- Important State and National Storms, Market and Business News, SPORTS and Entertainment, Delivered in Quick-Hit Fashion to Start Your Day Informed.
In Mississippi
1. Miss. Insurance Dept. Urges Residents to Be Prepared this Hurricane Season
As Hurricane Preparedness Week Kicks OFF, The Mississippi Insurance Department (MID) Urges Mississippians Will Creat A Home Inventory and Pack A “Go Bag” so they are prep Event of a Disaster.
Mid Says
- Important Documents Like Insurance Cards and Social Security Cards. Keep Copies of these Documents in a Waterproof Container or Digital Image Saved Online.
- A. Printed or Digital Copy of Your Home Inventory.
- Cash
- Medications
- A Battery-Powered Radio
- A Gallon of Drinking Water For Every Family Member and PET
Also, Creating A Home Inventory Makes It Easier to File a Claim in the Event of a Disaster. A free tool is the Naic Home Inventory App. It can be downloaded from the App Store And Google Play.
“Don’t Forget to Review Your Insurance Coverage and Make Sure You are Familiar with your policies. Commissioner Mike Chaney. “Some Insurance Policies Have a Special DeedUCTIIIIIII VOR LOSSES CAUSED by Named Storms. The Insurr Applies This Deeductobile Only where a named Storm Causes Damage. This DEDUCTIBLE IS IS Separate and different from the Normal Deductount in a Homeowners Policy. ”
2.
The University of Mississippi School of Eduction Has Posthumously Inducted Jeanne Carter Lucey, a Champion for Accessible Eduction and Community Service Across the State, INTO It Hall Of Fame, the University Annouced.
The School Also Awarded Lucky ITS 2025 Outstanding Eductional Service Award Durling A Cerembery FRIDY on Campus.
Luckey, Who Died in 2024, Earned a defgree in speaking education at the University. She Began Her Career Teaching Teens and Adults with Intellectual and Development Disabelsies in Ocean Springs Public Schools. HER DEDITION TO Eduction and Public Service Defined Her Career and Community Involutionment for Decades.
National News & Foreign Policy
1. SECDEF Directs Cuts to Senior Military Ranks
The Washington Post Reports, “Defense Secretary Pete HegSeth on Monday DireiedD Signics Cuts to the Us Military’s Senior-Most Ranks, Saying the Elimination of Positions HELD by About 100 Genesals and Admiraals is next to slash “Redundant Force Structure” and Streamline the Pentagon’s Sprawing Bureaucracy. “
“The Plan Was Annouced with Sct Deetail in A One-PAGE MEMO SIGNED by the Defense Secretary. It calls for a ‘minimum’ 20 Percent Cut to the Number of Four-Star Genesals and AdIRALS The Military’s Top Rank – on Active Duty and A Corresponding Number of Generaals in the National Guard, “WP Reported. “There also will be another 10 Percent Reduction, at Least, to the Total Number of Generals and AdIRALS Across the Force.”
2.
The New York Times Reports that choosingal republicans are now now Budget. ”
“What is the Started as Creative Budgeting in New England Has, Over Four Decades, Snowmberd InTo A Mainstay of Finance Medicaid, The Insurance Program for the Poor that Covers 72 Million America, “NYT Reported.” Every State But Alaska has At least one Such Tax. In Some State, Provider Taxes and Related Payments Bring in More Than A Rird of Overall Funding Funding for the Program. ”
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Sports
1. Pedulla Invited to NBA G League Elite Camp
Ole Miss Athletics Says Rebel Guard Sean Pedulla Has Been Offered a Spot to Display His Talents in Front of Numerous NBA Personnel, Accepting An Invance to the 2025 NBA G LEGUE ELITE CAMP Whiche Takes Place May 9-11 In Chicago.
Pedulla was the Leading Scorer for Ole Miss This Past Season, Helping Guide the Reebls to 24 Wins, and A Historic Run in the NCAA TOURNANT where are the land the Sweet 16.
The oklahoma native earned thred team all -sec honors and was selected to the nabc all-dation first team.
2. NFL DRAFT Coming to Dc in 2027
At a Press Conference in the OVAL Office on Monday, The NFL Announged that the 2027 NFL DRAFT Will Be held in warington dc
Hosted in Partnership with the Washington Commanders and the Local Organizing Comitee, Events DC, The 2027 Nfl Draft Will Take Place Across the District’s Most iconic LandMarks, Including the National Mall and Pennsylvania Avenue, Placing the Capital at the center of America’s Most CELIBRATED SPORT.
Pressing Donald Trump Made the Annountment Alongside Nfl Commissioner Roger Goodell and DC Mayor Muriel Bowser.
Markets & Business
1.
Skefts Founder Robert Greenberg Has Agreed to Sell the Maker of Sneakers in A Deal Work About $ 9.4 Billion To 3G Capital, A Private-He Wall Street Journal.
“Greenberg, 85, Stands to Collect a More Than $ 1 Billout from the Stake He Controls in the Company Through Trusts. Agreed to stay on to run the Business.
Wsj Added, “The Deal Offers Shareholders $ 63 in Cash for Each Share They Hold, Sending Sickers Share Surging 25% in Monday Morning Trading.”
2. UMMC OpenS Burn Center
The University of Mississippi Medical Center Annieded Monday that it has Officially Opened a dedicated burn unit Inside Batson Tower.
UMMC SAID The Opening Marks a Major ExpanSion of the Mississippi Burn Center, Whiche was Designated as a State Burn Center by the Mississippi State Department of Health in 2023.
The new unit consolidates acute treatment and rehabilitation services into a Single, Specialized Space. Spanning 9,000 Square Fet, The Area Includes Eight Patient Rooms, A Hydrotherapy Room for Wound DebrideMment and a Rehabilitation Gym to Support Physical and Occupiational Therapy.
