January News

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As the students lined up in the hallway, waiting to enter the room where their cellos are stored, their teacher played a few notes on his own instrument.

The Knights of Peter Claver, Ladies Auxiliary, Our Lady of Lourdes, Court #4, presented the 2013 Debutante Cotillion recently at the B. E. McGinty Civic Center in Pascagoula.

Ray Bell and Gemorrow Hughes of Cleveland Public Works discuss bales of plastic the city has collected since the new recycling program began in January.

Nissan is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its Canton plant with a free-to-all Saturday festival at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Jackson that includes a circus, concert by Kool & the Gang and fireworks show.

Carter opened the Jackson moving services franchise in January at the age of 50 after spending more than 20 years in the insurance industry.

After 2005's "Try!" and 2006's "Continuum," John Mayer seemed to have jumped into maturity as a songwriter and was prepared to enter a new phase of his career.

How's this for chutzpah. Both U.S. senators from Oklahoma, Sen. James Inhofe and Sen.

The Pearl Library is so excited that Dudley Sykes will be reading from and talking about his new novel, The Lynching of Malcolm Brown at this month's Brown Bag Luncheon on January 25th! Sykes is a lifetime member of the Friends of the Pearl Library and has always been a huge supporter of this library.

The past few years, Hosemann has assembled study groups populated by representatives from almost every industry that does business in Mississippi to kick around ideas.

After failing to attract a temporary leader for Mississippi Valley State University, the College Board has decided to look for permanent president for the Itta Bena school.

First-grader Elijah Archer moved in January from a school in Springfield to Brayton Elementary in North Adams.

Tiffany Gaines of Powder Springs holds her 7A1 2-month-old daughter, Destini. Gaines was diagnosed with breast cancer while she was seven months pregnant with Destini and completed her last cycle of chemotherapy in January.

California's unemployment rate has fallen to its lowest level in 4 1/2 years as the state experienced one of the sharpest drops in joblessness nationwide, the state Employment Development Department reported Friday.

The Sierra Club has asked the Mississippi Supreme Court to order the Public Service Commission to again reconsider its approval of the $4.3 billion coal-fired power plant Mississippi Power Co.

The Tupelo Furniture Market has shifted the dates of its spring market to mid-January in order to give buyers and manufacturers a jump on tax refund season.

A July 8 trial date is set for a contraband tobacco case sealed in federal court more than a year.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has revoked the exhibitor's license of the Collins Zoo following a hearing before an administrative law judge.

Today's infographic is a map of the State Beer Excise Tax Rates for each of the fifty states as of January 1, 2013.

Dan Turner and Dianne Turner were finally able to meet with family and friends in the hospital as his therapy began to pay off.