Republican U.S. Senate candidate Chris McDaniel was booed by a live MSNBC audience on Friday after he said African-American from his home state of Mississippi should stop "begging for federal government scraps." McDaniel and other Senate candidates were interviewed on the "Morning Joe" show during its live broadcast at the University of Mississippi.
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Briarcrest Christian School is excited about its high school STEM program, which is growing and expanding to include engineering and aerospace. Stacey Bonasso has been hired as a new high school STEM teacher.
File photo/The Clarion-Ledger -- Used for medicinal research, marijuana plants grow in a facility on the campus of the University of Mississippi in Oxford. File photo/The Clarion-Ledger -- Marijuana plants are raised in the grow room at the University of Mississippi for research purposes.
Holts Summit has hired Bruce "Rick" Hess as its new city administrator. Currently the city administrator from Battlefield, he will start on July 5. "We are fortunate to get someone of Mr. Hess' caliber and experience," said Mayor Landon Oxley in a news release.
In April, the US Drug Enforcement Administration said that it would review marijuana's classification as a Schedule I drug, considered the "most dangerous class" of substances. While the DEA's announcement is a positive sign, many drug-policy experts think that it's unlikely the agency will actually decide to change marijuana's classification, despite a dramatic shift in public sentiment about the drug.