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Arkansas Shooter Pleads Not Guilty After Confession

This morning, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, 24, a Little Rock man formerly known as Carlos Bledsoe, pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and 15 counts of engaging in terrorist activities. Muhammad …

College Baseball: Eagles, Rebels Advance To Super Regionals

Southern Miss and Ole Miss were winners in NCAA Regionals on Monday night.

Pro Basketball: WNBA Really Getting Desperate

A WNBA team is selling out. Couldn't they get Chico's Bail Bonds to be a sponsor?

Tuesday's Votes Will Decide Three City Posts

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Jacksonians will be going to the polls for the third time in four weeks tomorrow, casting their votes for mayor and city council seats. In the race for mayor, Harvey …

Jackson Clinic on Alert

The Jackson Women's Health Organization is on high alert today after an assassin gunned down Dr. George Tiller, an abortion provider in Kansas yesterday. The Jackson clinic is the only …

College Baseball: Rebels, Eagles In Do-or-Die Games

Ole Miss and Southern Miss both lost NCAA Regional games on Sunday. They must play winner-take-all games on Monday. The prizes is a trip to the Super Regionals.

College Baseball: Eagles, Rebels Win

Southern Miss and Ole Miss both won on Saturday and advanced to the finals of their respective regionals on Sunday. Now each needs just one victory in the next two …

[From The Pages] Ruth Reichl book signing

When CondeNast shut down Domino magazine, I mourned for a while. Then I found solace in the joys of cooking magazines.

Saturday Update

The Ole Miss and Southern Miss baseball teams are winners. Jackson State suspends its offensive coordinator.

First Chick Ball Event: JFP v. WAPT Skate-off May 30!

Per the Magnolia Roller Vixens site:

Tweet-off to skate-off: Media Twitter Queens Donna Ladd (@donnerkay and @jxnfreepress) of the JFP and Dawn Dugle of 16 WAPT News (@mswrite1 and @16waptnews) will skate off Saturday a.m. to …

Will ‘Donna Madd' Be Able to Skate Saturday!?!

OK, the denial is about to wear off: I really am going to have a skate-off against Dawn Dugle of WAPT at the National Guard Armory in Clinton on Saturday …

Weekend Happenings

It's not over until the fat lady sings. Tuesday are general elections in Jackson. Now is not the time to sit it out only to watch your candidate lose. Absentee …

Several Independents Running for Jackson Mayor

Next Tuesday, June 2, Jacksonians will go to the polls once again, this time for the general elections and all the marbles in the races for mayor and council seats. …

Small Businesses Honored

[verbatim] The Mississippi U.S. Small Business Administration will honor its 2009 small business award winners during a dinner reception on Tuesday, June 16 at the Mississippi e-Center @ JSU located …

Johnson Receives Crisler's Support

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Lawmakers Idle Waiting for Budget

The Mississippi Legislature is spending about $19,000 a day with little or nothing to do, for the most part. Lawmakers have finished all of their business for the current session, …

Bounds Asks for 200 Teachers

Teach for America, a program that trains college students to teach in under-served, poor communities, is seeing record numbers of graduates applying. Mississippi State Superintendent of Education, has asked the …

Repeat Street

While Repeat Street might look every part the unassuming strip mall space as you drive past on Ridgewood Road, you'd kick yourself for weeks if you passed it up. A …

The Best In Sports In 7 Days

Southern League baseball, Mississippi at Birmingham (7:05 p.m., Hoover, Ala., 103.9 FM): The M-Braves, the SL South's worst team, continue their series with the Barons, the SL South's best team.

The Changing Saga of ‘Two Lakes'

Last week John McGowan of McGowan Working Partners LLC visited us here at the JFP offices for a marathon lunch session to discuss his "Two Lakes" project.