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Joe Troupe

Joseph Randall Troupe, better known as Joe, was a veteran, a skilled carpenter and a powerful motivator. Troupe died Friday after battling lymphoma. He was 67. Troupe's wife, Mary Troupe, …

Marilyn Blackledge

Mississippi Food Network's Director of Development Marilyn Blackledge has had to work hard to raise additional funds this year after the organization's member agencies reported a 30 percent increase in …

Jerel Levanway

For the past couple days, Jerel Levanway has been sharing his hometown with Hollywood. As assistant location manager for "The Help" in Jackson, Levanway has coordinated filming locations for the …

Mississippi Attorney Files BP Racketeering Suit

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John Read

As the publisher and editor of Stay Tooned!, a magazine for cartoonists, John Read has turned his passion for cartoon art into a career.

Barbour Frequently Out of State

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour was out of state all or part of 48 days in July, August and September, The Associated Press reported Saturday.

Mayor Proclaims Homeless Persons' Memorial Day

[verbatim] Jackson Mayor Harvey Johnson, Jr., will proclaim Friday, Dec. 18, as James Ivory Homeless Persons' Memorial Day at an observance scheduled for 9:30 a.m. that day at the Stewpot …

Weekend Events

Start the weekend off by heading to the Jackson Community Design Center at 5:30 p.m. for "Cross-Pollinate: A Speaker Series." Shahid Buttar, of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee in …

Bizz News: Grants, Collaboration, New Salon

Mississippi has received almost $5 million for assessing broadband coverage and planning to increase high-speed Internet access across the state. The grant, from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, part …

Jackson Pushes Brownfield Grants

The city of Jackson has two months to spend the remainder of a federal grant aimed at spurring the redevelopment of underused industrial or commercial sites. At a meeting this …

Feds: Mete Out Equal Justice

As the dust from a very ugly election settles, one thing is clear: There is a new, disturbing kind of well-funded machine politics that has rolled through the state in …

Stop the City Council Game-Playing

Here we go again. When the Jackson Free Press started 10 years ago, the City Council members from Ward 1 (Ben Allen) and Ward 3 (Kenneth Stokes) were constantly at …

Capital Sports

The Jackson sports landscape in the capital city and surrounding areas has changed a lot since the JFP was born 10 years ago.

Group of the Day: Millsaps Feminists

Although still a relatively new group on campus, the Millsaps Feminists are making waves and sparking conversation.

First Black Judge Sworn In Under Barbour

The state of Mississippi swore in its first African American judge under Republican Gov. Haley Barbour this morning.

Cajun Country

Here's your plan for today: Grab the intriguingly thick paperback book "Louisiana Rambles: Exploring America's Cajun and Creole Heartland" by Ian McNulty.

Carol Clark Hammond

Michelangelo once said, "He who does not master the nude cannot understand the principles of architecture." It's just one of many quotes by which Carol Clark Hammond lives. As a …

County Won't Cut Sheriff's Budget

The Hinds County Sheriff's Department won't get a budget cut after all.

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10 Things to Know for Friday

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and stories that will be talked about today.

Problems Persist in First Half of Election Day

Dozens of gold-shirted volunteers at the NAACP's Protect the Vote headquarters are busily fielding a steady stream of calls from across the state to the organization's voter helpline.