GREENVILLE, Miss. – A federal court judge has dismissed a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the estate of a woman who died while in police custody three years ago. The $10 million lawsuit was filed […]
After initially being denied financial assistance following the April 4 tornadoes in the Metro area, Hinds County residents can now receive assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). This news pleased Gov. Haley Barbour, […]
“It really did take something away from me,” Hattie Douglas, told a reporter during a recent press conference announcing her exoneration. The 32-year-old Camden, Miss. resident spent a year in jail after being charged with […]
More than two hundred people gathered at the Mt. Vernon M.B. Church in Yazoo City, Miss. March 26 for the homecoming celebration of long-time educator Annie Camile Jefferson Crudup, born Dec. 10, 1927. “Mrs. Crudup,” […]
The Associated Press MOORHEAD, Miss. – A Mississippi Highway Patrol trooper is on paid administrative leave for allegedly shooting a man in Moorhead. Officials with the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation say 29-year-old Derrick Terry Pitts […]
Joseph Graham, who broke the color barrier at the Jackson Fire Department in the early 1970s and became the city’s first black fire chief in 1996, has died. He was 68. Graham died May 6 […]
On the first day of the special legislative session, called by Gov. Haley Barbour, the House voted to reauthorize the Mississippi Employment Sec-urity Service (MDES) for a year. A bill was passed to the Senate […]
PARCHMAN, Miss. – Convicted murderer Earl Wesley Berry was put to death Wednesday, May 21. Mississippi Department of Corrections officials said Berry died by lethal injection at 6:15 p.m. at the Mississippi State Penitentiary in […]
Jackie Kitchen, a wife and mother of three, will have a lot to be greatful for this Mother’s Day Sunday. Thanks to the Women Build Committee of Habitat for Humanity/Metro Jackson, the Kitchen family will […]
Following the National Day of Prayer, Mission Mississippi (MM), a growing faith-based organization, released what they termed, “some good news.” During its 15th-Year Anniversary celebration and 2008 Mississippi Mayors’ Prayer Breakfast, MM told more than […]
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