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Special to The Mississippi Link The Board of Trustees of Jackson Public Schools has selected Dr. Lonnie J. Edwards, Education Program Specialist with the Georgia Department of Education, to serve as the district’s next superintendent, […]

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Democratic candidate Barack Obama doesn’t want the embattled mayor of Detroit on hand when Obama accepts the party’s presidential nomination in Denver. A spokesman for Obama said Thursday that Detroit Mayor […]

While United States swimmer Michael Phelps is in China winning the most golds ever, a young Jackson, Miss. youth just might be a gold medalist in the making. Jylin Whitlock, 10, a fourth-grader at Wilkins […]

In what is viewed as a quick acquisition, the 80-year old Edison Walthall Hotel, located at 225 East Capital Street, Jackson, Miss., was recently sold. During a 11 a.m. press conference Tuesday, Aug. 12, Michael […]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – There was a time when Zach Scruggs seemed poised to follow his father to the top of the legal profession. Instead, he reports to prison Friday for knowing about the judicial […]

WASHINGTON – John Edwards says he made a serious error in judgment when he had an affair and is ashamed of his conduct. In a statement, the former Democratic presidential candidate also said he informed […]

Published: Saturday, August 9, 2008 11:05 PM EDT CHICAGO — Bernie Mac, the actor and comedian who teamed up in the casino heist caper “Ocean’s Eleven” and gained a prestigious Peabody Award for his sitcom […]

BELZONI, Miss. – Ethel Heard’s family and friends of Belzoni, Miss. say they do not understand how a Leflore County jury let the man walk free who killed her by shooting into the occupied, moving […]

VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) — When the Rev. Malcolm O’Leary, S.V.D., decided he wanted to become a priest in 1947, there was only one seminary in the country that would accept him. “I just fought it […]

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) _ Gov. Haley Barbour said Tuesday that he believes Democratic leaders in the Mississippi House are playing politics with his plan to fill a $90 million hole in the state’s Medicaid program. […]