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Bryan's Rant

Rookie Overboard

I have a couple of quick NFL thoughts as the season heads to the final three weeks.

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Rebel Land: A Racial History of Oxford and Ole Miss

“I saw years of work of digging out of this hole covered back up. I felt quite disgusted, and there are still some feelings there of discontent even today.”

National

Gunman Opens Fire at Oregon Mall; Gunman, 2 Dead

A suburban Portland mall remains closed Wednesday a day after a gunman wearing camouflage and a mask opened fire on shoppers, killing two people and wounding a third, before killing …

State

Six Inmates Released by Mistake from Hinds Co. Jail

A manhunt is underway for three of six inmates released by mistake from the Hinds County Detention Center last week.

Business

Unions Flip to Support Kemper in Exchange for Jobs

Mississippi Power Co.'s contractors have agreed to hire about 1,000 labor union members to build its Kemper County power plant, and a group of unions says it now supports the …

NFL

NFL Vacates Saints Players' Suspensions in 'BountyGate'

Former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue overturned the suspensions of four current and former New Orleans Saints players in the league's bounty investigation of the club.

State

Hinds Co. Considers Purchasing New Voting Machines

Hinds County is poised to purchase an all-new electronic voting system that some supervisors say will be more efficient and less costly to maintain than the decade-old, touch-screen system now …

Crime

Disparity in Sex Crimes' Sentences Seen

When attorney Rod Ray was defending a client accused of sexual battery, he gave an impassioned speech to members of the jury, asking them to take the facts of the …

Economy

Higher Rates or Fewer Tax Breaks, What's Worse?

In the fiscal cliff wars, a pivotal battle is raging between Democrats demanding to raise revenue by boosting tax rates on the nation's highest earners and Republicans insisting on eliminating …

National

$2 Billion Price Tag for Presidential Election

The 2012 presidential election broke the $2 billion milestone in its final weeks, becoming the most expensive in American political history, according to final federal finance reports released Thursday. The …

Education

Miss. Gov. Tells Teens to Avoid Early Parenthood

To fight Mississippi's highest-in-the-nation teen birth rate, is it best to give young people detailed information about contraception or to just tell them to abstain from sex before marriage?

National

With Pot Legal in Washington State, The Work On Regulation Begins... If the Feds Wll Let It

People openly lit joints under the Space Needle and on Seattle's sidewalks — then blew the smoke at TV news cameras. To those looking to "get baked," the city's police …

Music

Dave Brubeck, Legend Who Helped Define Jazz, Dies

You don't have to be a jazz aficionado to recognize "Take Five," the smoky instrumental by the Dave Brubeck Quartet that instantly evokes swinging bachelor pads, hi-fi systems and cool …

National

New Judge Assigned to Case Against BP Supervisors

A new judge was assigned Wednesday to the case against two BP supervisors charged in the deaths of 11 workers aboard the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in 2010, after the …

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Gift of Music

The Christmas holiday season is yet upon us. Some of you look forward to this time of year, while others dread it like the plague. Before things get too crazy …

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Hinds Jail Could be Privatized

The beleaguered Hinds County Detention Center at Raymond could come under new management—a private corrections firm.

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Schoolhouse to the Statehouse

On Tuesday, Jan. 15, youth from all over Mississippi will come to Jackson to talk to state legislators.

Business

Citigroup to Cut More Than 11,000 Jobs

Most of them, about 6,200, will come from Citi's consumer banking unit.

National

Miss. Emergency Head: Streamline Disaster Recovery

The federal government should trim overlapping layers of bureaucracy to help speed recovery from large-scale disasters, the director of the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency told a congressional panel Tuesday in …