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Yahoo
4 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Commissioner unveils 2025 Mississippi State Fair plans
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce Andy Gipson (R-Miss.) announced new details ahead of the 2025 Mississippi State Fair. Gipson addressed the entertainers, events and a ticket special for this year's fair. The Mississippi State Fair will take place October 2-13, 2025, at the Mississippi State Fairgrounds. Tickets go on sale June 5 at Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
‘Gone in an instant': Families on Killingsworth Cove Road pick up the pieces after tornado
KILLINGSWORTH COVE, Ala. (WHNT) — Families living on parts of Killingsworth Cove Road are picking up the pieces Wednesday after a tornado devastated and destroyed their homes. Pictures, family heirlooms and memories swept away in seconds. Thankfully, no one was hurt. 'All the remnants of the shop are scattered through the yard, and I've got most of that piled up over here now,' Dusty Gipson, who lost his family home and workshop to the tornado, said. 'And then everything from the house was just strolled across the street. Everything. 42 years, 42 years of life. Just strolled from one end of the community to another. So, it's pretty heartbreaking.' 📲 to stay updated on the go. 📧 to have news sent to your inbox. Dusty Gipson and his family returned from the storm shelter Tuesday evening to find their home ruined and crumbled to the ground. The staircase leading out their back door was the only thing left standing. 'And that was it,' Gipson said. 'Nothing else, nothing else standing, you know. It was just all the emotions, you know, everything you've ever worked for just gone in an instant, and how fragile life is…Everything that we owned is right here in this field.' The National Weather Service confirmed an EF-2 tornado passed through the area Tuesday. Winds from that storm picked up debris from Gipson's home and threw it across the road into a nearby field. Just down the street, the last-minute actions of a son saved his mother's life. Glennis Black said her brother got their mother out of the home they grew up in just seconds before it was destroyed. 'Put her in the car, went 200 yards, and it hit, and the house was gone,' Black said. 'There's no question nobody could've lived through that.' Now, they're trying to do what they can to piece together decades of history. 'Everything in her life is gone,' Black said. 'Honestly, we're just kind of going through the motions. Just really numb, we're really tired.' After a day spent cleaning up what remains, the families are determined to get back on their feet. They're thankful that no one was hurt. Beneath the rubble, both families are finding glimpses of light. 'We were digging and crawling under the roof, and I found her and daddy's wedding pictures,' Black said. 'And the glass was still perfect and everything…Little things like that, that there's no duplicate of. And you can never get those replaced.' 'The storm shelter don't allow you to have pets,' Gipson said. 'He was in his crate…When we got up here last night, we feared the worst…When one of our neighbors, a good close friend, he dug through the rubble last night and found our dog. He was actually safe and sound. So that was, that was huge. That was the positive we needed, you know, to kind of, to get us through the night.' There's a GoFundMe for Black's mother, Dorothy Osmer, to help her recover from the damage. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Miami Herald
30-04-2025
- Miami Herald
Man hog-ties woman, kills her mother-in-law over family's debts, FL cops say
A man told a woman her husband owed him money, then he kidnapped her and locked her in a toolbox during an hours-long attack in which he's also accused of beating her mother-in-law to death, Florida authorities said. David Gipson, 40, went on the run until law enforcement in the Florida Panhandle found him in the woods and arrested him, according to the Washington County Sheriff's Office. Gipson showed up to the victims' home and told the woman who answered the door that her husband and brother-in-law were thieves and he was there to take the money they owed him, Washington County Sheriff Kevin Crews said at a news conference April 29. Gipson, a convicted felon, started taking items from the home as she argued with him, then he attacked her, handcuffed her and took her clothes off, according to the sheriff. Then he began to attack her 74-year-old mother-in-law in front of her, beating her to a 'pulp' until she died, Crews said. Gipson kidnapped the wife and drove her to his home, where he duct-taped her mouth and sexually assaulted her, according to the sheriff. He's also accused of taking her to a shed in the backyard, hog-tying her and putting her in a container described as an 'oversize toolbox.' 'She said she got very hot and thought she was going to suffocate and die,' Crews said. Several hours later, she was able to get her legs underneath her and kick the box open, then she escaped, deputies said. She used a tree to get the duct tape off her mouth, then she ran into the road until a passerby helped her and called 911 shortly after 5:30 p.m. April 28, according to the sheriff's office. Gipson took the mother-in-law's PT Cruiser, and when officers went to her home, they found her dead, the sheriff said. Warrants were issued for his arrest on charges of sexual battery, aggravated battery and false imprisonment, and law enforcement agencies mobilized to find him, according to Crews. The sheriff's office announced his arrest the afternoon of April 29. A murder charge is expected as well, said the sheriff, who added Gipson has previously been charged with over 30 felonies.
