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JACKSON COUNTY, MS (WLOX) - Each year, more than 830 children die in the United States as a result of unintentional drowning, that's according the Safe Kids USA Organization. Students from the Pascagoula School District are learning water safety so they won't end up a statistic.

Doug Morefield drowned in a boating accident Monday afternoon near the Newburgh Locks and Dam.

Twenty-five years, and 7,000 kids later, the Sebastopol Rotary Club?s Learn to Swim Program for all area second graders is still going strong. Rotary Club co-chairs for the lessons, Greg Jacobs and Emily Buller, announced that this year?s version of the program will begin on May 3 at Ives Pool, and conclude on May 27, before Memorial Day weekend. Jacobs said that they expect more than 280 second ...

The Family Action Network?s Splash Park project (FANSplash) is hoping a final wave of generous donations at its Winter Fiesta this Saturday will allow it to build the ?splash park of our kids? dreams? in time for this summer.

It wasn't 15 minutes after Mercy Academy stunned top-ranked Marion County on Wednesday when Mark Evans was asked about his team's next opponent. "Oh, wow," the coach said. "Now we get to play against one of the best coaches in the state."

Richard Middleton is used to feeding a lot of hungry people. As the corporate chef for Western Camp Services, crowds of hard-working oil and forestry workers are always looking for solid chow. Now imagine trying to feed and keep happy roughly 1,975 active, growing and hungry teenagers.[...]