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C Spire Wireless recently activated 4G LTE service on a new cell site in Canton expanding and filling in coverage on the high-speed data network it launched last December for the city. 4G LTE allows C Spire customers to download apps and game faster, open files almost instantly, do real-time video chat, surf the mobile [...]

It’s the gift that keeps on giving… or building. Nissan North America’s manufacturing facility in Canton has given two high-tech robots to Alcorn State University for use in the college’s advanced technologies program. The robots stand more than five feet tall, weigh more than 800 pounds each and were used to arc weld Nissan car bodies. In [...]

The first legal distilled spirit in the state of Mississippi, Cathead Vodka, has launched Cathead Honeysuckle flavored vodka, new to the U.S. market. Cathead Honeysuckle will hit shelves throughout the South later this spring and the company says, “it is a unique, southern-crafted spirit made from all-natural ingredients.” From press release: Produced by Bottle Tree [...]

Mississippians cheered the arrival of big league economic development this decade with Nissan’s arrival in Canton and Toyota pending move into Blue Springs. But a property rights movement is working to blunt the enthusiasm for more economic bonanzas — at least if state incentives include offering the mega employers private property the state would seize [...]