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A lesbian substitute teacher was fired on her first day over a TikTok she filmed where she appeared to leer at a young schoolgirl. Miata Borders, 24, was axed from her position as a sub teacher at Lake Cormorant High School in Mississippi, after sharing a TikToks of her work day on October 17. In the offending video Borders - sporting an enormous diamond crucifix necklace - filmed a group of children practicing for the school band while walking down a corridor. As the camera lingered on one girl wearing red Crocs while holding pom poms, Borders said: 'Yeah they...

HEIDELBERG, Miss. -- Monkeys being transported on a Mississippi highway escaped captivity Tuesday after the truck carrying them overturned, according to law enforcement. All but one of the escaped monkeys were killed, the Jasper County Sheriff’s Department said in a post on Facebook, warning that the monkeys were “aggressive." It is not clear how many monkeys were originally in the truck or how many were killed. The truck was carrying Rehsus monkeys, which typically weigh around 16 pounds (7.7 kilograms) and are among the most medically studied animals on the planet. They were being housed at the Tulane University National...

Lindsey Whiteside, 26, is the former youth minister at Getwell Church in Hernando, Mississippi. In 2024, she was arrested and charged with “sexual battery of a minor child by a person of trust or authority” after she groomed and had sex with a 14-year-old girl over a period of several months. While prosecutors demanded 30 years, she only received three years of house arrest and seven years of probation, causing an uproar in the community over the light sentence. This also prompted district attorney Matthew Marton to rebuke the judge in the case while declaring: “She used the gospel of...

A federal judge overturned a former Biden-era rule that protected transgender healthcare under anti-discrimination measures. On Wednesday, Judge Louis Guirola Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi ruled in favor of a coalition of 15 Republican-led states. The complaint was filed regarding Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, which the Biden administration interpreted to include provisions for transgender-identifying people to receive so-called “gender-affirming care.” The provision added gender identity to Title IX’s definition of discrimination “on the basis of sex,” which previously included discrimination based on sex characteristics and reproductive function. This rule prevented...

In a small Mississippi town, where local businesses thrive and craftsmen find steady work, the city has become both beautiful and proud.I just returned from a girls’ trip to Laurel, Mississippi, the South’s self-styled “City Beautiful,” a small town made famous by HGTV’s “Home Town” — the popular home renovation show hosted by Erin and Ben Napier. I went to scope out historic fixer-uppers, hoping to make one my own.Standing on the creaky porch of a 1910 Craftsman bungalow, built for a sawmill manager during the lumber boom of the late 1890s to early 1920s, I felt its history. This...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - Five shootings in 24 hours across the Magnolia state left at least 9 dead this weekend. Most of the shootings happened after high school football games on Friday night. The last two happened at Alcorn State and at a Jackson State University event at Veterans Memorial Stadium on Saturday. At Alcorn State, one person is dead, and two others were injured near the Industrial Technology Building. Officials said no arrests have been made at this time. Jackson Police Department Interim Chief Tyree Jones said a child was hit by gunfire near the tailgate section during JSU’s...

Four men have been arrested in connection with a mass shooting in Mississippi that left six dead and at least 20 wounded during a high school homecoming weekend celebration, officials said. Three men — Teviyon Powell, 29, William Bryant, 29, and Morgan Lattimore, 25 — have been charged with capital murder, while Latoya Powell, 44, has been charged with attempted murder, according to the FBI’s Jackson Field Office. The shooting erupted around midnight Saturday in downtown Leland, a small city in Washington County, following the local high school’s homecoming football game. Authorities believe the violence stemmed from a personal dispute,...

Family members of law enforcement officers are facing threats from individuals affiliated with the far-left extremist group Antifa, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in an Oct. 10 X post.“Antifa terrorists are threatening the families of our law enforcement. We will hunt these sickos down and put them behind bars,” the post said. “In Texas, the spouse of an ICE officer received a voicemail filled with violent threats.”The agency uploaded an audio clip of the threat received by the spouse, in which a woman can be heard using expletives against the wife of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)...

High school homecoming celebrations in Mississippi ended in gunfire, with two separate shootings on opposite sides of the state Friday night that left at least six people dead and many more injured, authorities said. Four of the dead were killed in downtown Leland, after a high school football homecoming game in the Mississippi Delta region on the state’s western edge, a state senator said Saturday. About 20 people were injured in the gunfire after people gathered in downtown Leland following the game, state Sen. Derrick Simmons said. Of the 20 wounded, four were in critical condition and flown from a...

