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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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]