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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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

The Associated Press Amid fresh assembly line layoffs, congressional Democrats and the White House groped for a compromise Friday on bailout billions for the beleaguered auto industry. President George W. Bush warned that at least […]

The Mississippi Link In light of the national headlines regarding teens in Minnesota charged with nursing home abuse, and the fact that just this week, the Mississippi State Attorney General released two press notices regarding […]

Associated Press – December 4, 2008 1:43 PM ET ALBERT LEA, Minn. (AP) – Two teenage girls who worked at a Minnesota nursing home are charged with abusing patients there. The girls, a 19-year-old and […]