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Nearing 90 years of life, she sat on the edge of her chair staring into my daughter's eyes as if there was some clue as to who she was.

Stinker Quote of the Week: 'Killing'

Same old, same old conservative response—reduce the size of government regardless of what the issue is.

Jones: Looking for Bargains

Leon Jones, a 48-year-old former Jackson police officer and day-care center owner, knows the importance of having an advocate on the Hinds County Board of Supervisors.

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What $6.5 Million Will Buy

Budget talks heated Sept. 5 as Mayor Chokwe Lumumba began distributing some of the funds from his $503 million budget, starting with re-allocating $6.5 million from the public schools. The …

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Question o' the Week: Fill in this phrase: 'Art is ______'

Fill in this phrase: 'Art is ______'

Enforcing Truancy Laws

Jackson Councilman Tony Yarber, Ward 6, doesn't split hairs on state truancy laws at Jackson Public Schools: He doesn't believe they are being enforced.

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Gators: A Conservation Love Story

By now, the stories of Mississippi's three record-breaking alligators have traveled around the world.

Christy Henderson

As the founder and executive director of the Mississippi Ridability Therapeutic Riding Center, Christy Henderson lives to enrich the lives of special-needs individuals through horseback riding.

Finding Sheroes

Think about the women you see in films and TV shows, on magazine covers and runways. They are pornified, photoshopped, plastic.

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Blender IV: Hip-Hop Gives Back

Throughout last year, Jackson hip-hop artist James Crow, or Herbert Brown as his friends know him, struggled through an incredible hardship—one that no amount of talent, dedication or hard work …

Obama Conditionally Backs Offer on Syria

President Barack Obama conditionally endorsed a Russian offer for international inspectors to seize and destroy deadly chemical weapons in Syria as efforts to avert retaliatory U.S. missile strikes shift from …

9/11 Anniversary to Be Marked With Tributes

Sept. 11 victims' loved ones will gather at ground zero to commemorate the attacks' anniversary with the reading of names, moments of silence and serene music that have become tradition.

The NSA machine: Too Big for Anyone to Understand

The National Security Agency set it in motion in 2006 and the vast network of supercomputers, switches and wiretaps began gathering Americans' phone and Internet records by the millions, looking …

AP Interview: Syria Renouncing Arms Shows Strength

Syria's acceptance of a proposal to relinquish its chemical weapons stockpile should not be interpreted as a concession or sign of weakness, a senior government official said Wednesday. Damascus' agreement, …

Top 1 Percent in U.S. Took Biggest Share Since 1928

The income gap between the richest 1 percent and the rest of America last year reached the widest point since the Roaring Twenties.

Indian Court Convicts 4 in Fatal Gang Rape Case

An Indian court convicted four men Tuesday in the deadly gang rape of a young woman on a moving New Delhi bus, a brutal crime that galvanized public anger over …

Obama Talks Syria Diplomacy, Fallback Airstrikes

Pushing military might and raising hopes it won't be needed, President Barack Obama threw his support Tuesday behind a plan for U.N. Security Council talks aimed at securing Syria's chemical …

Apple Introduces 2 New iPhone Models

Apple's latest iPhones will come in a bevy of colors and two distinct designs, a cheaper one made of plastic and another that aims to be "the gold standard of …

Did La. Parish 'Jump the Gun' on One Lake 'No' Vote?

Dallas Quinn, spokesman for the Pearl River Vision Foundation, said St. Tammany Parish, La., officials failed to get input from his group before passing a resolution against the flood-control plan …

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Wilma Mosley Clopton

"For a person who has been everywhere, now I have a focus," Wilma Mosley Clopton says.

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