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JACKSON – (AP) The Dixie National Rodeo spurred into action Thursday night launching a week’s array of riding, roping, wrangling and country music. There’s hot interest on the music front from country music legend George Jones’ Sunday show sold out before the first horse hooves hit dirt in this year’s rodeo. “He is by far […]
By Monica Land JACKSON – It took 500 days, but a portrait of former Jackson Mayor Frank Melton is now hanging in city hall. Portraits of seven former Jackson mayors grace a wall at city hall. But a portrait of the late embattled and controversial mayor was noticeably absent, WJTV reported. And prior to the […]
By JEFF AMY Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) _ Gov. Phil Bryant said he plans to continue activity with a Christian group promoting racial reconciliation. Mission Mississippi honored Bryant Friday, hosting the Governor’s Prayer Luncheon at the Jackson Convention Center. Neddie Winters, president of Mission Mississippi, said that Bryant, a white Republican, and Hattiesburg Mayor […]
JACKSON (AP) — A judge on Tuesday postponed arguments on whether to move the trial of a white Mississippi teenager charged with intentionally using a pickup truck to run over a black man. Deryl Dedmon, 19, of Brandon, has pleaded not guilty to capital murder in the June 2011 death of James Craig Anderson, a 49-year-old […]
(AP) JACKSON, Miss – Four convicted murderers pardoned by outgoing Mississippi governor Haley Barbour will remain free at least until a hearing on February 3, reports CNN. Eight of the convicted murderers pardoned by Barbour had killed their wives or girlfriends. Mississippi judge Tomie Green announced Monday that he was delaying a decision on whether […]