Sports

White lifts Ole Miss past Coastal Carolina 71-68

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — LaDarius White scored a career-high 26 points, including 6 of 8 from 3-point range, to lift Mississippi to a 71-68 win over Coastal Carolina on Thursday. Jarvis Summers and Stefan Moody […]

Opinion

Rickey L. Cole: What Democrats stand for

To the Editor, It goes without saying that there is a great deal of division in America today.  Many of us lament those divisions, and we worry about the damages wrought by the often-bitter conflicts […]

Business

Pike supervisors get $1M for pellet mill

MCCOMB, Miss. (AP) – Pike County is getting $1 million from the state of Mississippi to install water and sewer services to the site of a pellet mill on U.S. Highway 51. The money came […]

News

MDOC scandal: Brandon businessman Cecil McCrory seeks delay in trial

JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Brandon businessman Cecil McCrory has joined former Mississippi Corrections Commissioner Christopher Epps in asking a judge to delay their Jan. 5 trial date. In a motion filed Wednesday, lawyer Don Leland […]

Education

2 finalists picked for director of Mississippi community college board

JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — The 10-member Community College Board will meet Thursday to interview two finalists seeking to become the next executive director of the board that oversees Mississippi’s two-year colleges. The board has declined […]

News

Diamond, one of nation’s oldest giraffes, euthanized at Jackson Zoo

JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Officials say Jackson Zoo’s reticulated giraffe Diamond has been euthanized after advanced age complications, pain and severe and worsening arthritis rendered her unable to stand or eat. Zoo officials tell The Clarion-Ledger the […]

Sports

Ole Miss CB Senquez Golson of Pascagoula named first-team AP All-American

The Associated Press The College Football Playoff participants are well represented on The Associated Press All-America team. Florida State leads the way with three first-team All-Americans: tight end Nick O’Leary, guard Tre Jackson and kicker Roberto Aguayo, […]

Entertainment

Sony hackers reference 9/11 in new threats against theaters

NEW YORK (AP) — Hackers calling themselves Guardians of Peace made ominous threats Tuesday against movie theaters showing Sony Pictures’ film “The Interview” that referenced the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The group also […]