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Art
Recycling in Style
The arts community around the Ross Barnett Reservoir has combined the task of repurposing trash with a love for fashion in the fourth annual Project Rezway, a fashion show featuring …
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Home Cookin’ Capsule
The Mississippi Braves close out a five-game homestand Thursday, April 23, and Friday, April 24, against Chattanooga. Games start at 7 p.m.
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The Pizza Shack
Welcome to the Pizza Shack, Jackson's only neighborhood pizza joint. Taste for yourself the pizza voted Best Pizza in Jackson in 2009-2011 in the Jackson Free Press Best of Jackson Awards! Locals, from doctors and nurses from Jackson's medical complex …
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Hinds Public Defenders: Judge Weill Setting a Bad Precedent in Barring Attorney
Assistant Hinds County Public Defender Alison Kelly says Judge Jeff Weill's charges are "extreme."
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Obama AG Nominee Loretta Lynch Heads for Vote After 5 Months
President Barack Obama's long-stalled nominee for attorney general, federal prosecutor Loretta Lynch, is on her way to a confirmation vote after senators extricated themselves Tuesday from a partisan dispute over …
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Art
Euphus Ruth
Photographer Euphus Ruth uses an early photographic process called collodion to produce art with a vintage aesthetic.
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Justice
State Fights Execution Drug Disclosure While Compensating Wrongfully Convicted
At the same time the State of Mississippi continues fighting the release of details about where it gets drugs used in executions, Mississippi taxpayers will have to compensate people wrongfully …
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Biz Roundup
New Pizza Joints for Jackson, Cold Drip Coffee and Jackson Zoo Endowment Fund
This year's Best of Jackson winner for Best Local Pizza and Best Hangover Food, The Pizza Shack, has seen one store close and a few more open over the past …
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Oklahoma Reserve Deputy Pleads Not Guilty in Fatal Shooting
A 73-year-old Oklahoma reserve deputy who fatally shot a suspect who was pinned down by officers on Tuesday pleaded not guilty to a second-degree manslaughter charge.
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UNHCR: Weekend Shipwreck Deadliest Ever in Mediterranean
The United Nations refugee agency said Tuesday that it believes more than 800 people drowned when a boat packed with migrants trying to reach Europe sank on Saturday, making it …
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Court Sentences Ousted Egypt President to 20 Years in Prison
An Egyptian criminal court on Tuesday sentenced ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi to 20 years in prison on charges linked to the killing of protesters in 2012, the first verdict …
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Lawyer: No Answer on Why Man Who Died in Custody was Stopped
The lawyer for the family of Freddie Gray, a black man who died of spinal injuries during an arrest in Baltimore, said he believes the police had no reason to …
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Suit Says Mississippi Lethal Injections are Unconstitutional
Two Mississippi prisoners condemned to death are challenging the legality of the state's lethal injection procedures.
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Politics
Conservative PAC Wants Term Limits
The United Conservatives Fund today said the group has filed documents with the secretary of state's office to start the process to limit how long some Mississippi officials can serve …
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Person of the Day
Dr. Mary Elizabeth Hawkins
Dr. Mary Elizabeth Hawkins, a co-founder of Woman's Hospital (now Merit Health Woman's Hospital), passed away on April 7, 2015, at her home in Flora.
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City & County
10 Local Stories of the Week
There's never a slow news week in Jackson, Miss., and last week was no exception. Here are the local stories JFP reporters brought you in case you missed them.
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Deadlines Set in Dispute Over School Funding Initiatives
Attorneys have until next week to submit arguments in a legal dispute about school funding initiatives on the November ballot. The Mississippi Supreme Court on Friday set an April 24 …
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Education
Uncertainty About 3rd Grade Gate Standards Frustrates School Officials
With testing for the so-called 3rd grade reading gate—which requires students to pass a literacy test before moving to the next grade—now under way around the state, some public school …
