Mississippi Delta Community College (MDCC) was recently awarded two grants totaling $3,650,000 from the U.S. Department of Education through the Predominately Black Institutions (PBI) Program.
MDCC will receive a minimum of $250,000 per year for five years under the funding formula portion of the program. […]
A 15-year-old Jackson County girl is missing and the police department is asking for the public’s help in locating her. Lt. James Massey said Allysa Taylor Gray was last seen Saturday night about 7:30 p.m. near the intersection of Ingalls Avenue and Pascagoula Street.
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Jackson State coach Rick Comegy chose to look at Saturday night’s 56-9 loss to Mississippi State as a learning experience for his team.
Mississippi State cruised to a big win in front a seventeenth-consecutive sellout home crowd in each team’s opener. […]
Lucimarian Tolliver Roberts, the mother of “Good Morning America” co-host Robin Roberts, has died a day after the anchor announced she was taking a medical leave for a bone marrow transplant.
The 88-year-old Roberts died in Gulfport, Miss., on Thursday night, Jeffrey W. Schneider, senior vice president of ABC News, said Friday. […]
The New York City medical examiner’s office has ruled the death of hip-hop mogul Chris Lighty a suicide.
Lighty, a hip-hop mogul who helped the likes of Sean “Diddy” Combs, 50 Cent and Mariah Carey attain not only hit records, but also lucrative careers outside music, was found dead in his New York City apartment Thursday in an apparent suicide. He was 44. […]
A former Tunica County probation officer has been arrested and charged with embezzlement. Patricia Nicole Brown, 40, of Hernando was arrested in a joint operation between investigators of the Attorney General’s Public Integrity Division and the Mississippi Department of Corrections Investigations Division. […]
Gulfport, Miss-The sun rose over the Mississippi Gulf Coast on the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina to flooded and deserted streets and sporadic power outages. Wind whipped coastal communities like Bay St. Louis and Waveland and dumped heavy rain on the already soggy ground.
Thousands of residents in south Mississippi remained without power, officials said. […]
The Mississippi Link Editor, Gail Brown’s going away celebration was held on Friday, August 24. The event was held at The Mississippi Link office location, 2659 Livingston Road in Jackson, Mississippi.
Brown has taken a position as a director of a non profit program located in the Mississippi delta. […]
TAMPA, Fla. — With the Republican National Convention at last in full-throated roar, nominee Mitt Romney and his team are reaching out in all directions to connect with key voting groups including veterans, Hispanics and women while gleefully mocking the man he is out to defeat in November. […]
Mini Series – Part four
Disaster preparedness while remembering ‘grandma’
By Gail Brown
Special to The Mississippi Link
As severe weather looms over the metro and surrounding areas, Gentiva Hospice Executive Director Janet Butts and her staff were busy making sure their patients were safe, secure and had the supplies needed in case of a disaster. […]
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