The Hinds County Republican Party and the county’s only white supervisor are suing four black county supervisors, charging race was used improperly as a factor in redrawing district voting lines.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Jackson, claims the majority-black Hinds County Board of Supervisors used “impermissible racial considerations” when redrawing district lines. […]
The lawyer for a convicted sex offender says the man will pursue an insanity defense against a charge of failing to register.
A filing Thursday said Cleve Calloway Gordon has a mental disease that prevented him to know right from wrong at the time of the alleged offense, when he didn’t register from February to April. […]
The town of Kosciusko has adopted a ban on sagging pants.
The Star Herald reports that the wearing of sagging pants was added recently to the town’s ordinance prohibiting public indecency. The ordinance takes effect Oct. 18. […]
Columbus police have arrested a man in the alleged rape of a woman on the Mississippi University for Women campus in August.
The Commercial Dispatch reports 26-year-old Jamarrell Brandon was arrested on Monday and charged with one count sexual battery. […]
Security is tight in a murder trial in Pike County Circuit court involving a Summit man accused of beating and robbing a check cashing company employee.
On trial is 26-year-old Kendrick Cowart, on charges of murder, armed robbery and two counts of conspiracy. […]
Patricia Chadwick “Pat” Lamar, the first woman mayor of Oxford, Miss., died Monday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi. She was 71.
The cause of death was not released. […]
The body of a 59-year-old Brandon woman feared kidnapped has been found near Tougaloo College in Madison County, and police say her alleged assailant is jailed on murder charges.
Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey tells The Clarion-Ledger Lenora Patsy Edhegard was found dead Tuesday night. He didn’t give details on her cause of death. […]
By Tim Ward
Sports Writer
After being on the road to open the season for three consecutive weeks, JSU played their first home game in front of an announced crowd of over 20,000. Low numbers since the last time Southern came to Jackson. Saturday’s (Sept. 22) game against Southern was a great example of how Tiger fans are feeling. Let me explain. At this point in the season, die hard fans expected to be at least 2 & 2 after Saturday, not 1 & 3.
Let’s break it down. First game, Mississippi State, yeah right…. […]
Board of Trustees approves big-spending measures
By Othor Cain
Managing Editor
Faced with questions about big spending in his former school district, Jackson Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Cedrick Gray vows to remain focused on JPS and moving this district forward. “I cannot afford to lose sight of what is before us, even with lingering questions,” Gray said. “Everything we did in Fayette County, Tenn., was above board and done with board approval.”
Last week Gray asked JPS board of trustees to approve hiring a financial team that would help with restructuring its debt and save the district money. Gray submitted to the board some background on the team and the reason he wanted to bring them on board. What he did not give them were hard cold numbers on cost or projected savings…. […]
By Ayesha K. Mustafaa
Staff Writer
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney said, “There are 47 percent of the American people who will vote for the president no matter what…, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it.”
Perhaps Romney should have attended the Sept. 26 (and last year’s) 2nd Annual Jobs for Jacksonians Job Fair and Business Engagement Summit held at the Jackson Medical Mall on Woodrow Wilson Blvd. In this city of over 75 percent African Americans, there were job seekers who filled the Mall’s hallways stretching over a block long and standing or passing nearly elbow to elbow…. […]
Copyright @ 2025 Website Design by No Regret Media