TAMPA, Fla. — With the Republican National Convention at last in full-throated roar, nominee Mitt Romney and his team are reaching out in all directions to connect with key voting groups including veterans, Hispanics and women while gleefully mocking the man he is out to defeat in November. […]
Mini Series – Part four
Disaster preparedness while remembering ‘grandma’
By Gail Brown
Special to The Mississippi Link
As severe weather looms over the metro and surrounding areas, Gentiva Hospice Executive Director Janet Butts and her staff were busy making sure their patients were safe, secure and had the supplies needed in case of a disaster. […]
The first confirmed death attributed to Hurricane Isaac in Louisiana was reported in Vermilon Parish.
Sheriff Mike Couvillon says a 36-year-old man had gone to help two friends move a vehicle from under a tree to prepare for Isaac on Tuesday, and fell to his death after climbing 18 feet up the tree. […]
A local television station is going off the air at the end of the month.
WKDH is the ABC station.
Its owner, Southern Broadcasting, says it will end broadcasting at 11:59 p.m. on August 31 after more than a decade on the air. […]
Mississippi’s Attorney General Jim Hood said Wednesday evening that two business owners have been arrested for over charging customers during Hurricane Isaac.
The first arrest occurred in Jackson when Rajinder Singh, 50, of Madison was arrested at his place of business, Fuel Time Gas Station, on Bullard Street. […]
Authorities said a Greenwood man accused of raping his ex-girlfriend on several different occasions is scheduled for his preliminary hearing on Wednesday, Sept. 5.
Demetrius Harley, 35, is being held without bond on seven counts of sexual battery, two counts of possession of a weapon by a felon and shooting into a dwelling. […]
Officials in Meridian and Lauderdale County want details from the Justice Department to back up its allegations local students’ rights have been violated by jailing them for school infractions.
Earlier this month the Justice Department said officials in east Mississippi operate a “school-to-prison pipeline” that incarcerated students – mostly black and disabled – for minor school disciplinary infractions, including dress code violations and using profanity.
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While shelters are filling up in Hancock County, emergency management officials in Harrison and Jackson counties have ordered a mandatory evacuation.
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said the storm’s center – with winds near 80 mph – reached land at 6:45 p.m. Tuesday in Plaquemines Parish, about 90 miles southeast of New Orleans.
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Attorney General Jim Hood wishes to inform Mississippians included in the designated emergency impact area created by Issac that the current State of Emergency does not allow his office to enforce the price gouging statute. […]
From Media Reports OCEAN SPRINGS – With the threat of Isaac looming overhead, city officials on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast are preparing for the worst. Governor Phil Bryant has already declared a state of emergency as […]
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