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Last week's public hearing at East Union High School, near Blue Springs, related to routing the northern leg of a proposed new economic development highway serving the Toyota assembly plant, drew more than 200 ...

The Justice Department again is examining the Ku Klux Klan's 1964 killings of three civil rights workers in Neshoba County, known as the 'Mississippi Burning' case.

Family traveling from Trumann, AR to Philadelphia, MS. Cars separated by Tractor-Trailer, elderly couple lost Found hours later at destination, safe and sound dennis.turner@wreg.com A missing elderly couple ...

By now you've all seen or heard about Sarah Palin's TV interview last Thursday following her gubernatorial pardon of a turkey in Alaska.

From staff reports An upcoming hair show will not only be about looking good, but also feeling good - through giving.

PHILADELPHIA - The state of Mississippi has returned what's known as the "Mother Mound" to the Band of Choctaw Indians.

Barack Obama's victory represents a seismic and historic shift for race relations in America.

Sonja Monk plans on becoming a tribal leader with the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians in the future.

I'm thinking of spending a long and lazy fall afternoon at a beautiful lake, and that would be Kemper Lake, 652 acres of spring-fed water.

One of east Mississippi's largest employers is laying off over a hundred people.

Lorenz Maycher, Director of Music at First Trinity Presbyterian Church of Laurel, is one of four homeowners who will open his home to the public during the 36th annual Holiday Homes Tour on Sunday, Dec.

As I'm writing this, it's Nov. 4, 2008 - election day. At stake are 35 Senate races, 435 House races, 11 governors' contests and, of course, the presidency.

Artist, art educator and 2008 Governor's Award recipient Lallah Miles Perry died Thursday night in Jackson.

SHE'S 62 years old, has personal experience of the Klu Klux Klan beating her family and has never for one moment dreamed a black man would be on the verge of entering the White House.

One of country's most historically minded new traditionalists, Marty Stuart was also one of the most eclectic, moving between honky tonk, rockabilly, country-rock, traditional country, and bluegrass.

If journalism is the first draft of history, it's not fair to judge one era by the standards of another.

Graveside services will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at Heidelberg Cemetery for Charles C. Waldrup Jr., 84, of Heidelberg, who died Oct.

For Dan Jordan, it's almost time to turn over the helm at Monticello. On Oct. 31, the Philadelphia native retires as president of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, which owns the founding father's mansion and ...

Gaming taxes collected by Vicksburg, Warren County and the Vicksburg Warren School District from bets placed at the four local casinos were down slightly once again in the month of September, closing out a ...

Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman, co-owner of The Ground Zero Blues Club, will kick off the first annual Blues at The Moon Festival at 6:30 tonight at Golden Moon Hotel & Casino near Philadelphia.