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AP NEW YORK – Seven students have been punished for violating the code of conduct at Oprah Winfrey’s school for disadvantaged girls in South Africa. A representative for Winfrey says four students were recently expelled […]

BOSTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s aunt will be allowed to remain in the United States until at least next year as she awaits a chance to make her case before an immigration judge in […]

MAGEE, MS (AP) – A tornado destroyed dozens of homes and businesses in a small Mississippi community early Thursday, injuring several people and flattening a church although there were no immediate reports of fatalities. A […]

Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Governor Haley Barbour is expected Monday to survey tornado damage in Simpson County. Almost 30 people were injured and dozens of homes and other structures were damaged or destroyed […]

AP McCOMB, MS (AP) – A McComb man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for stabbing a former childhood friend in the face with a wooden shish-kebab skewer at a department store. A […]

Monica Land Contributing Writer Seventeenth century poet John Dryden once said, “Justice is blind and knows nobody.” But for many, justice is not blind, especially in the state of Mississippi, where in recent years so […]

AP JACKSON, Miss. (AP) _ The Jackson Fire Department is short more than a dozen captains and seven district chiefs, almost half the number of station managers it is budgeted to have. The shortage of […]

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is trying to dampen a fire he once stoked, urging a more tempered response to public furor over bonuses paid to executives of the publicly rescued insurance giant American International […]

Jackson, Mississippi – Marshand Crisler held a press conference today in front of the Jackson Police Department to roll out his comprehensive plan to prevent and reduce crime in Jackson. Crisler was joined by community […]

WAPT.com JACKSON, Miss. — The Jackson Democratic Committee disqualified Jackson Mayor Frank Melton from the May 5 Democratic primary. WAPT was the only station present for the announcement late Tuesday afternoon when the party said […]