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Reed Green Coliseum is an 8,095-seat multi-purpose arena in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, United States. [1] Affectionately referred to by fans and local sportswriters as "The Yurt", it opened on December 6, 1965, and is home to the University of Southern Mississippi (USM) men's basketball team, women's basketball team and women's volleyball team. [2]
In December 1957, twins Richard and Ed Ward opened a New Orleans–based Frostop franchise in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. [3] [4] Frostop served chili dogs, orange soda, and root beer in frosted glass mugs. [3] On May 28, 1978, the Ward brothers opened the first Ward's restaurant at 40th Avenue and Hardy Street in Hattiesburg. [5]
On New Year's Eve, many localities in the United States and elsewhere mark the beginning of a new year through the raising or lowering of an object.Many of these events are patterned on festivities that have been held at New York City's Times Square since 1908, where a large crystal ball is lowered down a pole atop One Times Square (beginning its descent at 11:59:00 p.m. Eastern Time, and ...
Date Name (Age) of Deceased Race State (City) Description 2014-08-31: Justin Burch (21) White: Hattiesburg, Mississippi: Responding to a domestic violence call, the Marion County Sheriff's office says "a deputy gave Burch numerous commands to drop a firearm, but the situation escalated" and the deputy shot and killed Burch.
A station on Key West reported sustained winds of 61 mph (98 km/h), with gusts to 74 mph (119 km/h). While the storm passed to its north, the city reported a storm surge of about 2 ft (0.61 m). After its final landfall, Katrina produced a storm surge of about 5.37 ft (1.64 m) in Pensacola .
A sundown town is an all-White community that shows or has shown hostility toward non-Whites. Sundown town practices may be evoked in the form of city ordinances barring people of color after dark, exclusionary covenants for housing opportunity, signage warning ethnic groups to vacate, unequal treatment by local law enforcement, and unwritten rules permitting harassment.
Stock plans of restaurant designs were provided by Los Angeles architects Armet and Davis or Chicago architectural designer Robert O. Burton, and modified as needed. In the 1960s, Big Boy and other drive-in restaurants could not compete with the spreading fast food restaurants such as McDonald's and Burger King. Big Boy built its last drive-in ...
Hattiesburg is the 4th most populous city in the U.S. state of Mississippi, located primarily in Forrest County (where it is the county seat and most populous city) [4] and extending west into Lamar County. The city population was 45,989 at the 2010 census, [5] with the population now being 48,730 in 2020. [6]