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The Mississippi Link Wet road conditions contributed to a JATRAN bus hydroplaning in Jackson. The bus is said to have flipped on Wednesday morning causing injury to eight people, including the bus driver. Police say that […]

Jackson’s Jim Hill High School Class of 1969 celebrated its 40th year class reunion on July 10-12, 2009 at the Marriott Hotel downtown Jackson. Classmates reconnected throughout the week as several residing outside Mississippi arrived […]

During the summer months,conventions are being held across the country bringing conventioneers to various sites to conduct business and make decisions that will help to secure the success of their organizations. During July 20 – […]

Special to the Mississippi Link Chet Dillard, President of UMMC The 10th gathering of United Methodist Men was held at Belmont Collge instead of Purdue University for the first time in its 40 year history. […]

BOSTON – Black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. is accusing a Massachusetts police department of racism after being arrested while trying to get into his locked home near Harvard University. Police say they were called […]

Associated Press WASHINGTON – Defense Secretary Robert Gates has announced that the size of the Army is being increased by 22,000 to help meet deployment needs around the world. Gates made the disclosure Monday at […]

NEW YORK – Saying that civil rights leaders from decades past paved the way for his election as the nation’s first black commander in chief, President Barack Obama paid homage to the NAACP and advised […]

WASHINGTON – Unemployment topped 10 percent in 15 states and the District of Columbia last month, according to federal data released Friday. The rate in Michigan surpassed 15 percent, the first time any state hit […]

Special to The Mississippi Link Kay Crotwell, director of swimming instructors at Courthouse Racquet & Fitness, has organized a team of six volunteer instructors to provide swimming lessons free of charge to the members of […]

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama turned to the Deep South for the next surgeon general, choosing a rural Alabama family physician who made headlines with fierce determination to rebuild her nonprofit medical clinic in the […]