Year: 2008

A stunning development in the federal case against Jackson Mayor Frank Melton and his two former bodyguards. Former Jackson Police Officer Marcus Wright changed his plea Tuesday afternoon. Wright has pleaded guilty to conspiring with […]

JACKSON, Miss. — One of the Jackson mayor’s ex-bodyguards pleaded guilty in federal court on Tuesday. Marcus Wright pleaded guilty to misdemeanor conspiracy charges and will cooperate with federal prosecutors. Wright, along with Mayor Frank […]

OXFORD, Miss. – It’s Friday night, September 26, 2008 and roughly 15 minutes before the ‘great debate’— the first 2008 presidential debate between candidates Sens. Barack Obama (D) of Illinois and John McCain (R) of Arizona. […]

On Friday, Sept. 26, in the stillness of the evening from 8 pm to 10 pm, Americans were hugging their television sets to listen to the presidential debate on the Ole Miss campus. Amidst house […]

An estimated 3,000 national and international journalists flocked to Oxford, Miss. last week to have a glimpse of history and the mania surrounding the 2008 presidential debate on foreign affairs.
 Among them were 10 mass […]

WASHINGTON – Republican Sarah Palin criticized a version of a Barack Obama health care plan that doesn’t exist and Democrat Joe Biden clung to a misleading charge about Republicans and big oil when the two […]

WASHINGTON (Oct. 1) – President Bush’s plan to rescue U.S. financial markets is headed for a Senate vote Wednesday night after leaders there agreed to add tax breaks for businesses and the middle class and […]

OXFORD, Miss. — Beloved mother, daughter, and sister. Treasured brother, son, husband, and father. Valued co-worker and trusted neighbor. Cousin, friend and significant other. This week, 268 people died of AIDS. They would not have […]

President Bush on Wednesday warned Americans and lawmakers reluctant to pass a $700 billion financial rescue plan that failing to act fast risks wiping out retirement savings, rising foreclosures, lost jobs, closed businesses and even […]