Education

Civil rights history tour in Hattiesburg

HATTIESBURG – (AP) A new audio driving tour highlights 15 locations that played a crucial part in Mississippi civil rights, including a 1964 drive to register black voters in the state. The Hattiesburg American reports […]

Business

Worker dies at Omega Protein plant

By Monica Land MOSS POINT – Authorities have confirmed that a 24-year-old man died while working at Jackson County seafood plant, but they’re not releasing how. Jackson County Coroner Vicki Broadus said Christopher Herbert died at […]

Local Sports

Rodney Hood leaving Mississippi State

Mississippi State News STARKVILLE – Freshman guard Rodney Hood is leaving Mississippi State, the team confirmed Sunday night. Hood, from Meridian, was the Bulldogs’ third-leading scorer in 2011-12, averaging 10.3 points a game. That averaged […]

News

Air guardsman dies at Camp Shelby

HATTIESBURG – (AP) A Mississippi Air National Guardsman has died while performing duties at the Air-Ground Range at Camp Shelby south of Mississippi. The National Guard says in a news release that Master Sgt. Kevin […]

News

Rice and 3rd man plead guilty in murder of James Craig Anderson

From The Mississippi Link Newswire  WASHINGTON, D.C., – The Justice Department announced that besides 19-year-old Deryl Paul Dedmon, John Aaron Rice, 19, and Dylan Wade Butler, 20, all from Brandon, Mississippi, pleaded guilty in U.S. […]