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Coach Craig Walker smiles after participating in the ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the Charleston High School running track's official naming as The Craig Walker Track Field in his honor.
Hundreds gathered on a chilly Saturday morning to celebrate the dedication of the Charleston High School running track and field as The Craig Walker Track Field.
The naming honor is a tribute to the widely revered longtime Charleston Middle School physical education teacher and track and football coach who 44 years ago founded a summer youth athletic organization that earned trophies, medals and ribbons, and gave its members so much more.
By Clay McFerrin - Editor and Publisher, Charleston Sun-Sentinel on
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Jahlil Allison is charged with homicide in connection with the shooting death of Martell Bankston in Tutwiler. (Photo courtesy Tutwiler Police Department)
TUTWILER — In the wake of two unrelated shooting deaths here within a span of 14 days, the Tutwiler Board of Aldermen voted Tuesday to establish new curfews in an effort to tamp down late-night interaction that could lead to violence.
Tutwiler Police Department Investigator Casey Lewis said early Wednesday that an 11 p.m. curfew has been imposed for residents 18 and over, while an 8 p.m. curfew is in effect for anyone 17 and under.
Both the March 15 and March 29 killings occurred shortly after midnight, and everyone cited in the cases has been 18 or older.
By Clay McFerrin - Editor and Publisher, Charleston Sun-Sentinel on
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DeSOTO COUNTY — Excellence, consistency and passion have once again set Kareem Vance apart from the rest. For the second consecutive year, the Tippo native has been named DeSoto’s Best Personal Trainer, solidifying his reputation as one of the most respected and results-driven fitness professionals in the region.
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Nadiya Kuykendall, left, and Mystikal Kuykendall, right, are charged in connection with the shooting death of Roy'kivious "Roy" Sallie.
A man and woman have been arrested in connection with the death of an 18-year-old who sustained what officials described as an apparent single gunshot wound to the head.
Roy’kivious “Roy” Sallie, 18, of 2707 Sunwood Dr., Oakland — a subdivision just east of Charleston — was identified by Tallahatchie County Sheriff Jimmy Fly as the shooting victim.
Charged in Sallie’s death, according to Fly, are Nadiya Kuykendall, 25, whose driver’s license lists her residence as 20B Windmill Cove, Grenada, who is charged with first-degree murder.
By Clay McFerrin - Editor and Publisher, Charleston Sun-Sentinel on
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Enjoy the fresh-from-the-garden flavor of homegrown tomatoes. Grow one or more in a container, a dedicated vegetable garden or plant them with flowers in garden beds.
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Thursday April 2
Morning Star sets two-night revival
Morning Star Church of God in Christ, Tippo, will host revival services Thursday, April 2, and Friday, April 3, at 6:45 nightly. Guest speaker will be Elder Rodney Johnson. All are invited, noted pastor Bertram Bailey.
Friday April 3
Sale benefits Friendship East church
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Not much information exists yet on National Native Plant Month because it is a brand new designation.
The first Senate resolution was in 2021 to make April National Native Plant Month and recognize “the benefits of native plants to the environment and economy of the United States.”
This year, Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) has once again agreed to be the lead sponsor of the Senate resolution with Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) once again the bipartisan cosponsor.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The United States Air Force Band’s premier jazz ensemble, “The Airmen of Note,” from Washington, D.C., is heading out on a nine-day community relations tour through Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana.
The tour honors the service of Airmen both past and present and highlights the excellence of military members working across the globe.
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Albert Einstein wrote on May 23, 1946 that “The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking...”
One can say the same of the torching of Temple Beth Israel, three months ago, on January 10, 2026.
Memories are short. People’s minds move to other stories in the course of 24 hour news cycles at their peril.
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Saturday’s March 28 ceremony dedicating the running track and field at Charleston High School to a former longtime local coach, Craig Walker, was very fitting and richly deserved.
