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Person of the Day
Theresa G. Kennedy
The Women's Business Center of Mississippi named entrepreneur and activist Theresa Kennedy as the organization's new director on March 1.
Jacksonian
Vernon Hartley Sr.
Vernon Hartley Sr., an environmentalist and community activist who has served as a Jackson Municipal Airport Authority commissioner since 2014, traveled to Hong Kong on March 8 to serve as …
Board Apologizes After Flap Over Separate Low-Income School
A Mississippi school board is apologizing after the superintendent was quoted saying the district might consider an optional separate school to try to boost low-income students' academic achievement.
Education
'Grow Where You're Planted,' Mississippi Gov Tells Students
Gov. Phil Bryant is imploring high-achieving college students to remain in Mississippi after graduation and build their careers in the state.
Mourners to Pay Respects Friday to Late Justice Scalia
In a day of ceremony and tribute, the casket carrying Justice Antonin Scalia will lie in repose at the Supreme Court where he spent nearly three decades as one of …
Cover
Needed: A More Open Mississippi
Legally, under federal and state law, taxpayers are entitled to full access to what governments employees are doing at pretty much all times, and with few and specific exceptions.
Chinese MH370 Relatives Reject Word that Passengers are Dead
About 100 Chinese families of passengers on the missing Malaysian airliner demanded Friday that Malaysian officials retract their statement that all aboard died, saying that without hard evidence they don't …
Politics
Writings Define Mississippi’s Emotions
State Supreme Court Justice Randy "Bubba" Pierce, a Greene County native, is a writer and his latest novel, "Mississippi Mud," defines state politics in the very sense of this state's …
Jacksonian
William Walker
For William Walker, it was the soundtracks of movies such as "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones"—not their big-budget action sequences and explosions—that enamored him.
Jacksonian
Merchell Pittman
Merchell Pittman, a program support assistant at the G. V. (Sonny) Montgomery VA Medical Center, says some of the greatest lessons in her life have come from her nearly two …
Person of the Day
Charlette Oswalt
Charlette Oswalt wants to shake up Hinds County leadership as the first woman elected as sheriff.
Croatia Opens Border with Serbia, Thousands Rush Across
Croatia opened its border with Serbia for migrants on Monday, letting in thousands who have been stranded for nearly two days and partially clearing the human bottleneck that has been …
Men: Don’t Wait on Women to Act
Mississippi is only as strong as our women. And right now, by most economic and social indicators, Mississippi is not very strong.
Style
Halloween Happs
The city of Jackson will trick or treat Oct. 31. Halloween events include a Trunk-or-Treat—an event where children go to a location and trick or treat from the trunks of …
State
MDOC Move Draws Fire from Hinds County
Officials with the Hinds County Sheriff's Office are blasting a decision from the state corrections commissioner to end a program that provides inmate labor to the county.
Blues Legend B.B. King Honored with Memphis Processional
A Dixieland jazz band walked ahead of a slow black hearse and a crowd of thousands followed as the city of Memphis said farewell Wednesday to blues legend B.B. King …
Crime
Animal Rights Group Alleges Mistreatment in Miss.
An animal rights group said Monday that it is filing complaints in courts in Forrest and Pontotoc counties against two livestock auctions sites where it alleges cows, sheep and other …
Detroit's Historic Bankruptcy Trial Begins
Opening statements in Detroit's historic bankruptcy trial began Tuesday afternoon in federal court, where lawyers for the city will attempt to convince a judge that its plans to wipe out …
10 Years Ago: Debating the Convention Center
Convention business in the U.S. is indeed tough, most convention centers lose money, and the economic benefit of a convention center can vary dramatically.
Person of the Day
Anne Moody
The Mississippi legislature passed a bill to name a stretch of highway in Wilkinson County after Anne Moody, a civil-rights activist who wrote a memoir titled "Coming of Age in …
