Sports

Klitschko defeats Jennings 2015 to keep heavyweight boxing titles

NEW YORK (AP) — The champ returned to the Garden, and it sounded and felt like Kiev. Ukraine’s Wladimir Klitschko easily outpointed a game-but-outclassed Bryant Jennings in the champion’s first fight in the United States […]

Business

Business community, churches dispute over feeding homeless

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – The business community and local churches in Jackson are at odds over feeding the homeless at Smith Park. The Clarion-Ledger (http://on.thec-l.com/1bEwH0p) reports some local businesses have been complaining of trash and […]

Entertainment

OPENING THIS WEEK: Kam’s Kapsules

Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun   by Kam Williams For movies opening May 1, 2015   BIG BUDGET FILMS     Avengers: Age of Ultron (PG-13 for suggestive comments and intense violence, action and scenes […]

Entertainment

Kevin Hart Poses as Best Man in Irreverent Romp Arriving on DVD

The Wedding Ringer DVD Review by Kam Williams Doug Harris (Josh Gad) and Gretchen Palmer (Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting) are putting the finishing touches on their impending wedding. Trouble is the socially-challenged groom has yet to find a […]

Sports

Courtney Pruitt named Alcorn State women’s basketball coach

The Mississippi Link Newswire Alcorn State University’s search for a new head women’s basketball coach concluded with a seasoned individual with extensive college coaching experience, most recently as the head women’s coach at Wiley College […]

News

Mississippi Latest News

COMMON CORE Bryant vetoes bill he calls weak on ditching Common Core JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Gov. Phil Bryant has vetoed a bill that might have put some distance between Mississippi schools and the Common […]

Health

Elementary school student dies from bacterial meningitis

TUNICA, Miss. (AP) – The Mississippi Department of Health says a 7-year-old elementary school student has died from bacterial meningitis, but cautions the strain is not contagious. WREG-TV in Memphis (http://bit.ly/1GoW3wh) reports the student attended […]