Business

Phillips Lighting expanding, adding 50 jobs in Tupelo

TUPELO, Mississippi (AP) — Philips Lighting Co. will add 50 new jobs in a $2 million expansion of operations at its facility in Tupelo. The company says in a news release that it is expanding […]

Sports

NCAA board hands 5 biggest conferences more power

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The NCAA Board of Directors overwhelmingly approved a package of historic reforms Thursday that will give the nation’s five biggest conferences the ability to unilaterally change some of the basic rules governing […]

News

Forecasters expect slower Atlantic hurricane season than initially predicted

MIAMI (AP) — The Atlantic hurricane season will continue to be even quieter than predicted, thanks to atmospheric and oceanic conditions suppressing storm formation, federal forecasters said Thursday. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration still […]

Obituaries

Norris Lee Carson

December 11, 1940 – July 26, 2014 N.L. (Norris Lee) Carson was born to Wesley and Helen Caldwell Carson on December 11, 1940 in Leake County, Miss. He was brother to Dorothy Mae, Henry Clay, […]

Obituaries

Dr. Frank B. McCune Jr

August 31, 1942 – July 23, 2014 Major Frank B. McCune Jr., MD, affectionately known as “Doc,” was born August 31, 1942 in Jackson, to the late Frank B. McCune Sr. and Eva Jones McCune. […]

News

After 10-years, 4 billion miles, probe reaches comet

DARMSTADT, Germany (AP) — After a journey of 6.4 billion kilometers (4 billion miles), Europe’s unmanned Rosetta probe reached its destination Wednesday, a milestone in mankind’s first attempt to land a spacecraft on a comet. […]

News

FEMA provides tornado relief money to Mississippi

JACKSON, Mississippi — The Federal Emergency Management Agency has approved more than $2.43 million in Disaster Relief Fund grants to support debris removal and utility repairs in Northeast Mississippi from the April 28 tornado. The […]