Jackson News

Move over balloon boy: a teen in Jackson has provided new drama. But this was no hoax.

The White House Office of National AIDS policy hosts a town hall meeting in Mississippi.

A former burglary detective has been charged in five business robberies that happened in the last 24 hours.

A Jackson bank was robbed Wednesday by a man who pulled up in a taxicab, police said.

JACKSON, Miss. - Federal agriculture authorities have declared disaster areas in parts of Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee due to crop losses from a combination of severe spring and fall flooding and summer drought.

Hinds County Sheriff Malcolm McMillin has confirmed his county-issued vehicle was burglarized in Jackson Halloween weekend.

An armed robber held up the manager at the Pizza Hut 2601 Highway 80 West this morning.

A Jackson man goes on trial this week for shooting a local war veteran several times.

Nov. 17 - Police are looking for the last person seen with a man found murdered last week.

A man pleaded guilty today to robbing a Jackson fast food restaurant, Hinds County District Attorney Robert Shuler Smith said.

A Ross Barnett Reservoir-area panel joined the chorus of groups opposed to apartments being built at a site near Spillway and Old Fannin roads.

JACKSON a ' Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said Monday the state should consider merging some of its universities to save money.

JACKSON, MS The battle of the bulge among African Americans in Mississippi was the subject of a BET network special Sunday.

From two stages in the Jackson area comes Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, a classical ballet that delights audiences young and old at Christmastime.

Teenagers make up almost 40 percent of those diagnosed with sexually transmitted diseases in Mississippi.

A Jackson man has been charged with murder in the shooting death of a woman earlier this year.

This is a late 1950's photograph provided by the Copiah County Office of Cultural Affairs of the home of legendary bluesman Robert Johnson in Hazlehurst, Miss.

The FBI and Hinds County Sheriff's Department are executing a search warrant at the home of Bolton resident Ricky Franklin, accused of raping a Jackson woman Saturday.

JACKSON, Miss. A settlement has been reached in a long-running fraud lawsuit filed against Richard "Dickie" Scruggs, the once powerful anti-tobacco litigator who is now behind bars, an attorney says.

In this July 30, 2009 file photograph, former Hinds County Circuit Judge Bobby DeLaughter enters the federal courthouse in Aberdeen, Miss.