Port Gibson News

A lawsuit filed in Claiborne County attacks how taxes are levied - and distributed - on the Grand Gulf Nuclear Power Plant.

One would think being CEO of a municipal corporation with nearly 600 employees and an annual budget of more than $30 million would be a full-time job.

For many Asian-Indians in Mississippi, there is a common thread: Hinduism. 'Hinduism is a way of life,' said K.R. Rao, 76, of Brandon, a retired nuclear engineer who estimates that 90 percent to 95 percent of Asian-Indians here are Hindus.

Three years after John Hutchins was born in 1774 on the Natchez frontier, the British held a conference at Mobile with the Choctaw to agree to the purchase and boundaries of its Natchez District, which was being colonized on Indian lands.

Mississippi State Conservationist Homer Wilkes said serving in a top post in the U.S. Department of Agriculture would have been rewarding.

When it comes to jobs, financial security, the environment and our children's future, Mississippi's energy policies are critically important.

A Claiborne County man is dead after a bullet pierced the rear window of a vehicle.

Thomas W. Ross and Leah Ross of Port Gibson announce the engagement of their daughter, Amber Ross, to Brett Hartfield, son of John and Vanessa Hartfield of Purvis.

By Jennifer Jacob Brown jjacob@themeridianstar.com Shane Blanton's passion about educating our children is highly evident, to say the least.

Mississippi has dozens of small heritage and history trails and tours, many maintained by communities or organizations or cities and counties.

Reading my Passover Haggadah at our household Seder a few nights ago , I came across my favorite words in the Bible.

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson will host a summit at Tougaloo College Saturday he says will open doors for small- and medium-sized businesses to contract with the Homeland Security Department.

PORT GIBSON, Miss. - Signs lining Port Gibson residents' yards implore the city to "Save Church Street." Academy Award-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss is pushing for battlefield preservation in Port Gibson.

A man is dead and a woman hurt after a shooting in Claiborne County Thursday evening.

The Claborne County coroner tells us that 25-year-old Roderick Thompson is dead.

A Port Gibson man is dead and his girlfriend injured after a shooting at home in Port Gibson.

Among the groups of settlers arriving in Natchez country in the months prior to the American Revolution was an organization of New Englanders known as "The Company of Military Adventurers." The group was led by ...

While Anthony Hutchins was settling in Natchez country in the 1770s, so was a man named Sam Gibson, who later founded Port Gibson.

Dueling 7-footers in same town - Feb 11, 2009 11:30:33 posted by: Ryan Powell You don't see this very often.

Inmate released on medical leave is linked to a fatal shooting. "He just started shooting, and I got out the way," Henry Wilson.