WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 (TNSFR) -- The Minnesota Historical Society is preparing to repatriate seven cultural items classified as unassociated funerary objects to the Chickasaw Nation. These items, which consist of four metal ornaments, two metal rings, and one pair of spectacles, were taken from Lee County, Mississippi, at an unknown time. They were donated to the society in 1931 by the spouse of Gilbert L. Wilson, an ethnographer and minister who had collected them. The society's determination is  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -- Rep. Michael Guest, R-Mississippi, chairman of the House Ethics Committee, issued the following news release: * * * Notice of Public Participation The Committee on Ethics (Committee) appointed a bipartisan working group to review and make recommendations to improve, clarify, and modernize the Committee's guidance regarding campaign activity by House Members, officers, and employees. The Working Group consists of Representative Nathaniel Moran and Representative Sylvia R.  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Grand Gulf Nuclear Station, Mississippi, experienced a brief but total loss of its control room air conditioning system late on July 28, prompting a "non-emergency" report to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The event occurred during a scheduled surveillance, when Control Room Air Conditioning unit 'B' tripped, followed shortly by a trip of CRAC unit 'A'. With both systems inoperable, the plant entered a limiting condition of operation, which requires one system to be r  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 -- Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Mississippi, issued the following news release: * * * SCREWWORMS ARE BACK AND CONGRESS MUST ACT | OPINION * WASHINGTON, D.C. - The following is an op-ed piece penned by U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.) regarding the threat of the New World Screwworm spreading into the United States. Hyde-Smith, who serves on the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry and the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee, is working wit  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 -- Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi, issued the following news release: * * * Wicker, Schatz Introduce the Marine Aquaculture Research for America Act * WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, introduced the Marine Aquaculture Research for America (MARA) Act of 2025. The MARA Act would authorize the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Office of Aquaculture and establish commercial-scale demonstration projects. The   more