Jackson Free Press

Hunter McEachern

Fans may not remember Belhaven University quarterback Hunter McEachern's performance against East Texas Baptist University forever, but it was a great effort in a losing cause. McEachern did his best …

Photo Bobby Brummel/Belhaven Athletics

• September 29, 2017

Education Agency Denies Auditor's Claim of Breaking Bid Laws

Mississippi's state auditor says he continues investigating contracts by the state Department of Education.

Auditor Stacey Pickering on Thursday released reports on consulting contracts, as well as afterschool grant …

• September 28, 2017

Job in Jeopardy, HHS Chief Tom Price Promises to Repay Charter Costs

Fighting to keep his job, health secretary Tom Price said Thursday he'd write a personal check to reimburse taxpayers for the cost of his travel on charter flights taken on …

Fighting to keep his job, health secretary Tom Price said Thursday he'd write a personal …

• September 28, 2017

Trump: NFL Owners Fear Players as League Stresses Injustice

The NFL says the message players and teams are trying to express is being lost in a political firestorm.

More than 200 players either knelt or used other means as expressions of unity last …

• September 28, 2017

This is a partial rendering of The Precinct Fondren development at North State Street and …

• September 28, 2017

Fondren Residents Demand Rejection of Patio Variance for Precinct Lofts

A group of Fondren residents walked out of the downtown Hood Building relieved on Wednesday after the City of Jackson planning board rejected a request for a "front yard" variance …

Michael Paduda III, a Jackson developer and investor, requested a variance to build a patio …

• September 28, 2017

Civil Rights Photographer Doris Derby Unveils Work at JSU Tonight

Doris Derby, a civil-rights veteran who worked in Jackson in the 1960s, walked into a basement room of the not-yet-opened Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and saw her black and yellow …

Civil rights activist and professor Doris Derby, who was active in coordinating work co-operatives in …

• September 28, 2017

A Musical and a Mattress

The Center Players Community Theatre's will be putting a modern twist to a Hans Christian Andersen classic in the opening play for its 17th season, "Once Upon a Mattress."

Daniel McDade (Wizard), Mandy Hackman (Princess Winnifred) and Mona Reddy (Lady Mabelle) Photo courtesy Center …

• September 28, 2017

Beth Poff

Beth Poff may be the executive director at the Jackson Zoo, but she says that she is a zookeeper at heart.

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• September 28, 2017

Murder Case Raises Question: Do LGBT Hate Crime Laws Work?

Each year, for the past three years, LGBT advocacy groups have tallied the killings of more than 20 transgender people in the U.S. Yet state or federal hate crime laws …

A Mississippi man, Joshua Vallum, received a 49-year prison sentence in the 2015 killing of …

• September 28, 2017