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"Eat Drink Delta: A Hungry Traveler's Journey through the Soul of the South" author Susan Puckett will explain all that and more tonight at the Georgia Center for the Book in a talk that's part of Decatur Arts Festival week.

MAY 22, 1963 -- "The stage appeared to be set for Gov. George C. Wallace to reach his face-to-face showdown with federal power," The News reported on this date after an order integrated The University of Alabama.

It is exactly 90 years since the very first regular radio broadcasts in Czechoslovakia began on 18 May 1923.

Facebook's flubbed initial public offering a year ago Saturday laid bare some important truths worth remembering even as major U.S. stock indexes score a string of all-time highs.

For more than 40 years, Noyes Capehart Long has been known as an accomplished artist and esteemed professor.

Now what?. Graduates chant the school's cheer at the conclusion of the University of Mississippi graduation ceremony in Oxford, Mississippi on Saturday, May 11, 2013.

Friends Forever is honored in welcoming Anne Romney and Bill Shaheen as the two newest members of their Board of Directors.

"Just Out of Reach" by Mississippi attorney Belinda Stevens tells the story of young love and dark secrets in the turbulent Sixties.

During former Sherman resident Phillip Jolly's Army Reserve promotion ceremony, Gen.

Sensitive people who consume cinnamon-flavored foods, drinks and food supplements may have a higher risk of liver damage, researchers from the University of Mississippi, USA, and King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, report in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry .

Northeast to hold commencement exercises BOONEVILLE - Northeast Mississippi Community College will recognize 481 graduates in two ceremonies this week.

He tells family members he may need more money and clothes, talks about hanging out with friends and sounds a little homesick.

Dr. Jim Pate, dean of the University of Mississippi Tupelo campus, took Itawamba Community College's Associate of Arts graduates on a journey during the 63rd commencement ceremony at the Fulton campus Saturday.

Edwin Walker received an enthusiastic welcome at Dallas Love Field in October 1962 after being arrested while protesting the use of federal troops to let a black man, James Meredith, enroll in the University of Mississippi.

Civil rights leader Myrlie Evers-Williams told graduates at the University of Mississippi on Saturday they have the power "to do what is right, to do what is just" and make the world a better place.

Myrlie Evers-Williams today became the first person in a decade honored with a Humanitarian Award by the University of Mississippi - the same institution that turned away her late husband from entering law school.

Zellner Construction Services LLC is a third-generation commercial construction company that has built a solid reputation for quality over quantity.

"We are thrilled about all that Bill and Anne will bring to the mission of Friends Forever as we embark on an exciting five-year plan and continue to connect more communities in the U.S and abroad with our innovative co-existence and youth leadership program," said Executive Director Stephen Martineau.

Mississippi Highway Patrol Major Rusty Barnes, 48, today was named Director of the Mississippi Office of Homeland Security.

Taking part in the Cinnamon Craze or eating a lot of the spice could cause liver damage, according to a new study.