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US Adds 88K Jobs, Unemployment Rate at 7.6 pct.

March's job gains were less than half the average of the previous six months.

Official: Obama Proposes Cuts to Social Security

President Barack Obama's proposed budget will call for reductions in the growth of Social Security and other benefit programs while still insisting on more taxes from the wealthy in a …

FAA Funded Airport Towers Using 30-Year-Old Data

The government has been using 30-year-old data on aircraft collisions to justify the cost of operating control towers at small airports even though accident rates have improved significantly over that …

Iran Nuke Talks Open, EU Asks Tehran to Compromise

Talks seeking to find common ground between Iran and a group of six nations over concerns that Tehran might misuse its nuclear program to make weapons appeared to run into …

House Group Finalizing Immigration Bill

A group of Republicans and Democrats in the House is finalizing a sweeping immigration bill that offers work permits and the eventual prospect of citizenship to millions of people living …

Laws, Rumors Have Ammo Flying Off Store Shelves

Gun enthusiasts fearful of new weapon controls and alarmed by rumors of government hoarding are buying bullets practically by the bushel, making it hard for stores nationwide to keep shelves …

Ala. Legislature Votes to Pardon Scottsboro Boys

Opening a final chapter to one of the most important civil rights episodes in American history, Alabama lawmakers voted Thursday to allow posthumous pardons for the "Scottsboro Boys": nine black …

Judge to Hear BP's Bid to Block Settlement Payouts

A federal judge is set to hear arguments on BP's request for an order blocking what could be billions of dollars in settlement payouts to businesses who claim the company's …

Mississippi Lawmakers Finish Their 2013 Session

Mississippi lawmakers ended their three-month session Thursday, but they'll return to the Capitol in the next several weeks to handle a big piece of unfinished business: Keeping the Medicaid program …

Suspect Jeremy Powell Committed Suicide After Shooting Officer

The second deceased individual identified as Jeremy Powell.

Mayor Calls for Moment of Silence

Jackson Mayor Harvey Johnson Jr. is asking Jacksonians to remember Det. Eric Smith at noon today.

MBI: Suspect Shot Officer, Then Himself

Jeremy Powell shot Detective Eric Smith before killing himself.

It's the Weekend!

On Saturday, NatureFEST is at 10 a.m. at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science.

James Meredith

Harvard University's Graduate School of Education is awarding James Meredith its Medal for Education Impact, the highest honor the school awards.

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Who Polices Prosecutors Who Abuse Their Authority? Usually Nobody

After serving 13 years in prison for murder, Tony Bennett was released when a state appeals court found that the prosecutor who had handled his case had violated a basic …

Det. Eric Smith Remembered

Eric T. Smith was a husband, a father and a man who cared about his neighbors. Like many Mississippians, he was an avid New Orleans Saints fan as evidenced by …

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10 Local Stories of the Week

There's never a slow news week in Jackson, Miss., and last week was no exception. Here are the local stories JFP reporters brought you in case you missed them.

Judge Refuses to Block BP Settlement Payouts

A federal judge on Friday rejected BP's request to block what could be billions of dollars in settlement payouts to businesses that claim the company's 2010 oil spill in the …

Margaret Thatcher, Iron Lady, Dead at 87

Love her or loathe her, one thing's beyond dispute: Margaret Thatcher transformed Britain.

Cold Case Arrest Prompts Cross-Country Probe

When Los Angeles cold case detectives caught up with Samuel Little this past fall, he was living in a Christian shelter in Kentucky, his latest arrest a few months earlier …