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Biz Roundup
Area Restaurants Win Awards, Open, Close, Renovate
Ciara Brown calls her restaurant, Ciara's Bakery and Cafe, "a one-stop shop where you can taste the difference."
Person of the Day
Tadaharu Yamamoto
Tadaharu Yamamoto, president of Yokohama Rubber Co.'s Mississippi branch, says it will take up to two years to reach yearly capacity of 1 million truck and bus tires.
Health Care
How Some Alabama Hospitals Quietly Drug Test New Mothers—Without Their Consent
In Alabama, a positive drug test can have dire repercussions for pregnant women and new mothers.
House to Vote on Defense Bill that Obama Threatens to Veto
The defense policy bill is one of the few bipartisan measures in Congress that has readily become law for more than a half-century. Not so fast this year, as President …
Health Care
Stemming the Cycle of Toxic Stress—For the Kids’ Sake
A growing body of research shows that children who experience abuse, neglect or other "toxic stress" have a greater likelihood of developing chronic diseases when they get older.
Embrace Immigrants, Pope Francis Urges Congress
Standing before a rapt Congress, Pope Francis issued a ringing call to action on behalf of immigrants Thursday, urging lawmakers to embrace "the stranger in our midst" as he became …
Style
Physical Art Making Taboo History
While Taboo Dance & Fitness is normally used for fitness classes, on Saturday, June 27, it made history as the home of Mississippi's first pole-fitness competition, Miss Taboo.
Military Hearing on Bergdahl Desertion Charges Begins
A hearing to decide if Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl should face a military trial for leaving his post in Afghanistan began Thursday—proceedings that his lead lawyer said would reveal details of …
City & County
Veterans Fight Homelessness
Soldier On is a program to help veterans re-establish their lives through housing and other services.
NKorea Warns It Has Restarted All Nuclear Bomb Fuel Plants
With a big anniversary drawing near, North Korea declared Tuesday it has upgraded and restarted all of its atomic fuel plants — meaning it could possibly make more, and more …
Former B.B. King Aide Accuses 3 Daughters of Defamation
A former personal aide to B.B. King is suing three of the late blues legend's daughters in Las Vegas over allegations that King was poisoned before he died in May.
Immigration
The High Cost of Cheap Immigrant Labor
Attorneys want to use RICO to prosecute a pair of Mississippi companies they say defrauded workers from Mexico.
Pope Speeds Up, Simplifies Process for Marriage Annulments
Pope Francis radically reformed the Catholic Church's process for annulling marriages Tuesday, allowing for fast-track decisions and removing automatic appeals in a bid to speed up and simplify the procedure.
Black Lives Matter Movement Experiencing Growing Pains
Hundreds of Black Lives Matter activists, black and white, marched outside the Minnesota State Fair this weekend, hoping to bring attention to the deaths of African-Americans at the hands of …
National
Activists Pursue Private Abortion Details Using Public Records Laws
Increasingly, abortion opponents are pursuing personal and medical information on women undergoing abortions and the doctors who perform them.
Booty MacDrawers, Crime Investigator
"Watch Booty MacDrawers and Christie 'Love' McBride bring justice into your home and to the people on the new Ghetto Science Team for Truth and Justice Television Network."
State
Finding Homes for People With HIV/AIDS
Housing Opportunities for People with AIDS/HIV serves individuals, families and couples (in domestic partnerships) if one member has AIDS.
UN: Some Sexual Abuse Charges Against Peacekeepers Ignored
A new push against what the U.N. secretary-general calls the "cancer" of peacekeeper sexual misconduct, after the issue flared again last week, has a troubling weakness: Countries' lack of interest …
Indonesia Nabs Ship Believed to Carry Slave-Caught Fish
A massive refrigerated cargo ship believed to be loaded with slave-caught fish was seized by Indonesia's navy and brought to shore Thursday, after The Associated Press informed authorities it had …
An Open Letter to My Daughter
Discriminatory practices are and must continue to be challenged in the legal, policy, judiciary, corporate and executive arenas. Victory in such arenas must be achieved through political participation, litigation and …
