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News Briefs From Across The State Parents approved of disciplinary action A West Amory principal is fighting to get her job back after she was fired for disciplining a student. Even though the student’s parents approved […]

News Briefs From Across The State Woman was from Golden, Miss. Officials are still looking into what caused the death of a 35-year old Tishomingo County woman who was found dead in a Super 8 […]

RIDGELAND – The Ridgeland Police Department (RPD) has confirmed that Jobie Martin is “deceased.”   However an officer answering the phone at RPD told The Mississippi Link that the official details will not be available until […]

JACKSON – A Meridian man will spend the next 10 years behind bars for fraud, Attorney General Jim Hood said. Eldredge Simon, 29, plead guilty to two counts of fraudulent use of identity before Judge […]

JACKSON – Authorities said a man has been arrested and charged with murder after a woman was found stabbed to death behind a church in Port Gibson. After a two week investigation, the Mississippi Bureau […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – One year after President Barack Obama signed his historic, and still controversial Affordable Care Act into law, United States Representative Bennie G. Thompson reiterated his continued support of the act that was […]

VANCLEAVE – For the second time in recent weeks, another Gulf Coast substitute teacher has been charged with sexual misconduct with a student. Twenty-three year old Darryl Ford Brady II was arrested for allegedly passing notes […]

COLUMBUS – A Lowndes County woman who said she was kidnapped, beaten and shot at in December 2010, was arrested in court for lying about the incident. Paris Easterwood, 18, was taken into custody on March […]

JACKSON – The governor’s office has little to say about the resignation of its press secretary last week after he made an off-color ‘joke’ about the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan that killed about 7,000 people. […]

Despite the passage of the FCC’s National Broadband Plan one year ago, many Americans, particularly in minority and underserved communities, continue to be disconnected from the rest of the digital world. This is particularly relevant […]