Brookhaven Daily Leader
Flooded residents: Finish the pumps
By Luke Horton, publisher
On a recent trip up Hwy. 61 to Lake Washington, I saw first-hand the devastation backwater flooding has brought to the lower Delta.
Fields have turned to lakes. Homes have been submerged. Lives have been ruined...
San Diego Jewish World
U.S. Senate condemns anti- Semitism
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release) –– StandWithUs commends the US Senate for passing unanimously a Resolution Condemning all forms of antisemitism on June 13, 2019. The resolution was announced five days after a gunman burst into a synagogue...
Vicksburg Post
Branch reflects on year as Miss Mississippi
By Terri Cowart Frazier
It takes a special young woman to be crowned Miss Mississippi, and Asya Branch has served her state well.
Not only has she traveled the state promoting her social impact initiative, Empowering Children of...
Associated Press
Mississippi senator asks Trump for pumps to ease flooding
By Jeff Amy
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Faced with weeks more flooding in a part of Mississippi that's been underwater since February, one of the state's U.S. senators on Wednesday asked President Donald Trump to order temporary...
Mississippi Today
South Delta residents, enduring the longest flood since 1927, hope the EPA reverses course on Yazoo Pumps
BY Alex Rozier, Mississippi Today, and Phil McCausland, NBC News
REDWOOD, Miss. — The chest-deep water currently surrounding Stormy Deere’s house is expected to remain...
Dunn County (N.D.) Herald
Senators push for PTSD recognition
June 13, 2019
North Dakota’s Senators John Hoeven and Kevin Cramer have helped introduce bipartisan legislation that designates June 27 as “National Post-Traumatic Stress Awareness Day” and the month of June as “National Post-Traumatic...
Cindy Hyde Smith asks Trump for backwater pumps
VIDEO: Cindy Hyde Smith asks Trump for backwater pumps
https://www.wlbt.com/video/2019/06/14/cindy-hyde-smith-asks-trump-backwater-pumps-2/
By Courtney Ann Jackson
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) -The Yazoo Backwater area has been underwater for months now...
The Hill
McConnell ups pressure on White House to get a budget deal
By Alexander Bolton
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) invited Senate Republican colleagues to a meeting with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney Wednesday in a renewed...
WCBI-TV Columbus
Major Navy contract awarded to Louisville company
By Robert Davidson
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A Winston County company lands a Navy contract which could be worth up to $84 million .
Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith says Taylor Defense Products LLC of Louisville was awarded the competitive...
Associated Press
Mississippi-based federal judge nominated to appeals court
By Emiliy Wagster Pettus
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — President Donald Trump is nominating a federal district judge from southern Mississippi to serve on one of the nation's most conservative federal appeals courts.
The White...
