January News

Remember when George Stephanopoulos, at the New Hampshire Republican debate on January 7, brought up and harped on whether the candidates thought states could ban contraception? Everyone, at least on our side of the aisle, shook their heads in disbelief as to why Stephanopoulos was bringing up the issue.

District figures show that, as of January, 49.4 percent of students enrolled in the Fayette County Public Schools were receiving free or reduced-cost school meals, based on their families' low incomes.

Join the fun at The Book Exchange as New York Times best-selling author Karen White introduces author Stephanie McAfee to local readers at an author reception and book signing Thursday.

The online bulletin board - Pinterest has users pinning their interests really fast.

The singer-songwriter of '90s hits such as "Supermodel" and "I Kissed a Girl" will perform a one night only concert at Asolo Repertory Theatre on Monday, February 13, 2012 at 8:00 p.m. The concert will feature Sobule's original music as well as songs from Asolo Rep's production of Yentl, which opens January 20, 2012.

A giant tortoise species studied by Charles Darwin and believed to be extinct for more than 150 years may be alive and well, an ambitious genetic survey has revealed.

No Broadway show has ever run long enough to reach the milestone of 10,000 performances.

Whitney Houston's ex-husband Bobby Brown and on/off boyfriend Ray J are heartbroken after the singer passed away.

Les bon temps are underway! Carnival season in the Big Easy ends with the grand parade on February 21, 2012.

The family of actor John Dye, whose career included the role of Andrew, the angel of death, in the long-running television series "Touched by an Angel," has donated some of his memorabilia to the Amory Regional Museum.

Captain John Handy's legacy to the Mississippi Coast is not just the music that made him the Handy Man with the Sax.

It's been nearly nine months since a Pottsboro family lost their 27-year-old daughter.

Trumpeter swans flock to Fish Hook River; January and February are the best months to see them as they migrate.

After a successful pilot program in 2011, Monsanto and FFA have teamed up to bring the FFA Chapter challenge back.

The adjustment will lower a Mississippi residential winter gas bill using 100 Ccf of natural gas by 19 percent.

The Elba School Board voted Thursday night to rescind their motion of January 31st to handle the search for a new Superintendent "in house". The board then voted to contract with the Alabama Association of School Boards to accept applications for the job and recommend a short list of candidates to the board.

In his article, " The Caging of America " in the January 30, 2012 issue of The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik quotes Robert Perkin's " Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire ," who argues that the South is "the fountainhead of subjugationist discipline." That is, America's prison system is a slave plantation, a way of reimposing Jim Crow.

Burger Mama's, the Little Rock burger joint that had been at the corner of Shackleford and Kanis until a move to a strip mall near the corner of Cantrell and Mississippi in mid-January , was closed Thursday and Friday last week due to unpaid taxes.

MONSANTO PROVIDES UPDATE, SCHEDULE OF ITS "AMERICA'S FARMERS MOBILE EXPERIENCE" Feb.

Last month, a fire destroyed an ancient tree in central Florida. At 3,500 years old, the Senator was one of the oldest bald cypress trees in the world, and, at 118 feet, one of the tallest east of the Mississippi.