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The Slate
How quickly can the Super Bowl change? The first half saw former CFL player Chris Matthews as the unknown hero and ended with Vicksburg native Malcolm Butler as the hero …
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Sports Follows of the Week
The sports world has moved to social media like everything else. Here are four Twitter follows you'll want to hit and won't regret this week
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Sports
A Sporting State
The most exciting football season in Mississippi's memory came to a fitting close Sunday night, with little-known Vicksburg and Hinds Community College product Malcolm Butler playing Super Bowl hero and …
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Music
Sam Hunt Conquers the Learning Curve
Country singer-songwriter Sam Hunt has only been performing for about seven years, but he's already made a name for himself as a certified hit-maker.
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City & County
Sketching a Plan for Jackson: The JFP Interview with Mayor Tony Yarber
Mayor Tony Yarber recently invited the Jackson Free Press to the ceremonial mayor's office on City Hall's first floor to discuss his views on napkining, infrastructure financing, his trip to …
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Don’t Politicize Special-Needs Education
Recent legislative deliberations, which come in the context of a larger debate over Mississippi's education crisis, have a whiff of election-year pandering in the same way politicians try to churn …
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Food
A Foreign Experience
Chef Yana Gilbuena worked with La Finestra on a pop-up menu which included items such as razor clams, sweet breads and duck.
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Art
Caught in the Action
For the first time in the Deep South, "Civil War Drawings from The Becker Collection" is on exhibition at the Mississippi Museum of Art.
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Politics
No Legislation Is Dead Until It’s Dead
It's election year in Mississippi, and that means that state legislators will go for the controversial jugular if it might translate into votes back in the home district.
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City & County
Despite Henley-Young Report, Frank Bluntson Says ‘I’m Calling the Shots’
On Oct. 18, 2014, a teenage boy was booked into the Henley-Young Juvenile Justice Center. The boy has bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, and the facility's medical staff did not believe …
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Education
Special Ed: ‘It’s Been a Rollercoaster’
Many educators, disability advocate Mandy Rogers said, don't know the procedures regarding students with special needs, such as what kinds of disabilities, like dyslexia, are covered under disability law.
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Jacksonian
Trish Hammons
Custom Optical has been in Fondren for 26 years, and though the store has only been in owner Trish Hammons' hands since 2006, she's made it an eyewear staple in …
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Jordan, Shaken by Islamic State Killing, Executes 2 Inmates
Jordan's king rushed home Wednesday, cutting short a U.S. trip, to rally public support for even tougher strikes against the Islamic State group after the militants released a video showing …
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City & County
Superheroes in Jackson?
I always want to imagine what it would be like if Jackson had superheroes. It's got the right atmosphere for a comic book world—varied types of architecture, slums, an overwhelming …
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Purported IS Video Shows Jordan Pilot Burned to Death
A video released online Tuesday purportedly showed a Jordanian pilot captured by the Islamic State extremist group in Syria being burned to death by his captors following a weeklong drama …
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Biz Roundup
South Jackson Kroger Closure Causes Alarm
Residents in south Jackson are working feverishly to make sure their neighborhood doesn't become a food desert when the Kroger on Terry Road closes later this month.
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Person of the Day
Rep. Deborah Dixon
Rep. Deborah Dixon's personal experience led her to work on a bill over the last few years that would revise Mississippi's hate-crime law.
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Civil Rights
Rosa Parks' Archive Opening to Public at Library of Congress
Beginning Wednesday at the Library of Congress, researchers and the public will have full access to Rosa Parks' archive of letters, writings, personal notes and photographs for the first time.
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Reluctant Islamic State Fighters Choose Between Death, Jail
While foreigners from across the world have joined the Islamic State militant group, some find day-to-day life in Iraq or Syria much more austere and violent than they had expected. …
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S&P Paying $1.38B to Settle Charges Over Crisis-Era Ratings
Standard & Poor's is paying about $1.38 billion to settle government allegations that it knowingly inflated its ratings of risky mortgage investments that helped trigger the financial crisis, the Justice …
