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Special to The Mississippi Link Focusing on prevention, enforcement, and treatment, the Senate unanimously approved the formation of a Senate Drug Policy Committee. Senate Resolution 1 creates a committee to develop legislation, policies, and programs […]

Jackson Public Schools will hold a dedication program for the naming of three new schools at 11:30 a.m., Friday, January 16, in the Supreme Court Chambers on the second floor of the New Capitol. A […]

Received by Newsfinder from AP HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) – Funeral services are set Wednesday for the son of slain civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer Sr., who died defending his family from the Klan in 1966. […]

Special to The Mississippi Link WASHINGTON, D.C., December 19, 2008 – The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) mourns the loss of CBS News journalist and former NABJ board member Mark Griffith, found dead of […]

Associated Press – January 6, 2009 3:04 PM ET JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Former Hinds County District Attorney Ed Peters has given up his law license over an undisclosed complaint. Peters has been linked by […]

The Mississippi Link The late Michael “Mikey” Johnson, a talented Murrah High School athlete whose “first love” was baseball, is noted for making the decisive free-throws in the final seconds of Murrah’s win of the […]

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 […]