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UPDATED: Mayoral Campaign Reports Raise Questions

Mississippi's Sunshine Law is designed to shed light on campaign finance, but Jacksonians have found themselves in the dark when it comes to the majority of candidates seeking to become …

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The Pix, Help for Soldiers, Medicaid, Exports and Manufacturing Summit

David Pharr, a Jackson attorney, is one of the first tenants of the former Pix/Capri theater at 3023 N. State St.

Rachel Cowan

JSU's 7th annual Fit Fest Week starts Monday, March 25, and runs through Saturday, March 30.

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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 …

Severe Weather, Large Hail Pound Parts of Miss.

Seventeen counties are reporting damage the severe storm that produced large hail in the Jackson, Miss., metropolitan area and high winds to areas of north Mississippi.

North Dakota Looks at More Abortion Restrictions

North Dakota lawmakers who approved what would be some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the U.S. are now considering outlawing all abortions.

Remade Mideast Poses New Perils for Obama on Trip

On his second trip to the Middle East as U.S. commander in chief, President Barack Obama this week will confront a political and strategic landscape nearly unrecognizable from the one …

AP: Costs of U.S. Wars Linger for Over 100 Years

If history is any judge, the U.S. government will be paying for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars for the next century as service members and their families grapple with the …

Pope Francis Urges Protection of Nature, Weak

Pope Francis urged princes, presidents, sheiks and thousands of ordinary people gathered for his installation Mass on Tuesday to protect the environment, the weakest and the poorest, mapping out a …

Cyprus Seeks to Alleviate Pain from Deposit Raid

Cypriot government officials sought Tuesday to alleviate the pain on small savers from a plan to raid bank deposits that has caused outrage in the country and sent jitters through …

Congress Works on Budget for 2013 and Future

Congress is finally cleaning up its unfinished budget business for the 2013 budget year.

Police Say Fla. College Student Plotted Attack

A college student with two guns, hundreds of rounds of ammunition and a backpack filled with explosives pulled a dorm fire alarm Monday in what may have been an attempt …

Mayor Harvey Johnson Jr. Telephone Town Hall Tonight

Hinds Faces Jail Repairs Catch-22

Hinds County still doesn't have the money it needs to fix a housing unit at the Raymond Detention Center damaged during an inmate uprising last summer.

Osteopathic Physicians: An Answer To Rural Health Care Needs?

With a tradition more than 100 years old, osteopathic physicians are hardly the new doctors in town.

Kathleen See

Saturday, March 23, the Mississippi Children's Museum is hosting "Question It? Discover It!" a monthly program sponsored by Children's Healthcare of Mississippi, which is part of the University of Mississippi …

Community Events and Public Meetings

The Sweet Potato Queens headline the series of Zippity Doo Dah events March 21-23 that include a parade March 23 at 7 p.m.

Analysis: Not Every Bill is a Headline Grabber

The first two bills that Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant signed during the 2013 legislative session dealt with money.

Olen Burrage, Suspect in 1964 Klan Slayings, Dies

Olen Burrage, who was acquitted in the case of three civil rights workers killed by Ku Klux Klansmen in Mississippi in the 1960s, has died. He was 82.