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Politics
GOP-Majority Panel to Hear Challenge Over Mississippi House Seat
A Mississippi House committee met today to start discussing a contested race that went to a drawing of straws for a tiebreaker.
Mississippi Attorney General Seeks More Wiretap Authority
Fourth-term Attorney General Jim Hood says he's asking Mississippi lawmakers to give his office the power to do wiretaps to investigate human trafficking and white-collar crime.
Mississippi Insurance Chief Seeks Tighter Regs of Bail Bonds
Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney said Wednesday that he wants tighter state regulations for bail bond businesses and agents.
DC-Area Mayor Faces Drug Charges After Meth-for-Sex Sting
A northern Virginia mayor was facing drug charges Friday after his arrest in a meth-for-sex sting, police said.
LGBT
Supreme Court Takes on New Clash of Gay Rights, Religion
The Supreme Court is taking on a new clash between gay rights and religion in a case about a wedding cake for a same-sex couple in Colorado.
National
Hobby Lobby Fined $3 Million Over Smuggled Iraqi Artifacts
Hobby Lobby Stores has agreed to pay a $3 million federal fine and forfeit thousands of ancient Iraqi artifacts smuggled from the Middle East that the government alleges were intentionally …
Crime
Jordan Presses New Appeal of 1976 Death Sentence
A Mississippi death row inmate is asking the full 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to hear an appeal.
U.S. Recognizes Michigan Same-Sex Couple Marriages
Attorney General Eric Holder on Friday extended federal recognition to the marriages of about 300 same-sex couples that took place in Michigan before a federal appeals court put those unions …
Miss. Lawmakers Face Saturday Budget Deadline
State negotiators face a Saturday night deadline to agree on details of a roughly $6 billion budget for fiscal 2015.
Feds: Group Made $30M with Hacked Press Release Information
A group of Ukrainian hackers worked with securities traders in the U.S. to make $30 million by breaking into the computer systems of companies that publish news releases about publicly …
Prosecution Says it Will Appeal Pistorius Verdict
South African prosecutors will appeal the verdict and sentencing of Oscar Pistorius, who was handed a 5-year prison term after being convicted of culpable homicide, the country's National Prosecuting Authority …
Person of the Day
Rep. Bennie Thompson
Three heroes of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi will posthumously receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom thanks to Democratic U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson of Mississippi.
One Destination, Two Routes
Former Gov. Ronnie Musgrove, who co-authored MAEP, and public-education advocates at Better Schools Better Jobs want the same thing: for the state to recognize its duty to fully fund education …
Dolezal Steps Down as NAACP Spokane President
The president of the NAACP's Spokane, Washington, chapter resigned as furor mounted over her racial identity that emerged after her parents said she falsely portrayed herself as black for years …
Judge: Try Marathon Suspect's 3 Friends Separately
Three college friends of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect will be tried separately, but those trials do not need to be moved out of Massachusetts, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
Politics
Mississippi Leaders Set Initial Outline for State Budget
Top Mississippi lawmakers are setting an early and slightly diminished version of state budget recommendations for the coming year.
City & County
Verbatim Release: Pearl River Cresting
Due to an increase of water released from the Barnett Reservoir on Friday caused by local rains over the last 24 hours, the City of Jackson expects the Pearl River …
Hinds County Gets New District Plan
Hinds County Board of Supervisors picked a new county redistricting plan Monday night, even as critics complained that the board did not make all of the maps under consideration available …
[Atkins] Modern-Day Servitude
I was a lowly intern at a major newspaper up north, sitting at my desk in a corner plotting my day when a small, elderly, bespectacled man walked past me …
‘Ain't Got Justice, Yet'
It was tragic when a man raped and killed Eva Gail Patterson in 1979 in Forrest County, says Emily Maw. It was horrific, Maw says, that the real perpetrator let …
