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Fresh Produce in Byram

The Byram Farmers Market (20 Willow Creek Lane, Byram, 601-373-4545) has been open for seven years and is off Siwell Road behind BankPlus. The market is open Monday through Saturday …

Person of the Day

Rick Comegy

Coaching football is the one profession where the common question is "what have you done lately?" Jackson State University knows the answer to that question. Coach Rick Comegy led Jackson …

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2013 Chick Ball Donations

Here are some of this year's Chick Ball donations.

With the 9th Annual JFP Chick Ball coming up on Saturday, July 20, the donations have been arriving fast. Here is a list of the donations and donors we have …

Talk

Talking It Out

Hakeem and Matthew have been fighting. Seated in a classroom at Blackburn Middle School, the two eighth-grade boys explain the origins of their conflict, an ever-escalating series of slights.

Cover

A Second Chance

When Hinds County animal-control officers pick up a dog, they take it to a temporary shelter at the county Penal Farm in Raymond. The county shelter houses between 700 and …

Music

Serendipity's Sweet Sixteen

It took less than two minutes for Bertha McDonald and May Jean Zehnder to realize that their art instructor Tony DiFatta was in the building. He'd told them that he …

Sports

Turn up the Heat

Two quarterbacks could decide their teams' games on Saturday. But only one of them will be playing.

Don't Miss It

Two Faces of Opera

Jackson hosts diverse operas from two different continents Saturday, April 21.

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Seale Wants Freedom

The flawed record of Dr. Stephen Hayne was at issue when James Ford Seale took his 2007 conviction before the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals this week.

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The New Colin Farrell

I can harldy stop giggling long enough to post this story.

Politics

Millsaps Grads Win ‘Quiz Me,' Get Debate Tickets

[Verbatim] After correctly answering 106 questions during a quiz bowl competition, two Millsaps grads have received two highly coveted tickets to the first presidential debate on Friday.

Crime

JPD Probing Irby Crash Investigation

The Jackson Police Department is conducting an internal investigation of one of its own officers' work in reconstructing a Feb. 11, 2009, car crash that took the lives of two …

Justice

Broken Katrina Promises

Racial discrimination, housing crises and neglect of prisoner rights in the wake of Katrina is the subject of a new ACLU report released Monday, Aug. 20. In anticipation of the …

Culture

Shining Stars

On Saturday, April 2, the stars will shine for those looking for a glamorous, star-studded way to spend the evening when Tougaloo College hosts the third annual Two Rivers Gala …

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The Mysterious (and Noisy) New Duo

When the indie group Youth Lagoon performed at the Cats Purring Dude Ranch in Oxford, Miss., they needed an opening act. At the time, ILLLS was just a side project …

Editor's Note

Stop Being a Regular

Everywhere I go, I see people who are not satisfied with where they are. My friends in New Orleans can't wait until they can move to New York or Japan, …

Development

Farish in 2012?

Jacksonians have heard plans, proposals and promises about a reborn Farish Street for the better part of two decades. Less than four years after purchasing the project from Performa, Watkins …

Sports

The Big 13 Games

The tastiest morsels on this season's state college football menu.

Fly

The Reverend's Chocolate Spirit for Two

Ingredients:3 oz Godiva Original Chocolate Liqueur3 oz Stolichnaya vodka1 1/2 oz crème de cocoa1/2 oz Bailey's Irish Crème