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JACKSON, Miss. -- Move over balloon boy: a teen in Jackson has provided new drama. But this was no hoax. "I've been living here, ma'am, since 1968, and I never seen anything like this," neighbor Ida Allen told WLBT News. Around...
By HOLBROOK MOHR - Associated Press Writer JACKSON, Miss. -- Bria Danielle Morris was sentenced to nearly seven years Friday for stealing the identity of someone she met at a women's shelter and using it to rip off a charity,...
JACKSON, Miss. -- Two women faced federal sentencing Friday in scheme in which one of them stole the identity of someone she met at a women's shelter and used it to rip off people, businesses and charities. Prosecutors said the...
Gov. Haley Barbour's plan to merge Mississippi's three historically black universities has created a tense atmosphere in a state saddled with a violent civil rights past and a decades-long legal battle over the historic...
Gov. Haley Barbour's plan to merge Mississippi's three historically black universities has created a tense atmosphere in a state saddled with a violent civil rights past and a decades-long legal battle over the historic...
Authorities Say Boy Was Stuck For More Than 2 Hours JACKSON, Miss. -- Emergency crews in Jackson, Miss., freed a boy stuck in a chimney Thursday morning, Jackson television station WAPT reported A neighbor said she heard...
They were racially motivated civil rights era murders. All are cold cases. The FBI says it is determined to bring justice for these racist deaths, some involving white police officers. The FBI is looking for help in tracking...
By HOLBROOK MOHR - Associated Press Writer JACKSON, Miss. -- Five people have been indicted on federal charges related to theft of more than 100 guns from the Tchula Police Department, officials and court records said. The guns...
JACKSON, Miss. -- James Arnold Flowers, a War World II veteran who survived the Bataan Death March, will be honored Thursday when a portion of a Mississippi highway is named for him. It's a rare honor for a living person....
Elizabeth Crisp • elizabeth.crisp@clarionledger.com • November 18, 2009 Mississippi's community colleges are seeing record growth, but they are not immune from Gov. Haley Barbour's recommendations for widespread budget cuts and...