This was already a difficult shot for Vince Whaley at the Sanderson Farms Championship in Jackson, Mississippi. But notice DIRECTLY BEHIND HIM in the water, taking a front-row seat, sits an alligator. VIDEO: https://x.com/i/status/1974937259829797184

This is why “the Mississippi Miracle,” the sobriquet for the extraordinary gains that students in the Magnolia State have made in reading in recent years, is a misnomer. There’s nothing miraculous about a state that adopts phonics and that sets high standards for its kids getting better results in reading instruction. This, to the contrary, is a predictable outcome, and a replicable one, as other Southern states that have taken up similar polices have shown. Mississippi went from 49th in fourth-grade reading results on the National Assessment of Educational Progress about a decade ago to ninth in 2024. Its low-income...

It was midnight. I think it was in June - perhaps July - maybe August- perhaps later. I'm not really sure since it was maybe almost 10 years ago. I was sitting outside on the fenced-in porch of our apartment in Meridian, MS. We were lucky that our apartment faced a woodsy area, so I had an ample amount of privacy as I sat. The temperatures were very nice and comfortable - perhaps a little warmer than it would normally be. I wasn't from around there so I didn't know what was normal and what was not. I was here...

A Mississippi man who was arrested twice in the span of a month — once for allegedly arriving drunk to bail out a friend charged with driving under the influence, and again for an alleged DUI of his own — has died in custody, according to authorities. Felix Marquez Bartolo was discovered dead in his jail cell on Saturday at 5:30 p.m., according to a statement from Magee Police Chief Denis Borges. Bartolo was jailed alone at the time, and emergency protocols were “immediately followed,” police said. No foul play has been suspected, and the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation has...

I saw this a couple of days ago, and it was so intriguing, I had to hang on to it, figuring there would be a time it would come in handy.Little did I know our president would go into the United Nations General Assembly today with a flamethrower and give me the perfect opportunity to illustrate one of the scorched remnants of European superiority he left smoking on the expensive carpet in that room.When the man told them that their countries were going to fail.IF YOU DON'T GET AWAY FROM THE GREEN ENERGY SCAM, YOUR COUNTRY IS GOING TO FAILIF...

Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick showed his true character this week with his response to the death of Delta State University student Demartravion “Trey” Reed. On Monday morning, Delta State University Police found Reed’s body hanging from a tree near pickleball courts. The Bolivar County Deputy Coroner’s Office ruled out foul play after their initial examination. “Based on the preliminary examination, we can confirm that the deceased did not suffer any lacerations, contusions, compound fractures, broken bones, or injuries consistent with an assault,” the Bolivar County Coroner’s Office said. “At this time, there is no evidence to suggest the individual...

The death of a 21-year-old Black student discovered hanging from a tree at Delta State University in Mississippi has been ruled a suicide, police said Thursday. The body of the student, identified as Demartravion "Trey" Reed, was discovered by a faculty member around 7 a.m. on Monday hanging from a tree near the pickleball courts on the Cleveland, Mississippi, campus, according to the campus police department. The Mississippi State Medical Examiner's autopsy findings are "consistent with the initial investigation, determining the cause of death to be hanging and the manner of death as suicide," the Cleveland Police Department said in...

CLEVELAND, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi police on Wednesday awaited autopsy results for a Black student found hanging from a tree at Delta State University, in a case that has ignited strong emotions in a state with a history of racist violence. The 21-year-old student was found near the campus pickleball courts early Monday. While police have said they saw no evidence of foul play, his family is demanding answers and has hired prominent civil rights attorney Ben Crump. Campus police Chief Michael Peeler released little new information about the investigation at a news conference, calling the death an “isolated incident”...

Old America knew instinctively what our founders had declared: liberty is precious, but it cannot endure untethered. Freedom must be fastened to virtue, or else it curdles into license. John Adams once warned that the Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people, and that it was wholly inadequate for any other. He knew what we seem to have forgotten. --- snip This fracture is not merely political. It is spiritual. And at the heart of it, I suspect, lies our rejection of the faith that once anchored us. Christianity, whatever one thinks of its theology, gave this...

The body of 21-year-old student Demartravion “Trey” Reed was found hanging in a tree on the campus of Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi on Monday. Campus police chief Michale J. Peeler told reporters no foul play is suspected and the death is considered a suicide, despite no official cause of death yet being released by the county coroner’s office. Members of Reed’s family have stated both his arms and one of his legs were also broken, however police have disputed this. "At this time, there is no evidence of foul play," Peeler said. "But while there is no evidence...

A beloved Mississippi news anchor — who had only recently joined her television station — died suddenly at age 42, her devastated colleagues announced. Celeste Wilson, a weekend anchor for WAPT 16 in Jackson, tragically died of a heart attack. “Though Celeste had only been with us a short time, we were already touched by her professionalism, warmth, and dedication to the work of journalism,” her network, which also shared the tragic news on air, penned in its announcement Wednesday. “All of us here at 16 WAPT are heartbroken by this sudden loss, and our thoughts are with Celeste’s family...