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The Best In Sports In 7 Days
NFL football, Tennessee at Pittsburgh (7:30 p.m., Ch. 3): The Titans try to spoil the Steelers' Super Bowl celebration in the league's season opener. Junior college football, East Central at …
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The Best In Sports In The Next 7 Days
Pro basketball, Los Angeles Lakers at Boston in NBA Finals (8 p.m., Ch. 16): If the Celtics don't take care of business Tuesday, this game will decide who rules the …
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Crime
'My Baby is Dead,' Mom Says in Call for End to Violence
A Mississippi woman says local officials need to take immediate steps end senseless violence like the drive-by shooting that killed her 6-year-old son while he was playing with friends at …
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City & County
Schools, Libraries Close As Mayor Declares Weather Emergency
In the midst of severe weather threatening Mississippi and the larger South, Jackson Mayor Chokwe A. Lumumba issued a proclamation of a local weather emergency this morning closing vulnerable locations …
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Politics
Mississippi Gov Says He's 'Married' to Income Tax Phaseout
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves insisted Thursday that legislators pass a bill to phase out the state income tax, but other Republicans who lead the House and Senate remained far apart …
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Education
JSU Commencement Speakers, National Academy of Inventors Chapter and Marc E. Bassy at MSU
Jackson State University recently announced that Thasunda Brown Duckett and Homer Wilkes will hold presentations during the university's 2022 commencement exercises.
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Millsaps Group Helping Boost Businesses
Millsaps College has formed ELSEWorks, a group of students and faculty that engages the area's business and community leaders to promote growth and opportunity.
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Question o' the Week: What was the most important lesson you learned as a teenager?
What was the most important lesson you learned as a teenager?
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Lumumba's Donors
When it finally arrived a week after state law said it was due, Chokwe Lumumba's campaign-finance form revealed that he raised a fraction--20 percent--of the amount first-place finisher Jonathan Lee …
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Court Won't Get Involved in Miss. Redistricting
The U.S. Supreme Court won't order new legislative elections in Mississippi, despite a lawsuit that said current lawmakers were chosen in outdated districts that diluted black voting strength.
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Judge Denies Death Row Inmate Manning New Trial
A judge has denied death row inmate Willie Jerome Manning's request for a new trial in the 1993 slayings of a 90-year-old woman and her 60-year-old daughter in Starkville.
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Ex-DEA Heads: Feds should Nullify State Pot Laws
Government needs to act now or it might lose the chance to nullify Colorado and Washington's laws legalizing recreational marijuana use.
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GOP Seeks to Smooth Roughest Cuts, Avert Shutdown
Republicans controlling the House are moving to take the roughest edges off across-the-board spending cuts that are just starting to take effect.
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Whistle-Blowers Allege Wrongdoing at VA Center
Employees at a Veterans Administration hospital in Mississippi have reported a range of "serious wrongdoing," including improperly sterilized instruments and missed diagnoses of fatal illnesses, an independent federal investigative agency …
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Experts: Chances of Recovering Boston Art Good
Now that authorities believe they know who stole $500 million worth of art from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in the largest art heist in U.S. history, what are the …
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Music
Weeknight Warriors
The immediacy of music is one of the things that I find captivating about living in a city instead of the countryside or, say, a deserted island where the closest …
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Person of the Day
Mississippians in the Madness
The madness of March begins today with the open round of the NCAA Tournament set to start shortly before noon.
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Karaoke Wishes, Contract Dreams
Ever dreamed of getting up to sing the karaoke track you're known for—"‘I Will Survive' as performed by Gloria Gaynor," perhaps—and in the audience sat a record producer looking for …
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Sports
Battle to be the Best Conference
Maybe it is the college football playoff starting in 2014, or maybe it is because the Southeastern Conference raided the Big-12 to add Missouri and Texas A&M. Whatever the reason, …
