Jackson Free Press

One year to the date after Kingston Frazier, a 6-year-old kidnapped from Kroger and then …

• May 23, 2018

Mississippi: Up to 7,000 Bodies from Asylum May Be in Field

Researchers are planning to exhume as many as 7,000 bodies that were buried at Mississippi's former insane asylum, create a memorial and study them for insight on how the mentally …

As many as 7,000 bodies were buried at Mississippi's former insane asylum, a site that's …

• May 23, 2018

Are Teacher Walkouts Possible in Mississippi?

Teachers in Oklahoma, West Virginia, Arizona, Colorado, Kentucky and now North Carolina have made national headlines as they strike for better wages, policy matters and other various reasons.

Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation for Teachers (right), visited Davis Magnet Elementary …

• May 23, 2018

What Lumumba’s ‘A-Team’ Earns

As we get nearer to annual budget hearings in the City of Jackson, you can almost feel the tension mounting around money issues.

Examining the salaries of department heads in the City of Jackson under Mayor Chokwe A. …

• May 23, 2018

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• May 23, 2018

Congress Moves to Dismantle Key Post-Crisis Bank Rules

Congress moved Tuesday to dismantle a chunk of the rules framework for banks, installed to prevent a recurrence of the 2008 financial crisis that brought millions of lost jobs and …

Congress moved Tuesday to dismantle a chunk of the rules framework for banks, installed to …

• May 22, 2018

Lawyers Say JPD Officer May Have Killed Twice, Demands More Names

Attorneys for the family of Crystalline Barnes, killed by Jackson police on Jan. 27, 2018, is demanding to know the names of officers who shot Jacksonians in incidents over the …

Baltimore attorney Jason Downs filed a civil-action petition against the City of Jackson demanding release …

• May 22, 2018

Lumumba Cites 'Failures' That Led to Death of Frances Fortner

On behalf of the City of Jackson, Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba has accepted responsibility for not preventing the accident that killed Frances "Franny" Fortner.

Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba held a press conference on May 21, where he acknowledged the …

• May 22, 2018

Ira Murray

The United Way of the Capital Area Board of Trustees recently named Ira Murray as the organization's new president and chief executive officer.

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• May 22, 2018

Ripley's Believe It or Not! At Science Museum, CAPE Art Residencies and Families First Resource Center

The Mississippi Museum of Natural Science launched a new exhibit called "The Science of Ripley's Believe It or Not!" on Saturday, May 19.

The Mississippi Museum of Natural Science launched a new exhibit called "The Science of Ripley's …

• May 22, 2018

Mississippi Cuts Math Teacher Test Score, Citing Shortage

Mississippi is lowering the standardized test score that a student must achieve to become a middle school or high school math teacher, citing a teacher shortage.

The state Board of Education approved the change Thursday and it took effect immediately. The …

• May 22, 2018