Yahoo
30-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump wants to erase people. They're fighting back.
This column first appeared in The Amendment, a biweekly newsletter by Errin Haines, The 19th's editor-at-large. Subscribe today to get early access to her analysis. In the first 100 days of Donald Trump's second term in office, we have seen an American president attempting to swiftly and dramatically reshape our culture and our country, in an effort to redefine who and what makes America great. He's largely done this through a slew of executive orders that are not new laws, but directives that are already being followed and implemented by federal agencies, universities, state governments and school districts. But these orders are also being challenged in our courts, and in the court of public opinion, as millions of Americans have begun to take to the streets in protest of the Trump administration's agenda. At this milestone in Trump's tenure, the politics of exclusion and erasure are defining his presidency. 'This was always about dismantling the multiracial freedom project,' said Brittany Cooper, author and a professor of women's, gender and sexuality studies and Africana studies at Rutgers University. 'We had some notable wins. This administration sees those wins as a series of historical missteps that they now have endless power to undo.' There are consequences for the people on the receiving end of the president's actions and rhetoric. Many Americans, including women, people of color and the LGBTQ+ community, are grappling with how Trump's policies are transforming workplaces and institutions, setting new legal precedent and undoing established ones. In January, I wrote about the Americans Trump and his administration are trying to leave out. These are the people I wanted to speak to at the 100-day mark of his presidency, to hear from them about why what Trump is doing matters, if it has changed their relationship to our democracy, and how his actions are already affecting their lives. For more than a generation, My Brother's Keeper has focused on reducing health disparities, particularly for people with HIV. Based in Ridgeland, Mississippi, the organization typically processes 8,000 tests a year for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) across the state, many for people without health insurance. In the last month Dr. June Gipson, the CEO of My Brother's Keeper, has received letters from both state and federal agencies informing her that her organization would lose millions in funding. She is now scrambling to figure out how to keep the tests available and affordable to the patients who need it, in a state that consistently has some of the highest STD rates in the country. 'We don't want to leave the communities without any resources,' said Gipson. 'We pivoted the last time Trump was in office. We know how to pivot. But now we're just left scrambling because all the rules have changed. Unchecked STDs are going to be a huge problem for us, particularly in the South. This is not making America great again.' For Gipson, the mental strain of the last several weeks — mourning the progress that could have been made with the federal funding that has now disappeared as she considers the toll this will take on the community — has been difficult personally and professionally. 'There's so many conflicting and compounding issues,' Gipson said. 'I can't catch my breath and even talk to people about what's happening. You don't even know how something is affecting you, because every day there's something else on top of you.' Trans journalist Imara Jones wasn't surprised to see all of the actions the administration has taken against transgender Americans, but she does describe the actual experience as 'disorienting.' 'It's one thing to know these things are going to happen; it's another thing to experience them happening,' said Jones, the creator of TransLash Media. 'It is reality-altering.' Jones likened the swiftness and scope of the administration's executive orders targeting the transgender community to the Supreme Court's decision to end federal protections for abortion in 2022 and the chaos and uncertainty that was unleashed in the weeks and months since the decision. 'One day you largely assume you can get access to the health care you need. The next … it's all in jeopardy. It's this cascading impact on what you understand to be. It's like a Dobbs ruling every other day.' Cooper said Trump's targeting of 'wokeism'; taking aim at transgender Americans; attempting to ban pronouns; or scrap diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in government and society all point to a vision of 'the most reductive, most limited, most basic version of America that we have been.' She pointed out that the rejection of 'wokeness' in particular is a code word for embracing the vision of Black women. 