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After 30 years, children’s clothing business relocating to Texas

Associated Press — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:32:34 +0000

NATCHEZ — Kelly’s Kids, which has operated its children’s clothing operation in Mississippi and Louisiana for 30 years, will move to Texas in 2014. Kelly’s Kids products are sold by representatives who host in-home parties and through the Internet and catalog. Its sole retail store is an outlet in Natchez where the company now is [...]

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Hospital opens Pediatric Surgery Center; claims only one in state

MBJ Staff — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:30:55 +0000

FLOWOOD — River Oaks Hospital has opened what it claims is the state’s only free standing Pediatric Surgery Center in Flowood. The Pediatric Surgery Center is specifically designed to perform same-day procedures for children ages three months to 19 years of age. The center will be used by physicians from a variety of specialties from [...]

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Pediatricians supporting the expansion of Medicaid

Associated Press — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:15:45 +0000

JACKSON — The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the largest professional organization of pediatricians in the United States and in Mississippi, favors Medicaid expansion. AAP announced its position in a news release. In part, the release said: “Pediatricians in the state of Mississippi, a predominately conservative group with conservative values, were recently surveyed about Medicaid [...]

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State sees first decline in adolescent obesity in 10 years

MBJ Staff — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 12:19:30 +0000

ACROSS MISSISSIPPI — Mississippi’s obesity rate in high school students (grades 9-12) has dropped by 12.7 percent, knocking the state’s teens out of the number one spot down to number five in obesity nationwide. Mississippi’s 2011 Youth Risk Behavioral Survey found the rate of obesity among Mississippi high school students to be 16.5 percent, down [...]

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Private early-education group lobbies lawmakers for funds

Associated Press — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:32:03 +0000

JACKSON — A private group is asking the state for $5 million to continue efforts to improve childcare and education for preschool children. Mississippi Building Blocks works to make preschoolers ready for kindergarten by training preschool teachers and helping child care operators. The group has used $7 million in private money to run its program [...]

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Education officials want emergency declaration in Oktibbeha County

MBJ Staff — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:31:28 +0000

OKTIBBEHA COUNTY — The Mississippi Board of Education (MBE) determined that an extreme emergency situation exists in the Oktibbeha County School District. Acting on a recommendation from the Mississippi Commission on School Accreditation, the MBE voted unanimously to ask Gov. Phil Bryant to declare a state of emergency for the school district. The Oktibbeha County [...]

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Defense Department grant puts state-raised food in schools

Associated Press — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 17:05:57 +0000

DESOTO COUNTY — Either by fork or fingers, the second- and third-grade students of Chickasaw Elementary in Olive Branch dived into some Magnolia-state raised blueberries and cantaloupes as a part of a farm to school awareness program. Picking a blueberry up with her fingers, second-grader Mary Katherine Stephens, 8, liked the tiny cup of fruit [...]

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Friends pledge to raise millions for pediatric heart facility

MBJ Staff — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 20:15:49 +0000

JACKSON — Friends of Children’s Hospital, a group of volunteers dedicated to Batson Children’s Hospital at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, has pledged $2 million toward the creation of a new Children’s Heart Center at UMMC. The pledge was announced during a gala Friends event held at the Mississippi Museum of Art, “An Enchanted [...]

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Coast hospitals receive CON authority from MSDH for projects

Associated Press — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:07:54 +0000

GULFPORT and PASCAGOULA — The Mississippi State Department of Health has found there is a need to expand the neonatal intensive-care unit at Memorial Hospital at Gulfport and add eight beds at Singing River Health System in Pascagoula. The Sun Herald reports certificate of need (CON) applications were approved yesterday and work on both projects [...]

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Senators opposed to rule changes regulating youth employment in agriculture

MBJ Staff — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:32:56 +0000

WASHINGTON — Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) are supporting legislation to stop a proposed new federal rule restricting youth employment on farms and ranches. The senators are original cosponsors on the Preserving America’s Family Farm Act (S.2221), which was introduced last week by Senators John Thune (R-S.D.), Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and [...]

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