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The Associated Press JACKSON – Smoking in restaurants is now banned in the city of Jackson. However, smoking in stand-alone bars is OK. The city council voted 6-1 Tuesday to implement a partial smoking ban. […]

While most American will be preparing for upcoming Independence Day celebrations, effective July 1, immigrants in Mississippi will be bracing for a life of uncertainties. Will they be able to work or will they go […]

It has been dubbed one of Jackson’s premier events, and it takes place tonight, Thursday, June 26 at 7:14 What is it? It is the Mu Sigma Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.’s Sixth […]

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 […]