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When Vaiden native Melvin Hawthorne ran for political office more than six months ago, he didn’t set out to make history. But that’s exactly what he’s done. Elected this June as the mayor of Vaiden […]

DURANT – Police are still investigating the murder of a Goodman man who was shot and killed after leaving a local convenience store earlier this month. Rodmekus Kitchens, 29, was pronounced dead at UMC Hospital […]

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Special to The Mississippi Link Mayor Harvey Johnson, Jr. shared his selections for Jackson School Board Members last night during the City Council meeting. Johnson re-appointed Jonathan Larkin to serve out the remaining year and […]

BELZONI – A woman who was arrested for perjury during the capital murder trial of a Winona man last September plead guilty to those charges in court on Monday. Mary Annette Purnell, of Winona, and […]

Gene “Geno” Lee, proprietor of the Big Apple Inn, in Jackson, Miss., is a fourth generation Farish Street restaurateur, famous for pig ear sandwiches and smoked sausage sandwiches. The famous delicacies recently garnered Lee and […]

MVSU Public Relations Department Mississippi Valley State University President Donna H. Oliver said her administration is committed to being responsive to the state’s current fiscal challenges while also maintaining its profile of autonomy in support […]

HOLMES COUNTY – A Yalobusha man was killed and his brother seriously injured after authorities said they were allegedly gunned down during a drug deal earlier this week. A suspect is being questioned in that […]

YAZOO COUNTY – District Attorney James Powell exclusively told The Mississippi Link on Friday that his investigation of a Yazoo County deputy who killed a man during a domestic related call last month is over. […]

WAPT.com JACKSON, Miss. — One woman is dead after a late-night wreck Sunday. It happened just after 9 p.m near the Bailey Avenue and Northside Drive intersection in North Jackson. Jackson police took one man […]