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Gail M. Brown, Editor When motorists drive past Black’s Chapel Church and Westhaven Memorial Funeral Home on Robinson Road and see numerous cars in the parking lots, most of them generally assume that there is […]

Nearly $600 Million Meant for Affordable Housing Diverted to Port Expansion Project JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi State Conference NAACP, Gulf Coast Fair Housing Center and several individual residents today filed a lawsuit in Federal […]

CHICAGO – With pressure mounting by the hour for him to resign or face impeachment, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich returned to work Thursday in what an aide described as an attempt to “return to normalcy.” […]

The Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — President-elect Barack Obama has chosen former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle to lead his effort to design an overhaul of the nation’s health care system and shepherd it through […]

The Associated Press Amid fresh assembly line layoffs, congressional Democrats and the White House groped for a compromise Friday on bailout billions for the beleaguered auto industry. President George W. Bush warned that at least […]

The Mississippi Link In light of the national headlines regarding teens in Minnesota charged with nursing home abuse, and the fact that just this week, the Mississippi State Attorney General released two press notices regarding […]

WASHINGTON – Skittish employers slashed 533,000 jobs in November, the most in 34 years, catapulting the unemployment rate to 6.7 percent, dramatic proof the country is careening deeper into recession. The new figures, released by […]

JACKSON, Miss. – It pays to go to school near an Exxon gas station. Just ask the students at Northwest Jackson Middle School. For the second consecutive year, Northwest Jackson Middle School has been on […]

Associated Press – December 4, 2008 1:43 PM ET ALBERT LEA, Minn. (AP) – Two teenage girls who worked at a Minnesota nursing home are charged with abusing patients there. The girls, a 19-year-old and […]

Victor McTeer Columnist Every four years following the election of the president, the government releases “The Plum Book,” a listing of more than 7,000 jobs that the President-Elect will fill during his or her term […]