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Yarber, Powell Face Water Billing Questions

After more careful review, city officials say that potential causes of exorbitant water bills go deeper and are more complicated than previously thought.

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World Series: Weather Update

There's bad news and bad weather in St. Louis.

Questions of Faith

Blog about ‘State of the State' on StateDesk

Crisler Would Expand Highway 61

Former Jackson City Councilman Marshand Crisler thinks he will have an advantage as a Mississippi Department of Transportation Commissioner for the Central District. Crisler, who is a district director for …

Cruel & Unusual? The Death Penalty’s Trials in Mississippi

The State of Mississippi is litigating legal challenges to the state's lethal-injection law directly. Mississippi last executed a prisoner in June 2012, Mississippi Department of Corrections records posted online show.

We Are Family: A Klan Child Fans A Different Flame

Photos by Kate Medley

Little Shirley Seale was in her room at the back of her wood frame house when she saw flames through her window. The Natchez girl, who was 5 in 1968, …

Haley Barbour's 2008 Inaugural Address

Read the verbatim full text of the governor's prepared remarks over on StateDesk.

Study: Race Disparity During Traffic Stops

The Bureau of Justice Statistics did not want this study published.

Hornets Cut Johnson

The New Orlean Hornets waive former Jackson State basketball star Trey Johnson.

Mo Goes To Cleveland

Former Murrah star Mo Williams has been traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers.

McNair Locked Out

The Steve McNair era with the Tennessee Titans appears to have come to a sad and goofy end.

12/13 Dow Recovers Nearly Five Percent

Thursday trading saw the Dow careen back up at the close, presumably on bargain hunting and the sense that a Dow of 8,000 (which it reached briefly) is a floor …

Americans, Wall Street Shrug Off Mad Cow

Reuters reports:: Investor concerns that consumers would shun beef after last month's discovery of the first U.S. case of mad cow disease appear to have evaporated as shares of steakhouses …

JFP Wins Multiple Awards for 2011 Work

The Jackson Free Press got amazing news from Detroit Friday afternoon when we learned the Association of Alternative Newsmedia was presenting us a coveted first-place public-service award for our team …

10 Things: Purpertrator

A lot of things can be said about Purpertrator. Because there are so many, we've managed to narrow them down to ten, just to give you a taste on how …

Come On, Get Happy

New Orleans-based The Happy Talk Band sings about all sorts of things, but mostly they sing happy love songs.

‘Day Off' in the Art Garden

Are you looking for a good laugh? Do you want to watch a feel-good film with a light-hearted look at the proverbial coming of age? Has it been 30 years …

Be Our Guest

One of the most famous love stories ever told comes to Jackson in October: Disney's "Beauty and the Beast." W. Kessler Ltd. brings the musical, based on a French fairy …