News Briefs From Across The State Woman feared kidnapped A spokesperson for the FBI has confirmed that a woman who was reported missing on Saturday, Sept. 24, has been found alive. LaTonya King, who was […]
From CNN (CNN) — Thirteen people have died from consuming bacteria-tainted cantaloupe in what has become the most fatal U.S. outbreak of a food-borne illness since 1998, according to records from the Centers for Disease […]
It’s no secret that the Tigers aren’t playing for a SWAC championship this season. What hasn’t been talked about a great deal is the fact that the Tigers were aiming for the National Black College […]
Dorothy McLaurin’s 92-year-old mother suffers from Alzheimer’s. Her mother is among an estimated 5.4 million American who have the disease, including an estimated 53,000 Mississippians. When McLaurin heard on an early morning Jackson newscast Thursday, […]
Sept. 23, 1955 marked the end of a trial where an all-white jury acquitted two white men, J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant, of the murder of then 14-year-old African American Emmett Louis “Bobo” Till (July […]
Jamila Slaughter, a 27-year-old from Madison County had had enough of what she described as unwanted sexual advances and harassment from then pastor of Word of Faith Christian Center-Jackson, Bishop Kevin Wright. Slaughter, who worked […]
CANTON – A former home health nursing assistant will spend the next year behind bars for stealing checks from her patient and forging the signature. Angela Shonta Wilson, 34, of Canton, was sentenced to 10 […]
JACKSON, Miss. – The Jackson State University Athletics Department has named Larry McNeil as its interim women’s basketball coach for the 2011-12 season. McNeil, who had been an assistant coach with the Lady Tigers from […]
A theologian friend took her car to a Jiffy Lube for servicing. Not having anything to read, she picked up a manual on the coffee table about boating. A chapter on the rules for what […]
GULFPORT – Captain Ken Brown said this week they are still looking for suspects in the murders of three people found dead in a mobile home last month. On Aug. 30, the bodies of 48-year-old […]
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