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Roberta Kaplan (right) and her wife, Rachel Lavine, married in Toronto in 2005. Photo courtesy …

• October 25, 2017

Gov. Phil Bryant Confirms Third Option for Jackson Public Schools

Gov. Phil Bryant confirmed this morning that he is working with several organizations as well as the Mississippi Department of Education to find a third option to revitalize the state's …

Gov. Phil Bryant told reporters at the annual Hobnob Mississippi event his morning that several …

• October 25, 2017

Popular Costumes

This year, Google News Lab created Freighgeist, which pulls the top 500 Halloween costume searches in the U.S. With location input, it even lets users search for the top costumes …

Nationally, Wonder Woman is one of the most popular Halloween costumes this year. Photo courtesy …

• October 25, 2017

Local popular Halloween costumes are characters from the children’s show “PAW Patrol” and witches, among …

• October 25, 2017

A Hub for Innovation

Chamber music, in the minds of many, belongs in a stuffy and insular world, where players just rehearse and rehash the same classical pieces within university recital halls. On Friday, …

(Left to right) Jesse Christeson, Michael Avitabile, David Dziardziel and Zenas Hsu perform as Hub …

• October 25, 2017

Bad Magic will perform at Spacecamp’s Astrophobia Halloween Extravaganza on Oct. 28. Jack Hammett/File Photo

• October 25, 2017

Good Shepherd Lutheran School will host Oktoberfest on Oct. 28. Photo courtesy Flickr/Ralpe

• October 25, 2017

This year, the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science is partnering with the Mississippi Children’s Museum …

• October 25, 2017

Spooky and Local

There's plenty of spooky Halloween events going on in the Jackson Metro this year. Here are just a few of them.

For great ideas for this Halloween, turn to local businesses and organizations. File Photo

• October 25, 2017

Special Assistant Attorney General Heather Wagner says most domestic violence offenses in the state fall …

• October 25, 2017

Saved for a Reason: The Fight to End Domestic Violence

The Mississippi Department of Health tracks interpersonal violence in the state, and in fiscal-year 2015, law-enforcement officers responded to 10,411 calls related to domestic violence, the annual report from the …

Cathy Green (left) was honored during Victims’ Rights Week in 2015 with the Image of …

• October 25, 2017

OPINION: The Work of Overcoming Abuse

"Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think …

"My life had shown me so much disappointment, but I was lifted from that attitude …

• October 25, 2017

EDITORIAL: State Lawmakers Must Support Abuse Victims

Domestic and interpersonal abuse, especially violence against women, are systemic and national in scope, but some clear policy and program solutions would make Mississippi safer and better for women.

Law enforcement officers in fiscal-year 2015 responded to more than 10,000calls related to domestic violence, …

• October 25, 2017