Marks News

Chris and Becky Elmore of Vance announce the arrival of their son Noah Scott, born May 1 at Northwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center in Clarksdale.

The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spent the 1950s advocating racial harmony and peaceful co-existence between blacks and whites with the Word of God as his spiritual weapon, as well as through his nonviolence demonstrations.

SIZABLE LOSSES:: Labor Department figures to be released yesterday were expected to show the fewest reductions in the number of US jobs since November AP, WASHINGTON Saturday, May 09, 2009, Page 10 Unemployed handyman Napoleon Leonard cooks a pot of squirrel soup on his makeshift stove on Thursday at the spot where his house once stood before it ...

Saturday night may have been a ton of fun for many people who were at the Jones County Junior College fine arts building, but there was a serious cause underlying the event.

At least five people, including four children, were killed in residential fires over the weekend.

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference hopes to mobilize 50,000 people in the Mississippi Delta this summer in a campaign to draw attention to the poverty of a region where some Americans still live in homes with dirt floors and brown water flows from their faucets.

A national nonprofit advocacy group has given Mississippi a D-plus and Louisiana a C-minus in recruiting and retaining quality teachers and getting rid of those who are ineffective in the classroom.

At 84, McKinley Lott may be one of the oldest individuals indicted for murder in the metro area.

It's not every day Jackson State University students get to sit in the Student Center and eat lunch with people old enough to be their grandparents.

From Press Reports Kimberly Morgan, Miss Mississippi 2007, will judge at tonight's Miss Merry Christmas Parade of Beauties.