Jackson Free Press

One Day is All I Ask

I am not particularly fond of Mother's Day. For the first few years of adulthood, I had high expectations for holidays; I was often disappointed. Because of my disappointment, I …

Jackson Cop Involved in 3 Shootings; Teen Shot 2 Times in Back, Family Says

Officer Anthony Veasey was involved in three separate shootings in Jackson in 14 months since November 2017, including an exchange of gunfire that hit an 18-year-old two times in the …

ChickBall Performer: The Red Hot Tamales

They're red, they're hot, and we've got 'em for one night only. The Red Hot Tamales play old-time, traditional mountain ballads and folk tunes stirred and wrapped up into a …

Corky Appeals Suspension

Chicago Cubs cheater Sammy Sosa was suspended for eight games Friday for using a corked bat in a game on Tuesday. Sosa appealed, so he will be able to play …

New Mississippi Trade Mart Opens on State Fairgrounds

State officials on Thursday opened the new Mississippi Trade Mart that's attached to the coliseum on the state fairgrounds in Jackson.

Another Group of Bulldog Basketball Heroes

The Mississippi State basketball team is in the headlines as the Bulldogs play in the NCAA tournament. On March 24, Mississippi Public Broadcasting will air "One Night in March," a …

[New Releases] Bright Eyes "Noise Floor"

Bright Eyes "Noise Floor"

Conor Oberst and company are back with a quintessential collection of singles, unreleased tracks, one-offs and covers, recorded from 1998 in Conor's basement four-tracks to laptop projects in 2005. You'll …

Favre Wants To Hold Packers Hostage

This just in: Burned-out superstar QB Brett Favre tells ESPN he is leaning toward retiring. He would like to wait until the Green Bay Packers start training camp to make …

Rev. Otis Moss III

Rev. Otis Moss III, senior pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ of Chicago, visits Tougaloo College to speak to teenage girls this week.

Obama Pushes Stimulus Transparency

In signing the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act today, President Barack Obama has embarked on what could be the defining action of his young presidency.

MBN Seeing Spike in Meth Labs

Drug dealers and producers are getting smarter, says the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics. The agency is seeing a rise lately in methamphetamine labs and in the numbers of cocaine investigations, …

Connie McCaa

Dr. Connie McCaa has set her professional bar high. This week she was again ranked by Best Doctors, an international, independent medical resource, as one of the leading doctors in …

Calvin Bogan

Calvin Bogan, 19, is taking his passion for music to Boston this summer. "One thing I love about music," he says, "is that music touches people in different ways."

Stressed Soldiers: The Numbers

Approximately one in six soldiers returning from the war in Iraq shows signs of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or other emotional disorders, according to a study published July 1, 2004, …

Boys and Girls Club to Close Again?

Boys & Girls Club of Central Mississippi President and CEO Billy Redd said his organization is planning to close three area facilities for the second time in two years because …

July 4th Products

I updated one of my Web sites by adding additional products choices. Come take a look, and I hope you like what you see!

A Salty Solution

If you grew up feasting on a dry, chewy, tasteless bird every year, here's the good news: Turkey meat can be juicy and even flavorful, thanks in part to a …

Notes of Love

This winter, one of the greatest known love stories will captivate its audience when soprano Kathleen Van De Graaff and bass-baritone Peter Van De Graaff, perform in "The Life and …

A New Development

Youth Media Project

Water is one of the basic essentials of life. Use it wisely...because we never truly can appreciate it's full value until we have to suffer without it.

Families United Supporting Troops at Oxford Debate

The Pontotoc Progress is reporting (in a whole bunch of one-sentence paragraphs):