For many years, Walker was the physical education teacher and track and football coach at Charleston Middle School, but he may be most widely known as the founder, fundraiser, driver and coach of a summer youth track and field program that captured the attention of people far from Tallahatchie County or Mississippi.
By Clay McFerrin - Editor and Publisher, Charleston Sun-Sentinel on
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What does the holy-warrior culture Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is cultivating in our military have in common with the holy-militant culture Imperial Wizard Sam Bowers cultivated in his White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan?
I fell into this question after reading Hegseth’s latest militant prayer and then about the trove of Klan artifacts uncovered at the Mississippi Department of Public Safety as it prepared to relocate. Among the items recovered were a Klan charter and a March 1, 1964, Bowers lecture. (See all items at Jackson Jambalaya.)
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We had a horrendous happening here in our little close-knit town this past weekend. So unspeakable that my pacifist mind and spirit have trouble comprehending. Two innocent people in our community were shot to death needlessly.
Of course, Facebook lit up almost as quickly as it happened as this has become mine and it seems, everyone else’s, standard way of getting up-to-the-minute news, and the news hit our town with terror and fear.
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Pictured, from left, are Northwest Mississippi Community College Beauty Review third runner-up, Regan Landry of Helena, Alabama; first runner-up, Mya Harden of Water Valley; Most Beautiful, Wylee Sayle of Southaven; second runner-up, Abigail Busby of Holly Springs; and fourth runner-up, Lily Anderson of Olive Branch.
Northwest Mississippi Community College in Senatobia held its annual Northwest Beauty Review on March 24.
Wylee Sayle, the daughter of Dalton and Robyn Graham of Southaven and the late Willy Sayle of Charleston, was the overall winner.
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The bonding company acting as guarantor for three former Indianola aldermen has agreed to pay nearly $44,000 owed to the city for a 2023 improper payout to a local contractor.
State Auditor Shad White’s office confirmed to The Enterprise-Tocsin this week that it has received a check from Western Surety Bonding Co. in the amount of $43,600. This payment will make the city whole and will likely end a two-and-a-half-year saga that dominated the final two years of the last board’s term.
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The pace of modern life is so packed and structured, sometimes it’s great to have an open afternoon with nothing planned.
That’s how it was last Friday when, out of the blue, I got a text from my long-time friend Scott Coopwood from Cleveland.
“Headed to Jackson for Morgan Freeman’s Blues symphonic deal tonight. Do you have any interest in joining us? I’ve got two extra VIP tickets.” A quick call to Ginny and we were in.
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Chrissi Papworth set working with wind tunnels as a career goal while still a student at Mississippi State University. She now works for NASA on the Artemis mission with the Space Launch System. Here she is standing outside the Unitary Plan Wind Tunnels at Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.
Editor's Note: This story appeared in the Fall 2022 edition of Leflore Illustrated. It is being republished on our website today, as Carroll Academy graduate Chrissi Papworth was on the crew that helped build the Artemis that will launch Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. central time.
Chrissi Papworth says she didn’t follow the usual path to her current job working with NASA as an aerothermodynamics analyst, but she’s pleased with how things turned out.
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Lawmakers also look to provide funding for income verification contracts to help keep SNAP error rates low as higher rates will cost the state millions.
The budget for the Mississippi Department of Human Services was set this week, with legislators agreeing on roughly $94.6 million in state funding for the state agency.
The total budget for the department under the conference report filed for HB 1909, including federal and other funding, totals $1.6 billion.
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A federal judge ruled last year that Mississippi’s Supreme Court districts violated the Voting Rights Act. Instead of redrawing the districts, lawmakers will wait and see what comes of an appeal and a case before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Mississippi lawmakers will not take up redistricting of the state’s Supreme Court districts, choosing instead to wait and see what comes of an appeal as well as how the U.S. Supreme Court rules on a case involving the Voting Rights Act.
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1. Moss Point’s Stallworth advances to American Idol Top 14, awaits fate
Moss Point native Daniel Stallworth advanced to the American Idol Top 14 on Monday.
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