Month: August 2008

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – There was a time when Zach Scruggs seemed poised to follow his father to the top of the legal profession. Instead, he reports to prison Friday for knowing about the judicial […]

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Democratic candidate Barack Obama doesn’t want the embattled mayor of Detroit on hand when Obama accepts the party’s presidential nomination in Denver. A spokesman for Obama said Thursday that Detroit Mayor […]

While United States swimmer Michael Phelps is in China winning the most golds ever, a young Jackson, Miss. youth just might be a gold medalist in the making. Jylin Whitlock, 10, a fourth-grader at Wilkins […]

WASHINGTON – John Edwards says he made a serious error in judgment when he had an affair and is ashamed of his conduct. In a statement, the former Democratic presidential candidate also said he informed […]

Published: Saturday, August 9, 2008 11:05 PM EDT CHICAGO — Bernie Mac, the actor and comedian who teamed up in the casino heist caper “Ocean’s Eleven” and gained a prestigious Peabody Award for his sitcom […]

BELZONI, Miss. – Ethel Heard’s family and friends of Belzoni, Miss. say they do not understand how a Leflore County jury let the man walk free who killed her by shooting into the occupied, moving […]

VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) — When the Rev. Malcolm O’Leary, S.V.D., decided he wanted to become a priest in 1947, there was only one seminary in the country that would accept him. “I just fought it […]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) _ Gov. Haley Barbour said Tuesday that he believes Democratic leaders in the Mississippi House are playing politics with his plan to fill a $90 million hole in the state’s Medicaid program. […]