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Bank of Commerce provides $274,000 loan to Itta Bena
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    Prenatal vitamins available at county health departments

    Sun,03/15/26-12:00AM , 155 Reads

    JACKSON — One of the most proactive steps an expectant mother can take to ensure she delivers a healthy baby is to take prenatal vitamins.

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  • Photo by Susan Montgomery, © 2026 Emmerich Newspapers, Inc.
    Greenwood Little Theatre actors Eddie Amelung, left, and Willie Whitehall, converse while playing cards during a scene from “Death of a Salesman,” which will open March 20 at Davis Auditorium. Amelung has the part of Willy Loman, and Whitehall plays Charley, Loman’s kindly neighbor.

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    ‘Death of a Salesman': Greenwood Little Theature will perform Arthur Miller classic

    By SUSAN MONTGOMERY
    Sat,03/14/26-7:00PM , 286 Reads

    In the famous playwright Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman,” the main character has a foreshortened life, but Willy Loman all the same has lived on in theaters worldwide for almost eight decades.

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    Mississippi Delta counties lead nation with highest rates of gun homicides

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    Sat,03/14/26-8:00AM , 1,084 Reads

    Leflore County consistently leads the nation with one of the highest gun homicide rates

    This is the first story in a series about gun violence in the Mississippi Delta.

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    A judge indefinitely paused Greenwood Leflore Hospital’s repayments to the Mississippi Division of Medicaid in court on Wednesday. If the payments had been allowed to proceed as originally ordered by the state Medicaid division, the hospital would have faced closure. The pause gives hospital officials a chance to consider their options, including the negotiation of the lease, sale or transfer of the property to another hospital organization.

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    Chancery judge orders pause on GLH Medicaid recoupment

    By BRENT MAZE
    Sat,03/14/26-2:00AM , 734 Reads

    Greenwood Leflore Hospital will live to see another month after a Hinds County Chancery judge ordered the Mississippi Division of Medicaid to stop recouping overpayments made to the hospital in 2024 and 2025.

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A judge indefinitely paused Greenwood Leflore Hospital’s repayments to the Mississippi Division of Medicaid in court on Wednesday. If the payments had been allowed to proceed as originally ordered by the state Medicaid division, the hospital would have faced closure. The pause gives hospital officials a chance to consider their options, including the negotiation of the lease, sale or transfer of the property to another hospital organization.

Chancery judge orders pause on GLH Medicaid recoupment

By BRENT MAZEBRENT MAZE - Editor
Sat,03/14/26-2:00AM, 826 Reads

Greenwood Leflore Hospital will live to see another month after a Hinds County Chancery judge ordered the Mississippi Division of Medicaid to stop recouping overpayments made to the hospital in 2024 and 2025.

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