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Civil rights marker vandalized again
The Neshoba County highway marker memorializing the 1964 killings of three civil rights workers by the Ku Klux Klan again has been vandalized, this time with the letters 'KKK' spray-painted across the sign on Mississippi 19.
Jordan Flake, a secondary education major from Philadelphia, is assisted by Jennifer Knox in the student services department at Mississippi State University Meridian while preparing to register for the 2010 spring semester.
Philadelphia and Neshoba County have asked the John C. Stennis Institute of Government at Mississippi State University to help create a comprehensive economic development plan.
The South Mississippi Sun Herald
Philadelphia, Neshoba Co. hope for economic plan
Philadelphia and Neshoba County have asked the John C. Stennis Institute of Government at Mississippi State University to help create a comprehensive economic development plan.
Jasper County electing school board member
Some voters in this Jasper County community will be going to the polls today to elect their representative on the East Jasper School Board.
Racist language has no place in civil debate
In his first months as president, Barack Obama has taken on some big problems-health care, the economic collapse, Iraq and Afghanistan-so it's no wonder there's heated debate going on.
Tasers: Deadly or useful devices?
Hundreds of Americans, including several in Mississippi, have died after being shocked with high-voltage stun guns touted as a nonlethal way to subdue suspects.
Steve Lambert: Few remember lives lost to earn the right to vote
I spoke with Carolyn Goodman twice before she died, and both times left feeling inspired and guilty.
Three high school marching bands continued the Pine Belt's tradition of exceptional music programs by placing in the top six in their divisions at the Mississippi Marching Band Championship last weekend.
Funkhouser snubbed at NAACP luncheon
Mayor Funky and Co-Mayor Squitiro came with a proclamation at to the the Centennial Freedom Fund Luncheon of the Kansas City NAACP.
It all started with a few tip offs. From there it went to a search warrant. After the Neshoba County Sheriff's Department and the Philadelphia Police Department executed the search warrant, Donnie Adkins, the Neshoba County Sheriff, said they discovered truth behind those tips.
Time for bold dreams of togetherness, NAACP...
The first African-American mayor of Philadelphia, Miss., told the NAACP of Kansas City today that hate-speech must end.
Natchez to host small town conference
Newly elected officials serving Mississippi's small towns will travel to Natchez next month for a two-day tutorial.
Gail Harrity Appointed President and COO of the Philadelphia Musem of Art
Before coming to Philadelphia, Ms. Harrity held the position of Deputy Director at New York's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, where she was project director for the Museum in planning for the Frank O. Gehry-designed Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain.
Testimony may change course of black revolutionary's trial
WASHINGTON - The excited voice on my answering machine was that of a woman who had read my Oct.
Synergetics has hired Daniel Burton of Philadelphia, Miss., as a cabling lead based out of the Starkville office.
Two exhibits are currently on display at the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art in Laurel.
Young to keynote NAACP banquet
Young to keynote NAACP banquet The Choctaw County NAACP will host the annual Freedom Fund Banquet October 10.
Civil War and railroads led to decline of Pas resort economy
Pascagoula was the chief summer resort of the South between 1840 and 1861, according to Judge Charles E. Chidsey's retrospect on the towns of Scranton and Pascagoula.
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