Jackson News

It was a frigid overnight and morning across Mississippi as the coldest air mass of the season settled over the region.

Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Alexander Shumate of Frisco, Texas are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Abby Grace Shumate, to John Denton Bankson, III, son of Mr.

Jackson police said they were called to Carter Avenue where they found a boy's body.

Vivica Fox, a longtime friend of singer Whitney Houston, was in Jackson for a charity event on Saturday night when word was received of Houston's death.

JACKSON, Miss. &#8212 All the people outraged about the Mississippi bill to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America" have missed its satirical intent, the sponsor said Thursday.

JACKSON, Miss. - The parents of two boys who say they were punched during high school baseball hazing rituals say they're being victimized again - this time because they aren't being allowed to play sports after switching schools.

WLBT 3 - Jackson, MS: Madonna on M.I.A.'s Super Bowl middle finger gesture: "I wasn't happy about it" Viewers weren't the only ones taken aback by M.I.A. 's middle finger gesture during Madonna 's Super Bowl halftime show.

Before being interviewed for an upcoming documentary on corporal punishment, interim Jackson Public Schools Superintendent Jayne Sargent talks about the opposition to corporal punishment in school systems.

Bettye Howard of Jackson shops for produce in the new Food Depot located in what was once Brookshire's at the intersection of Terry and McDowell roads.

The following article was submitted by the Kirkwood School District . North Kirkwood Middle School students were treated to a piece of living history during a presentation on Friday.

JACKSON, Miss. - Attorney General Jim Hood says Mississippi's share of the landmark settlement with the nation's top mortgage lenders should be about $47.1 million.

On Saturday, actress Vivica A. Fox will host the "Ladies of Legac-E" fashion show fundraiser, called "Runway of Love" at Union Station.

On Thursday, Melvin Peterson, 36, of Jackson escaped from a work detail near the department's downtown jail facility off Tombigbee Street, Hinds County Sheriff's Department Capt.

JACKSON, Miss. -- The Mississippi Supreme Court on Thursday declined to hear an appeal from a Calhoun County man who claimed he was denied his right to a speedy trial.

You couldn't blame Kathryn Stockett for feeling down and depressed a few years ago.

Feuding attorneys asked the Mississippi Supreme Court on Thursday to determine the validity of pardons that Haley Barbour gave to convicted killers and other convicts during his final days as governor.

A second arrest has been made in the beating of a 62-year-old Vicksburg welder at a Jackson scrap... •What: Dixie National Rodeo •When: Through Feb.

JACKSON, Miss. -- State Rep. Steve Holland wants to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America for "official purposes within the state of Mississippi." Holland, D-Plantersville, said the measure aims to mock anti-immigrant legislation that he finds mean-spirited and insignificant.

Cancer survivor Jacqueline Vann, chief financial officer at New Horizon Church International in Jackson, discusses the American Cancer Society's Cancer Prevention Study during a news conference Wednesday at the Jackson Medical Mall.

On a freezing February night, good Samaritans found a box on the side of a Jackson road with an almost lifeless puppy inside, barely breathing and cold as ice.