Education

Gov. Phil Bryant fills two seats on state Board of Education

JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Gov. Phil Bryant has named Johnny Franklin of Bolton and Danny Spreitler of Amory to fill unexpired terms of Mississippi’s state Board of Education. Franklin, Bryant’s former education adviser, will fill […]

Health

Yazoo County resident dies from West Nile virus

JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — West Nile Virus has claimed its first Mississippi victim of 2014. The state Department of Health said Tuesday that a Yazoo County resident died from the mosquito-borne illness earlier this month, […]

Business

Gulf oyster harvest sees dramatic decline since BP oil spill

HOPEDALE, Louisiana (AP) — Fisherman Randy Slavich drags a clunky metal net through an underwater oyster bed in Lake Machias, a brackish body opening into the Gulf of Mexico. For generations, this has been a […]

Entertainment

Lauren Bacall, sultry-voiced actress, dead at 89

NEW YORK (AP) — Lauren Bacall, the slinky, sultry-voiced actress who created on-screen magic with Humphrey Bogart in “To Have and Have Not” and “The Big Sleep” and off-screen magic in one of Hollywood’s most […]

Entertainment

Actor/comedian Robin Williams found dead in apparent suicide

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Robin Williams, the Academy Award winner and comic supernova whose explosions of pop culture riffs and impressions dazzled audiences for decades and made him a gleamy-eyed laureate for the Information Age, […]

News

Madison County man shoots daughter, police later kill suspect

CANTON, Mississippi (AP) — Madison County authorities say a man accused of shooting and critically injuring his daughter was later shot and killed after threatening officers with a gun. WAPT-TV reports (http://bit.ly/1uH3PZ1 ) the incident began […]