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Person of the Day
Brittany Dinkins
Everything has come together this year for University of Southern Mississippi senior guard Brittany Dinkins, who is having her best basketball season at USM in points, rebounds, assists and steals.
Earth Sets Hottest Year Record for Third-Straight Time
Earth sizzled to a third-straight record hot year in 2016, with scientists mostly blaming man-made global warming with help from a natural El Nino that's now gone.
Obama Defends Decision to Commute Chelsea Manning's Sentence
President Barack Obama firmly defended his decision to cut nearly three decades off convicted leaker Chelsea Manning's prison term Wednesday, arguing in his final White House news conference that the …
The Slate
There are just four teams left in the NFL Playoffs, and three of those teams feature quarterbacks who have won a Super Bowl. Only Matt Ryan for Atlanta doesn't have …
Civil Rights
Love & Revolution
For the Fongs, the last two weeks in December are about family, friends, fun, food and movies. Over that time, we saw "Loving," the story of Richard and Mildred Loving's …
Music
LPs and the People Who Press Them
Vinyl is back. At least, that's been the experience for Jackson singer-songwriter Jason Daniels, frontman of the Jason Daniels Band.
Editor's Note
We’ve Already Given Trump ‘A Chance’
This year, unlike any I remember, many of us—polls suggest it's a majority of Americans—will watch with a new level of trepidation. And we wonder, "What, exactly, should we give …
Crime
UPDATED: DA Smith Puts Ben Allen on Trial Jan. 30, DJP Suing 'Whistleblower' Claiming Forged Checks
The trial of Downtown Jackson Partners President Ben Allen, who faces 10 counts, including embezzling a 1989 Chevy truck and tens of thousands of dollars from the business improvement district, …
City & County
The District Attorney's Mistrial: What Just Happened? A Day-by-Day Primer
The Mississippi attorney general's prosecution of Hinds County District Attorney Robert Shuler Smith for conspiracy to hinder prosecution in order to aid or assist a defendant ended in a mistrial …
Jacksonian
Bilal Qizilbash
Two years ago, Bilal Qizilbash organized R U Hungry, a group that brings dinner to feed those in need at Smith Park every Friday with food from local restaurants such …
Obama Commutes Most of Chelsea Manning's Sentence
President Barack Obama commuted the prison sentence of Chelsea Manning on Tuesday, allowing the convicted Army leaker to go free nearly three decades early as part of a sweeping move …
City & County
WLEZ-FM Goes Silent, In 'Wait and See' Mode
Jacksonians trying to tune into local FM radio station WLEZ last week may have been surprised to hear silence instead of their favorite American standards and jazz tracks.
GOP Targets Landmark Endangered Species Act for Big Changes
In control of Congress and soon the White House, Republicans are readying plans to roll back the influence of the Endangered Species Act, one of the government's most powerful conservation …
Poll: Young Americans Fear They Will be Worse Off Post-Trump
As Donald Trump approaches his inauguration, young Americans have a deeply pessimistic view about his incoming administration, with young blacks, Latinos and Asian Americans particularly concerned about what's to come …
UK's May Signals Clean Break with EU: No Partial Membership
More than six months after Britain voted to leave the European Union, British Prime Minister Theresa May finally spelled out what it means: The U.K. will make a clean break …
Lawmakers Receive Consultants' School Funding Proposals
A consulting group is recommending that Mississippi adopt a new school funding formula and phase it in over five to eight years.
Trump, in Flap with Civil Rights Icon, Meets with MLK's Son
Days before taking office, President-elect Donald Trump attempted to navigate the fallout of his flap with a civil rights leader and colleague of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. while also …
Officials: FBI Arrests Widow of Orlando Nightclub Shooter
The wife of the Orlando nightclub shooter, who was extensively questioned by federal agents in the days after the massacre, has been arrested by the FBI on in connection with …
Politics
Analysis: Tax Cuts and Economy Weigh on Mississippi Revenues
As Gov. Phil Bryant cut state budgets by $51 million last week, he and Republican lawmakers went through the ritual obligations of sorrow and dismay.
China State Media Call Trump's Taiwan Strategy 'Despicable'
President-elect Donald Trump "speaks like a rookie," China's state-run media said Monday, describing his suggested use of America's position on Taiwan as a bargaining chip as "despicable."