'We have tried mightily to become different,' Cooper said. 'The only purpose we serve in his imagination of the world is one where we are in service.' Headed into the next phase of Trump's presidency, there are already signs that not everyone is on board with his agenda, and that he does not have the mandate he has touted since his election to reshape the country in his image. A Pew Research poll conducted this month showed Trump's approval rating at 40 percent, down seven points from February. And more than half of Americans said he is setting too much policy via executive order. Americans are showing up and speaking out at congressional town halls hosted by members of both parties, standing up for their neighbors as the administration attempts to deport immigrants they say are in the country illegally, and protesting in communities across the country. After weeks of being horrified by headlines about the administration's actions, Lora Weingarden decided to attend her first protest at the April 19 #HandsOff rally in Livonia, Michigan. The 64-year-old, who works as a lawyer for the state, said she is particularly concerned about the future of the rule of law in American democracy. 'As a lawyer, we're trained in the Constitution,' Weingarden said. 'We know what the rules are. There have always been consequences for defying the Constitution. If anyone gets away with violating a court order, we will live in a lawless society. I'm fearful we won't recognize our country.' She made a couple of signs, one reading, 'WHERE IS THE DUE PROCESS?' and another, 'GOP CONGRESS STEP UP — NOW!' Weingarden invited former colleagues, friends from her cardio drumming group, her tennis and pickleball teammates, and her husband to come along. She showed up with nine friends in tow. 'I want the public to know, I want the government to know that the regular people are not going to stand for what's going on,' she said. 'The more protesters we have, the stronger the message is.' Weingarden described the experience of gathering with like-minded people, of hearing horns honking in support as people drove past the protest, as 'exhilarating.' She plans to keep protesting. 'The message has to be loud and clear over time,' Weingarden said. 'It's not a hard thing to do. As citizens opposed to what's going on, we have to band together to send a message.' Whether the president sees them or not, these Americans are here, asserting their claim to what makes America great as participants in our democracy. Beyond resisting, they are fighting for recognition, for the right to be counted and not erased. The lesson of these first 100 days: Theirs is a fight that is just beginning. The post Trump wants to erase people. They're fighting back. appeared first on The 19th. News that represents you, in your inbox every weekday. Subscribe to our free, daily newsletter.
Yahoo
29-04-2025
- Yahoo
WCSO holds news conference about suspect at large
CHIPLEY, Fla. (WMBB) – The Washington County Sheriff's Office is holding a news conference about a suspect at large. You can watch in the player above. Deputies seek suspect in brutal attack on woman The Washington County Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help in locating a man they said brutally attacked a woman Monday afternoon. According to deputies, they received a call around 5:20 p.m. from a passerby stating he had found a victim of a brutal attack on Douglas Ferry Road. After further investigation, deputies said the victim told law enforcement that 40-year-old David Earl Gipson, of Caryville, had visited her residence, became irate, and attacked her. He allegedly bound, gagged, beat her, and threatened to kill her with a handgun. Deputies said Gibson then took the victim to his residence, where he continued to abuse her before putting her in a container outside in his yard. Deputies say the woman was able to escape and made her way to Douglas Ferry Road, where she was found. The victim was transported to an area hospital in stable condition. Gipson has active warrants for sexual battery, aggravated battery with a weapon, and false imprisonment and is believed to be traveling in a purple 2001 PT Cruiser with the tag number QUER21. The Washington County Sheriff's Office is urging anyone with information concerning Gipson's whereabouts to contact them at (850) 638-6111. You may also report anonymously by calling (850) 638-TIPS (8477) or by email at tips@ Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
