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Declining revenue will result in changes to Mississippi higher education, according to the governor and state education officials. But supporters of the state's three public, historically black universities say an unfair share...
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...
This Dec. 3, 2008 file photo shows Mississippi Republican Gov. Haley Barbour talking to reporters in Jackson, Miss. "Next year's going to be a good year for Republican governors," predicted Haley Barbour, Mississippi's governor...
NEWPORT NEWS, Va., AVONDALE, La. and PASCAGOULA, Miss., Nov. 19, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE:NOC) Shipbuilding sector has raised over $2.4 million for the 2009 United Way campaign.
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...
JACKSON, Miss. -- Junior Achievement of Mississippi has been dissolved because of financial problems. JA of Mississippi is a nonprofit affiliated with JA Worldwide, which draws volunteers from the business community to teach...
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...
