HOUSTON – Parents from the Houston School District are calling for the termination of a substitute teacher that allegedly used a racial slur when addressing a group of fifth grade students. Officials said the Houston […]
News Briefs From Across The State Nearly 350 workers let go in two years Viking Range Corporation in Leflore County announced that 20 more employees were being laid off from their plant’s hourly workforce. Bill […]
JACKSON – A UMC Hospital employee is dead after authorities said her husband killed her and then shot himself in an attempted murder-suicide. Authorities said a family member found 45-year old Sharon Kelly in the […]
News Briefs From Across the State A woman who worked as a criminal investigator at Parchman State Penitentiary, was arrested and charged with two counts of introducing contraband into the prison. Chandrina Perry, 30, of […]
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is offering $900 million in grants to states and school districts to turn around low-performing schools — but recipients would have to take drastic action, such as replacing principals, reopening […]
(JACKSON, Miss.) – President Barack Obama announced his intent on February 26 to appoint Jackson State University President Ronald Mason Jr. to the President’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU). Mason […]
MERIDIAN, Miss. (AP) – The Meridian Public School District has fired its superintendent. Charlie Kent had held the district’s top administrative job since July 2008. School board vice president Don Evans announced Friday that Kent […]
BATON ROUGE — The 18th Annual National Association of African American Studies (NAAAS) Conference was recently held in Baton Rouge, La. The Crowne Plaza Executive Center Hotel flourished with young scholars from around the globe, […]
JACKSON, Miss. – “Healthcare is not about health. Healthcare is about defeating Obama, and making him a one-term president,” said Ambassador Andrew Young at Jackson State University, Thursday, Feb. 25. “Everybody needs healthcare!” he added, […]
JACKSON – A Jefferson County woman was arrested Thursday and charged with Medicaid fraud, Attorney General Jim Hood said. Kristina Stampley, 28, of Fayatte, turned herself in to investigators following an indictment by the Pike […]
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