When cheerleaders at Northeast High School aren’t busy rooting on the football team… or pumping up the crowd during a pep rally… you can expect to see them in practice, preparing for nationals. “We’ve been practicing a lot lately. We practice every day from 2 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sometimes during the school week, we practice before school at 5 a.m. and then we also go into extra practices in the evening,” said Maggie Hawkins, the cheerleading co-captain. In February, thousands

Yesterday teachers at Northeast Lauderdale High School learned a potentially life-saving lesson—how to respond to active shooter situations. “Over the last couple of decades, mass shootings have been brought to the forefront, and everybody relies on the police more and more. Well, now we’re coming to the point where we need the civilians to react,” said Steve Windish, the assistant chief of police of the East Mississippi Community College Police Department. To respond to an