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The NewSong Community Church pumpkin patch, corner of Old Perkins and Bluff roads in Prairieville, will open Monday.

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Municipal elections are Nov. 7 and there are three incumbent Decatur City Commissioners running for reelection. George Dusenbury, Lesa Mayer and Tony Powers are all running unopposed.

Applications for funding from the Victims of Human Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation Fund are now available through the Office of the Attorney General. The funds are distributed among service providers throughout the state each year, with nearly $2.5 million being awarded to nine organizations in Mississippi earlier this year....

Samuel Hanke is a pediatric cardiologist in Cincinnati, but when you ask him for his title, he follows it by saying: “Most importantly, I’m Charlie’s dad.”

Public health messages—contradicted by photos or videos circulating in movies and social media—don’t always find traction.

Unsafe sleep environments are among the main reasons accidental suffocation or strangulation is a hard-to-solve public health problem.

Samuel Hanke is a pediatric cardiologist in Cincinnati, but when you ask him for his title, he follows it by saying: "Most importantly, I'm Charlie's dad."

Rates for SIDS​ have declined since the 1990s, but a different cause of infant death — accidental suffocation or strangulation — has been a persistent problem.

Roach, 41, has come full circle, leading an $18 million nonprofit that opened in 1917 as an orphanage during the last global pandemic before evolving into residential foster care and preventative services.