Canton News

ANSWERS TONIGHT AFTER A MAN FOUND A BODY HIDDEN IN SOME BUSHES, BEHIND A HOME ON BOYD STREET.

"Chinn was a black man in Canton, Mississippi, who in the 1960s owned ... a large collection of pistols, rifles, and shotguns with which he threatened local Klansmen and police when they attempted to encroach on his businesses or intimidate civil rights activists working to desegregate Canton and register black residents to vote," Russell recounts.

It's the 50th anniversary of Mississippi Freedom Summer: the 1964 campaign, led by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, to register large numbers of African Americans to vote.

Mississippi's biggest construction company is celebrating their 50th anniversary this year.

In this new position, Gibb has direct responsibility for all manufacturing operations in Canton, including Body/Stamping, Paint and Trim & Chassis.

District 1199C has just finished negotiating very tough contract re-openers in 38 of Philadelphia's biggest and most important healthcare institutions.

Harp master and singer Grady Champion respects that fact as any son of the southern state would.

Officials say Madison County will see about $7 million from the Nissan plant in 2014, almost twice as much as it received last year.

College students and veteran activists rally for a union election at the Nissan plant in Canton, Mississippi on June 27. CANTON, Miss.

On Tuesday's broadcast of Fox News Channel's "Hannity," network correspondent Ainsley Earhardt unveiled one of the attack radio spots that aired on stations around the state including WMGO 1370 AM in Canton, MS .