NWS confirms two long-track EF3 tornadoes in Mississippi outbreak NWS Jackson confirmed five tornadoes from the May 6-7 severe weather event in southern Mississippi, including two long-track EF3 tornadoes that injured 13 people. MEMA reported 17 storm-related injuries statewide, while preliminary assessments showed nearly 500 homes damaged or inaccessible and 50 apartment units affected. Four […]

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Good evening, and welcome to #ourCOG Daily Brief for May 8, 2026. In today’s top stories, pressure is mounting in the U.S. to reconsider immigrant children’s rights to public education, while President Trump’s firm stance on Iran is pushing European allies like NATO towards developing more independent defense strategies. Domestically, communities are grappling with “teen […]

  Lee University students Samuel Bowers and Ashtyn Stock, along with humanities professor Dr. Jared Wielfaert, received the Charles W. Conn Servant Leadership Award during a recent chapel service.   […]
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May 9

1457
BCE: In the 15th century BCE, Battle of Megiddo between Thutmose III
and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh. The victory of
Thutmose extended the orbit of Egyptian influence into Canaan and Syria which
might help explain s…