Entertainment

Remembering Katrina: “I didn’t plan to evacuate”

By Angel Hampton  Special to The Mississippi Link I didn’t plan to evacuate. I had gotten used to hurricane threats being a way of life early on as a student at Xavier University. Sometimes we […]

News

Rep. Mary Coleman gets Dem nod for transportation seat

(AP) Longtime Rep. Mary Coleman has won the Democratic nomination for the Central District seat on the Mississippi Transportation Commission. Coleman defeated businessman Robert Amos in Tuesday’s party primary runoff. Both candidates are from Jackson. […]

News

3 Mississippi primary runoff races too close to call

(AP) Party primary runoffs were too close to call in three Mississippi legislative races because of uncounted absentee or affidavit votes. One was in House District 24 in part of DeSoto County, where Jeff Hale […]

Health

Mississippi West Nile cases grow to 13

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi has two new cases of West Nile virus, bringing the total of laboratory-confirmed cases this year to 13. The state Department of Health says Monday that both of the new […]

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Louisiana trooper dies after being shot by stranded motorist

NEW ORLEANS (AP) – A Louisiana trooper died Monday after he was shot by an apparently stranded motorist who stood over the officer and told him afterward, “You’re lucky — you’re going to die soon,” […]