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Here's a batch of some of my favorite 2009 reads to fuel your holiday gift list.

Attorney General Jim Hood says a Grenada police officer has been arrested on charges of sexual battery of a minor.

While many of the city's historic theatres have closed its doors or were reincarnated into something else completely, The Bloor Cinema has endured, becoming the go-to spot to see anything classic or cult.

A married couple from Mississippi face felony charges in connection with the theft of a diamond ring from a local jewelry store.

Morgan Freeman says he agreed to participate in a Canadian-made documentary about his Mississippi hometown because he felt that children there were being "warped" by racism.

It's a fine October weekend, and I'm on the phone with God himself. Well, more accurately, I'm on the phone with Morgan Freeman, who has played God a couple of times, as well as any number of human saints.

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.