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Associated Press LUCEDALE, MS (AP) – Prosecutors say they have turned over investigation files on the death of star Mississippi high school football player Billey Joe Johnson Jr. to the U.S. attorney’s office. Assistant district […]

Jackson, MS—Local elected officials, business and community leaders and some of the most prominent child advocacy organization in the city are gathering March 3, 2009, to set an acti on plan for increasing the area’s […]

Associated Press WASHINGTON – Invoking his own name-and-shame policy, President Barack Obama warned the nation’s mayors on Friday that he will “call them out” if they waste the money from his massive economic stimulus plan. […]

The Associated Press JACKSON (AP) — A federal judge refused Tuesday to dismiss the civil rights case against Jackson Mayor Frank Melton in a sledgehammer attack on a duplex that the self-proclaimed get-tough-on-crime politician considered […]

By SHELIA BYRD Associated Press Writer LUCEDALE, Miss. (AP) Pursuing allegations of a civil rights violation or filing a lawsuit are two options the Mississippi NAACP will discuss with the family of a high school […]

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 […]