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We wonder how much she got?! Actor Morgan Freeman was driving with Demaris Meyer in Charleston, Mississippi back in August 2008 when he lost control of the car.

An Associated Press wire story about Academy Award-winning actor and Mississippi native Morgan Freeman lending a hand to his business partner who is laying the groundwork to run for governor of Mississippi in 2011, notes: 'Freeman has written a fund-raising letter and is one of the hosts for a cocktail party in Los Angeles next week for Bill ...

DEMOCRATIC gubernatorial contender Bill Luckett's status as a friend and business partner of Academy Award-winning actor and Mississippi treasure Morgan Freeman was supposed to have been Luckett's political icebreaker.

Academy-Award winner Morgan Freeman says Mississippi is "starving" for the right leadership, so the actor is using his celebrity status to help his friend run for governor in 2011.

The following information was taken from the log book at the David M. Bryan Justice Complex.

Though he's produced dramas for such entities as Disney, USA Network, and MCA Universal, and shot renown photographs of the Beatles, it is Paul Saltzman's ties to Mississippi and the documentaries he's produced featuring Morgan Freeman which aptly influenced his company name 'Return to Mississippi Productions.' One of Saltzman's latest ...

This week I watched the HBO documentary "Prom Night In Mississippi" - and was struck by the contrast between what happened in Charleston, Mississippi, in 2008, and this notion that we are living in some sort of post-racial society.

I grew up in a small, rural town in southwest Louisiana. At the time I went to high school black kids and white kids had separate proms.

In April, On Location: Memphis International Film Festival screened the Morgan Freeman-involved film Prom Night in Mississippi .

After years of separate proms for white and black students, a high school in Charleston, Miss., holds its first integrated dance in 2008, thanks in part to actor and resident Morgan Freeman's offer to pay for it.

Most networks are happy to make their HD upgrades strictly technical in nature. BBC America is beefing up its content to go along with its sharper high-def transmission.

An ex-Mississippi law enforcement officer convicted of insurance fraud was sentenced today to serve a year in prison.

A name starting to come up on recruiting boards around the state this summer is Willie Bradford of Charleston, Miss.

A Charleston man accused of armed robbery was referred to the grand jury Wednesday by Batesville Municipal Judge William McKenzie III.

The state budget approved by Gov. Haley Barbour this week includes record-high funding increases for education and health care, but he warned those are generous windfalls that will dry up in 2011.

Penn Cage isn't listed in the Natchez phone book, but over the years Cage has become an active member of Natchez society - at least in several books by Natchez author Greg Iles.

JACKSON - The woman in the passenger seat the night Morgan Freeman crashed a car on a rural Mississippi highway was partly to blame for the accident, the actor's attorney said Friday in court papers.

Morgan Freeman was born on June 1st, 1937 in Memphis, Tennessee. He attended Los Angeles Community College prior to serving several years in the US Air Force.

Joy Lambert Phillips, general counsel for Hancock Holding Co., has been named corporate executive vice president.

The summer job market is typically more competitive, given the increase in college and high school students looking for jobs, as well as nine-month education employees seeking temporary work.