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Episcopal Bishop of Mississippi Brian Seage leaving for California

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2 years ago

October 28, 2022

rssfeeds.hattiesburgamerican.com – Mississippi Clarion Ledger – 2022-10-27 21:24:29

The Rt. Rev. Brian Seage is the 10th Bishop of Mississippi. Bishop Seage's wife, Kyle Seage, is rector at St. Philip's in Jackson. She will become the rector of a California church and Bishop Seage will depart for California once a replacement is named.

The Episcopal Bishop of Mississippi, who recently led the diocese through the COVID-19 pandemic and Jackson water crisis, will be leaving the state once a replacement is elected.

Brian Seage, the diocese’s 10th bishop, was elected in 2014 and succeeded Bishop Duncan Gray in 2015, upon Gray’s retirement.

The move comes as St. Philip’s Episcopal Church in Northeast Jackson announced that Kyle Seage, also an Episcopal priest and the bishop’s wife, had accepted a job as rector of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Belvedere, CA. She had been the rector of St. Phillip’s for 12 years. Brian Seage…

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In NIT, Southern Miss basketball to face UAB in opener

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2 years ago

March 12, 2023

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rssfeeds.hattiesburgamerican.com – Mississippi Clarion Ledger – 2023-03-12 21:36:08

Southern Miss men’s basketball is heading to the NIT for the first time since 2014.

The Golden Eagles will face UAB in the first round of the 2023 NIT on Tuesday (6:30 p.m., ESPN+), having learned their postseason fate Sunday.

Coach Jay Ladner – the Sun Belt Conference Coach of the Year – guided Southern Miss (25-7) to its third regular-season conference championship and first since 2000-01. The regular-season title clinched an automatic bid for the Golden Eagles despite a 78-61 quarterfinals loss to South Alabama in the conference tournament March 4.

Alcorn State (18-13), which won the…

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Mississippi Legislature moves through another major deadline Wednesday

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2 years ago

March 9, 2023

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rssfeeds.hattiesburgamerican.com – Mississippi Clarion Ledger – 2023-03-09 13:31:52

Another legislative deadline came and went Wednesday, with all bills having to move past the floor of the chamber they did not originate in, and a number of the most watched bills remain alive.

Some big pieces of legislation died though, including one of the most important ones related to the city of Jackson.

See what made it past Wednesday’s deadline, and what did not.