Year: 2009

WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As U. S. Senators and members of the House of Representatives prepare to negotiate to combine the two distinctly different health care bills, members of the Congressional Black Caucus are vowing once […]

After the Mississippi Legisla-ture convenes at noon Jan. 5, two hot-button issues lawmakers will grapple with are balancing the budget and funding education, some Hinds County lawmakers said. “You will probably hear ‘budget, budget, budget’ […]

STARKVILLE – Fire gutted an apartment in a rundown complex Monday, killing three women and six children, including several family members taken in because they had nowhere else to go, officials and neighbors said. The […]

The Jackson City Council has approved a purchasing request to acquire the old Dillard’s department store at Metrocenter mall in west Jackson. In a 6-1 vote, the plan calls for the city to spend $39,500 […]

Woman sustains third degree burns Local news reports said a woman was set on fire by her boyfriend earlier this month while she was sitting in her car outside of a Jackson nightclub. Jackson Fire […]

HATTIESBURG – Children who grow up in their communities and recognize the need to build them have miles to go before they sleep. They touch the soil with loving hands. They manage to maneuver through […]

JACKSON – A woman who served as the Chief Medical Officer for the Mississippi Department of Corrections has admitted that she embezzled funds from the agency, officials said Friday. Dr. Kentrell Liddell, 35, of Jackson, […]

JACKSON – A former Jackson police officer was resentenced to 20 years in a federal prison last week for sexually assaulting a woman while he was on duty 10 years ago. United States District Judge […]

With the recent restoration and grand re-opening of the King Edward Hotel came something historically new and more valuable than its grandeur, expressed members of one local church group. That new value is it is […]