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10 Things to Know for Tuesday

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and stories that will be talked about today.

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20/20 Special on People of Privilege: Friday, November 3, 8 PM CT

From abcnews.com: A two-hour special on people of privilege: those who flash their money to gain entrance into college, and others who use their keen celebrity likeness to get red-carpet …

Jackblog

Nationwide Layoffs Announced Today at Gannett

An "undated memo" sent to publishers in the Gannett chain of daily newspapers confirmed something that was suggested two weeks ago when we learned that the Clarion-Ledger was laying off …

Person of the Day

Wendi Reed

Last season was historic for the Jackson State Lady Tigers softball team. Under first-year head coach Rick Fremin, the team won more than 20 games for the fourth time in …

Editorial

Feds Need to Get 'Er Done

The U.S. Constitution probably breathed a sigh of relief last week when the U.S. Department of Justice announced indictments of Mayor Frank Melton and his two bodyguards for the alleged …

State

Miss. State Rep. Jessica Upshaw Found Dead

State Rep. Jessica Upshaw, an attorney who had been a lawmaker since 2004, was found dead Sunday of an apparent suicide. She was 53.

Sports

The Slate

Danica Patrick will make more history this weekend, when she becomes the first woman to ever start from the pole position at the Super Bowl of NASCAR racing, the Dayton …

Economy

U.S. Stocks Keep Sliding on Weak Data, Fed Qualms

U.S. stocks continued a two-day slide Thursday on weak economic data and concern about the Federal Reserve's resolve to keep juicing the market.

Tease photo Person of the Day

JSU Indoor Track team

This past weekend at the 2013 SWAC indoor Track Championship in Birmingham, Ala., the Jackson State Tigers men's track team ended the meet in fourth place, but they managed to …

Hurricane

Isaac Clean-Up Begins on Miss. Gulf Coast

Life on the Mississippi Gulf Coast is slowly returning to normal as residents return home.

Tease photo Drink

Ale to the Chief: White House Releases Beer Recipe

The White House has made public the recipe for two homemade beers that have become an object of fascination for beer drinkers everywhere.

Drink

[Drink] ‘Tis The Season

The holidays are the season of martinis, when even feeble, febrile suburbanites accustomed to buttery chardonnays might indulge in a cosmopolitan. As we enter martini season, however, I feel obligated …

World

10 Things to Know for Wednesday

Power restored in India: Gore Vidal; Romney vs. Obama overseas compared

Tease photo Person of the Day

Jennifer Gillom

Born in Abbeville, Miss., in 1964, Jennifer Gillom first made a name for herself on the Lafayette High School basketball team.

Working Together: Jackson

On the night of June 14, hundreds of people flooded through the doors of New Horizon Church in south Jackson to collaborate on one of the biggest tasks the city …

Jacksonian

Mahmoud A. Manzoul

Mahmoud A. Manzoul always wanted to be a teacher. "When I came to the U.S., I went for my master's and Ph.D. so I could teach," he says.

Jacksonian

Officer Colendula Green

As I approach Smith Park, I spot a woman standing in a black long-sleeved JPD uniform, gun on belt, badge on shirt and dark shades over eyes.

Jacksonian

[Jacksonian] DJ Phingaprint

Timothy Washington's dreads are not a fashion statement, but a cultural and spiritual move the 25-year-old undertook eight years ago. "I always had a little Afro," he says, "but I …

Jacksonian

Tara Richardson

It may seem unlikely to see smiles on the faces of patients when walking into a doctor's, dentist's or therapist's exam room.

Jacksonian

Kirti Naran and Rina Patel

In a corner shop at the Bel Air Shopping Center, 1999 Highway 80 West, there's a quiet—yet totally unintended—sociological experiment underway, wrought at the skilled hands of Kirti Naran, 31 …