Gabriela Szymanowska

Efforts to reach Jackson’s public works department to find out how the pipe burst and when it will be fixed were not successful Saturday morning.

As Mississippi reels from the latest COVID-19 surge, fueled by the omicron variant, Jackson businesses are dealing with staff and supply shortages.

“The bottom line is ... there are no jurisdiction lines that will prevent us from coming for you,” FBI Special Agent in Charge Jermicha Fombey said.

Since the virus hit the state in March 2020, a total of 566,102 COVID-19 cases and 10,492 coronavirus-related deaths have been reported.

“Don’t be a Grinch and ruin Christmas for someone else or yourself,” Mississippi Highway Patrol officials urge drivers over the Christmas weekend.

Heaton Pecans were established in 1975 by the Heaton family. The Mississippi Delta pecans are harvested from a more than 40-year-old orchard.

Jamal Short and Kenya Shardae McCarty are recent graduates of the Jackson Police Academy and employed by the department, according to Flowood police.

Jackson police officials are asking anyone with information that could tie the five men to other crimes committed throughout Jackson to come forward.

A lack of technology almost shutdown El Pueblo and efforts by Krishna Dasai and other caseworkers to provide low-cost humanitarian and family-based immigration legal services.

Anyone with questions about the online wish lists for Children’s of Mississippi can call 601-213-8054 or email inkinddonations@umc.edu.