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Associated Press JACKSON, MS (AP)  The federal trial of Jackson Mayor Frank Melton, accused of leading a sledgehammer attack on a suspected crack house, resumes Tuesday when defense attorneys present their side of the high […]

CLARENCE, N.Y. – A commuter plane dropped out of the sky without warning and nose-dived into a suburban Buffalo house in a fiery crash that killed all 49 people aboard and one person in the […]

Special to The Mississippi Link Governor Haley Barbour will hold a press conference in Meridian to announce a major economic development project. The press conference will be held at 9 a.m. Friday, February 13, 2009, […]

AP JACKSON, Miss. (AP)  A key government witness who confidently told a jury that Mayor Frank Melton was drunk the night he led a raid on a purported crack house gave conflicting testimony last year […]

WASHINGTON – Recession-battered employers eliminated 598,000 jobs in January, the most since the end of 1974, and catapulted the unemployment rate to 7.6 percent. The grim figures were further proof that the nation’s job climate […]

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama warned on Thursday that failure to act on an economic recovery package could plunge the nation into a long-lasting recession that might prove irreversible, a fresh call to a recalcitrant […]

WASHINGTON – Call it the maximum wage. President Barack Obama wants to impose a $500,000 pay cap on executives whose firms receive government financial rescue funds, a dramatic intervention into corporate governance in the midst […]

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Wednesday imposed $500,000 caps on senior executive pay for the most distressed financial institutions receiving federal bailout money, saying Americans are upset with “executives being rewarded for failure.” Obama […]

WASHINGTON – Nancy Killefer, who failed for a year and a half to pay employment taxes on household help, withdrew her candidacy to be the first chief performance officer for the federal government on Tuesday. […]

WASHINGTON – A top Republican called for more mortgage relief and additional tax cuts in President Barack Obama’s massive economic stimulus package as Democrats conceded privately they will drop items that have drawn bipartisan criticism. […]