CPD trains on how to help those with mental illness
Recently, a man released from a Columbus behavioral health clinic became so upset outside the facility that police were called to the scene.
Chief Fred Shelton did not give too many details about the man to protect his privacy, but said he was screaming and throwing things. It was the sort of situation where police may have simply arrested the man for disorderly conduct.
Ready, set, grow: Sign up for Master Gardener training
Even in the grip of frigid temperatures, Mississippians know spring will eventually begin to tease and tempt.
‘Not just fighting fires’: Area fire chiefs compare firefighter pay in profession with increasing training, scope of duties
He’s 21 years old. He has a high school education and a higher-than-average ACT score. He’s just been handed 75 pounds worth of weights and is told to climb a stairclimber with them on his back for three minutes and 20 seconds.
Helping others cope with trauma
Kirk Gayle said everywhere he goes in Columbus, he sees death.
Preparing for attacks on schools
About 1,000 people — primarily educators and staff from Lowndes County School District and Mississippi University for Women — were silent as they watched what appeared to be surveillance footage of two teenage boys armed with long guns stalking the hallways of a school.
Sally Kate Winters hosts child abuse investigation training
Audible gasps filled the conference room at the Starkville Hilton Garden Inn as pictures of a bruised child flashed onto a projector screen.
Need increases for training to help first responders deal with trauma
John Almond knows of a police officer who, on his first day of work, was the first to respond to the scene of an 11-year-old who was accidentally shot.
Training burns can ultimately save other homes
By 10 a.m. Thursday, the weather was almost perfect – a cool, clear sunny day with just a mild breeze.
Everyone agreed: It was a wonderful day for a house fire.
United Way, Emergency Management Agency host disaster response training
When tornadoes hit East Columbus and New Hope in 2014, roughly 50 volunteers from the southeast United States and Golden Triangle regions swarmed to Columbus to remove debris and clean up homes.
Making an iron-clad case: DA-sponsored training helps Golden Triangle law enforcement with reports, interviewing techniques
Rule number one: Everybody lies.
Poll watcher training planned in Starkville
The Greater Starkville Development Partnership and the Oktibbeha County Bar Association are joining forces to host a poll watchers seminar from 2-5 p.m. March 23 at the Courthouse Annex.
Main Street offering active shooter prep class for businesses
Next week, Columbus Main Street member businesses will have a chance to learn what to do if the worst happens in the workplace.
MSU hosts suicide prevention training
No one can stop a suicide because it is inevitable, and confronting a suicidal person with concern will only make that person angry and increase the risk of action.
Registration now open for fall CWJC training
Christian Women’s Job Corps (CWJC), Golden Triangle, is currently accepting applications for its fall semester of job and life skills training.
Training for counseling professionals offered Friday
The Pines and Cady Hill Recovery Center, a division of Community Counseling Services, in partnership with Pine Grove Treatment Center of Hattiesburg, will offer a training session titled “Successful Residential Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Effective Therapeutic Interventions” from 9:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. Friday.
Columbus firefighters complete fire academy course
Columbus Fire & Rescue firefighters Matt Jaynes and Jaquay D. Sharrod have completed a training course at the Mississippi State Fire Academy in Jackson.
For some, food benefits set to expire
Some Mississippi residents who receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits may lose those benefits starting April 1 if they do not satisfy certain work-related requirements.
EMCC celebrates renovations to training facility
Nearly a year after accepting a grant from Yokohama Manufacturing, the East Mississippi Community College Training Facility in West Point officially celebrated the four new classrooms it opened for its manufacturing classes.
Columbus’ Surprising Spartans
Most of the people in their 20s and 30s that compete alongside Tony Phinisey in Spartan Races — known as one of the world’s most challenging obstacle races — are unaware he and members of his team are two or three decades their senior.
Food stamp cutoff concerns advocates for poor in Miss.
With 75,000 Mississippians at risk of losing food stamp benefits on March 30 if they don’t find work or training, social service providers fear an influx of hungry people in what’s already the hungriest state in the nation.