Weathersby News

Her uncle, Mike Weathersby, was just 40 when he died of cancer last March. Katlyn's mother, Krys, tried to help her brother by donating bone marrow, but couldn't. So 16-year-old Katlyn took on a mission to help someone else suffering from the same disease that took her uncle.

Board members with the Rankin County School District reaffirmed their stance on keeping the district intact by issuing a response to a local mayor's previous public comments that suggested creating a new public school district in Flowood.

In the wake of 2,950 write-in votes for superintendent in Lynn Weathersby's uncontested re-election bid Nov.

In a race that was uncontested, more than 2,800 Rankin County voters wrote in votes instead of casting a ballot for Superintendent Lynn Weathersby.

Emails sent to Rankin County schools employees from political campaigns, some of them bearing the district's letterhead, were not the result of a district endorsement, Superintendent Lynn Weathersby said.