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Clarksdale Municipal School District students Leah Myles, Jamarick Davis, Khloe Reed and instructor Candace Barron pose for a photograph after their last teacher preparation class before winter break, Dec. 15, 2025. Their district offers a vocational teacher preparation course at the Carl Keen Career and Technical Center. Credit: Leonardo Bevilacqua/Mississippi Today

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To address its teacher shortage, one Mississippi Delta school district is growing its own
By LEONARDO BEVILACQUA - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Mon,03/16/26-11:20AM , 80 Reads 1,583 Statewide
Clarksdale public schools are cultivating future teachers among their students.

CLARKSDALE — Clarksdale had the second highest teacher shortage in Mississippi last year — 40 posted vacancies in July.
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Two former Delta law enforcement officers plead guilty to drug trafficking
By LEONARDO BEVILACQUA - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Fri,02/13/26-3:12PM , 96 Reads 6,074 Statewide
Two former law enforcement officers pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges tied to a federal crackdown on drug trafficking in the Mississippi Delta
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Audience members express emotion as public comments are given during the DeSoto County School Board meeting in Hernando, Miss. on Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today

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DeSoto County school board members want the power to remove a peer. Some legislators are listening
By LEONARDO BEVILACQUA - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Thu,02/05/26-1:20PM , 73 Reads 8,244 Statewide
In DeSoto County, some community members and the school board want Michele Henley, the board’s former president, to resign. They say she wrote a letter and testified in support of a woman who was eventually convicted of sexual battery against a minor. Henley has denied those accusations.
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George and Mary Robinson sit on the porch of their home as they talk about how they have been surviving after last weekend's winter storm Thursday, Jan. 29, 2026, in Tchula. Credit: Eric Shelton/Mississippi Today

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‘We need help bad’: Holmes County residents have struggled without necessities long after the ice storm
By LEONARDO BEVILACQUA - MISSISSIPPI TODAY
Tue,02/03/26-3:56PM , 174 Reads 6,896 Statewide
Some Holmes County residents have lived for days without power and water. Some have slept in cars for warmth. Some have missed hot meals.
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