Jackson Free Press

TV Anchor Dies From Injuries After Attack

Anne Pressly was only 26. From CNN:

Increase of Drug Use Among Teenage Girls

A Lifescript article sheds light on this issue.

So you want to donate to NAMIWalks, but you're afraid to donate online…

Good news! You can mail your donation, and if you include a note saying that it is for The Church Triumphant team, my team will still get credit for it. …

New [FLY] Gifts Flip-Guide: Helping You Shop Local for the Holidays

As if a growing weekly paper, a busy online Daily and a wildly popular quarterly glossy weren't enough, today we introduced a new kind of publication to help Jacksonians shop …

Blogger's Block

It's indecisiveness at it best, people...

Believe me, it's not that I don't have anything to blog about. I have TOO MUCH to blog about. Deciding which subjects would be best is the issue.

Online Store Commemmorates JFD 5

Go here to see the merchandise. My inspiration came from this JFP article.

ARTICLE: The Smoking Scourge Among Urban Blacks

Why do more than half of poor, young blacks smoke cigarettes, mainly Newport menthol cigarettes, and flavored cigarillos like Black and Mild, something I never heard of until I had …

The Birthday That Never Came

If you live in Samoa and your birthday is Dec. 30, I send my condolences. From ABC News Australia:

Barbour Signs First Bill: Private Prisons

(Jackson, Miss.) -- Governor Haley Barbour signed House Bill 544, the Tallahatchie County Correctional Authority Bill, into law today making it his first piece of legislation to sign into law …

I Made Up My Mind, Again

The past two weeks have been crazy: work, essays to write, babysitting, sinusitis... you name it, I had it. Yet, somewhere in the midst of that, I remembered that on …

Wellness Project: Week 3

Last week, I said that I wanted a fancy, colorful book to write my prayers in, but then I realized that I could decorate my own book. I have paint …

Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda

In a recent JFP Radio broadcast, Todd played a song by Vasti Jackson called "My Computer Turned On Me." I can really relate to this right now since my eMac …

Getting It Together

I haven't been as consistent with my Road to Wellness goals as I should have been. Actually, I forget about them quite often. I totally forgot about finding a new …

There's No Such Thing As Too Much Cowbell

The folks behind "The Coach O Song" strike again with the "New Mississippi State Bulldogs Fight Song."

Bill Kehoe

Bill Kehoe, an important part of Jackson and its music scene, passed away at St. Dominic's Hospital Wednesday afternoon.

New Bids Sought for Convention Center Hotel

Two months after the city of Jackson unveiled an agreement with a developer to build a long-awaited downtown convention center hotel, those plans are temporarily on hold.

Jackson's New Chiefs

Jackson's first responders have new bosses. In his first official appointments, newly sworn in Mayor Chokwe Lumumba appointed interim chiefs to the Jackson Police Department and Jackson Fire Department.

Jazz and Soul

Memphis native Pam Confer has always been in love with jazz. She started out in school performing with the choir in high school and college, and now Confer, 42, performs …

MSU Stars

The last few weeks have been rewarding for Mississippi State University. Good news started coming the Bulldogs' way even before the Thanksgiving holiday.

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New Year's Eve Events

930 Blues Café's New Year's Eve Bash featuring Rick Lawson, "The Baby of the Blues." Call 601-948-3344 for more info.