producing child pornography. According to court documents, 43-year-old Delvan Jerrod Howard produced a video of an adult man engaging in sexually explicit conduct with a child. Howard was indicted by a federal grand jury on April 5, 2022. He pled guilty to the crime on January 11. Howard was ordered to pay $3,000 under the Amy, Vicky, and Andy Child Pornography Victim Assistance Act of 2018. He will serve his sentence day for day, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, and will be required to register as a sex offender. The Federal Bu ..read more

Mississippi State’s season has reached an interesting point, where the Bulldogs are poised to earn a host spot in the NCAA Tournament, but there’s no margin for error. Brian Hadad and Robbie Faulk discuss what this weekend means for the Diamond Dawgs, and the city of Starkville, as the baseball series headlines a massive three days. The post Thunder & Lightning: Mississippi State-Alabama Headlines a Huge Starkville Weekend appeared first on SuperTalk Mississippi ..read more

One of the most sacred rules of Thunder & Lightning is if you win a national championship, you are on the podcast. Mississippi State’s debate team brought home the top prize last week, and so now here they are for not just an interview, but an actual debate against Brian Hadad. Can he topple the best debaters in all the land? The post T&L Extra: Brian Hadad Takes on Mississippi State’s National Champion Debate Team appeared first on SuperTalk Mississippi ..read more

Mississippi State University is preparing to introduce an electric-autonomous passenger shuttle system to campus and the community this fall. With deployment by Beep, Inc., a leading provider of autonomous and electric shared mobility solutions, the system will be the first of its kind in the Magnolia State as well as the Southeastern Conference. Two shuttles, each seating up to 11 passengers, including an attendant, are slated to be available for riders come September as part of a pilot project to evaluate how the autonomous vehicles complement other modes of campus transportation. Two routes ..read more

Officials have identified the person found dead in the Pearl River on Tuesday night. According to Jackson Police Department Public Information Officer Tommie Brown, 42-year-old Jay Lee Barber was discovered in the river near South State Street and Gallatin Street. A fisherman told JPD that he noticed the body floating near the stack, which is located at the Interstate 20 and Highway 49 exit. Barber was reported missing out of Jackson on Friday, April 5. His next of kin have been notified about his death. This is the second time in three weeks that a person reported missing was found by fisher ..read more

Legislation designed to clarify who can use what restroom in Mississippi has made a roundabout journey to appear on Governor Tate Reeves’ desk. The Securing Areas for Females Effectively and Responsibly (SAFER) Act did not meet Monday’s conference committee deadline, but as the old adage goes, nothing’s actually dead during the legislative session until the session is over. To bring the bill back to life, both the House and Senate passed a concurrent resolution suspending the rules so that lawmakers could pass the legislation once more and send it to Reeves for final approval. Republican Sen.J ..read more

The Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled in a 7-2 vote that an advocacy group has no legal ground to sue the state over legislation that allows public funds to go to private schools. In June 2022, Parents for Public Schools, Inc. (PPS), represented by attorneys from the ACLU, filed a lawsuit challenging Senate Bill 2780 and Senate Bill 3064, accusing the legislation of violating Section 208 of the Mississippi Constitution by appropriating $10 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds to private schools across the state. According to the group, the bills violate the portion of the secti ..read more

Pro-Palestine protests at the University of Mississippi on Thursday were overshadowed by counterprotests. In a video shared to social media by Republican Gov. Tate Reeves and originally posted by Red Cup Ole Miss, a large group of students broke out in the American national anthem in response to calls for President Biden to change his approach to the war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas. “The ‘protests’ at Ole Miss today. Watch with sound,” Reeves wrote alongside the video. “Warms my heart. I love Mississippi.” The ‘protests’ at Ole Miss today. Watch with sound. Warms my heart. I love Mississ ..read more

The post SuperTalk Eagle Hour: Sun Herald Southern Miss athletics reporter, Scott Watkins talks baseball plus PRCC head baseball coach Michael Avalon talks capturing third MACCC championship in four years appeared first on SuperTalk Mississippi ..read more