Entertainment

Writer Erica Kennedy found dead in home

From The New York Times MIAMI, Fla. – Erica Kennedy, a music writer turned novelist who came to wide attention in 2004 with the publication of her first novel, “Bling,” a satirical roman à clef about […]

News

Jackson matriarch succumbs at age 103

Funeral services set for Monday, June 18 by Gail M. Brown Editor Longtime Jackson resident Bernice Mae Allen Stimley died Wednesday morning, June 13, in a Jackson-area hospital. Stimley was 103-years-old. A native of Meehan […]

Education

Former education leader dies at 86

LAKE – (AP) E.E. “Tad” Thrash, who led Mississippi’s higher education system for 19 years as it struggled with desegregation issues related to historic black colleges, died Tuesday, May 2. He was 86. Officials with […]