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Hinds County Chancery Judge Dewayne Thomas has ordered that a popular Jackson nightclub be shut down, calling the club a “public nuisance.” On Monday June 16, 2008, Thomas issued a court order that The Upper […]

Special to the Mississippi Link U. S. Representative Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) announced that the Mississippi Institutes of Higher Learning (IHL) – Academic and Student Affairs GEAR UP MS has been selected to receive funding […]

Office of the Governor While an increase in tobacco taxes to fund Medicaid is being talked about, no such proposal has passed either house of the Legislature during the current Special Session. In fact, most […]

Special to the Mississippi Link Top country, gospel and rock entertainment takes the stage this year at the 59th Annual Mississippi Choctaw Indian Fair in beautiful Choctaw, Miss. on July 9-12, 2008. A new twist […]

During the kickoff of today’s Juneteeth celebration at the Northside Library, 807 East Northside Drive, Jackson Mayor Frank Melton told The Mississippi Link (ML) he has found the money, and he will be starting the […]

For years, critics have argued that Mississippi lags behind all other states when it comes to progress – economic other otherwise. And last week, some state and health officials argued that Mississippi is imposing a […]

Associated Press CHICAGO – A jury acquitted R. Kelly on all counts of child pornography after less than a day of deliberations Friday, ending an ordeal for the R&B superstar that began when he was […]

WASHINGTON – Tim Russert, who pointedly but politely questioned hundreds of the powerful and influential as moderator of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” died Friday of an apparent heart attack. The network’s Washington bureau chief was […]

OMAHA, Neb. — First came the shock, then the grief. As dozens of people injured in a tornado at an Iowa Boy Scout camp recovered, families and friends tried to make sense of the deaths […]

Rev. Ozie G. Wattleton, after years of traveling in the ministry and leaving the East Atlanta Church of God as founding pastor, has returned to the Farmhaven community in East Madison County where her life […]