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Can MTC Fix Woodville Prison?

A Utah-based private-prison firm hopes that it can turn things around at the Wilkinson County Correctional Center in Woodville.

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How Will the ‘Unbanked’ Buy Insurance on the Exchanges?

One in five households in the United States, or about 51 million adults have only a tenuous relationship with a traditional bank, relying instead on check-cashing stores and money lenders, ...

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Holden Grimes

For Holden Grimes, 11, eating healthy and staying fit—and encouraging his peers to do the same—is a big part of his life.

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It's the Weekend!

Today, Taste of Spring is from 6-9 p.m. at Metrocenter Mall near Center Court.

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The Odd Way UMMC Buys Stuff

The quagmire that ensnared Jackson mayoral candidate Jonathan Lee's family business, Mississippi Products, raises questions about the relationships between government agencies, group purchasing organizations and intermediary distributors such as MPI.

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Valley Title Building Has New Owner, No Water

The long-dormant Valley Title Building, located at 315 Tombigbee St., will not have taxpayer-paid utility services—but it does have a new owner. However, officials from Hinds County, which owns the ...

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Analysis: Lumumba Won Despite White Voter Spike

This week's Democratic primary runoff saw a huge spike in white voter turnout while black turnout held steady. But the effect on the results seemed negligible: Councilman Chokwe Lumumba defeated ...

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A Prolonged Stay: The Reasons Behind the Slow Pace of Executions

States that impose the death penalty have been facing a crisis in recent years: They are short on the drugs used in executions.

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Millsaps Baseball Team

Millsaps has been on a roll this baseball season. The Majors won the Southern Athletic Association regular season title and earned the number-one seed in the Southern Athletic Association Baseball ...

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Glory to Arstotzka!

"Papers, Please" is simple but brilliant as a dystopian document thriller.

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Kids Being Creative: FIGMENT 2013

FIGMENT 2013 stretched nearly five blocks, much more spread out than it had been in past years, when it was held in the old Coke plant on Highway 80.

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Was Hinds' Circuit Courthouse Sabotaged?

The elevators in the Hinds County Circuit Court building are hanging on by a thread. For weeks, the elevators have been plagued with issues that appear to be a combination ...

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Common CORE to Standardize Public Education

Mississippi is consistently behind the eight ball when it comes to public education, but a new plan being implemented right now could change our students' educational outcomes in the future.

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Anne Welch

Anne Welch believes Jackson has the potential to be one of the country's great biking cities.

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Lumumba Wins Democratic Primary; Presumptive Mayor of Jackson

Chokwe Lumumba never trailed Jonathan Lee in the Democratic runoff.

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Hickingbottom Behind Anti-Lumumba PAC

In the final hours of the Jackson mayoral election, a group called Citizens for a Better Jackson is making a push to beat back gains made by Ward 7 Councilman ...

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Hospital Grant, Miso, Children's Museum Expansion and Mississippi Power Co.

Miso, a new restaurant owned and operated by Grant Nooe, owner of Grant's Kitchen, opened for both lunch and dinner Monday.

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Mary Katherine Kerce

Mary Katherine Kerce of Jackson was recently among 59 University of Mississippi students to receive a 2013 Taylor Medal--the university's highest academic award--during the 70th annual Honors Convocation at the ...

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Campaign Trickery: Lumumba a 'Race Traitor,' Lee a 'Rankin Republican'?

Supporters of men who are vying to be Jackson's next mayor were busy over the weekend with last-minute election trickery, some anonymous and some not, with much of it targeting ...

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Traffic Noise Increases Risk of Diabetes

Noise from honking cars and police sirens can disrupt sleep, but it also may increase the chance of developing diabetes, according to a large study from Denmark.

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