Clarksdale News

This week folklorist William Ferris returns to Mississippi to promote his new book, Give My Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues.

Novelist Carolyn Haines, a Lucedale native and University of Southern Mississippi graduate, has some advice for anyone planning to participate in National Novel Writing Month.

Part of the problem is that I grew up on the stuff. At least my girlfriend is convinced of this.

James "Super Chikan" Johnson's chicken shack, out back behind his family's Clarksdale home, is a work in progress.

On a crisp, sunny Monday morning, several hundred people gathered in Batesville, Miss., for the renaming of the Batesville Job Corps Center to the Finch-Henry Job Corps Center.

When you walk the streets of Clarksdale, Mississippi, you can still hear the voice of blues legend Robert Johnson - ringing from the shop windows as well as from passing cars.

Several DUIs were on the trial docket Wednesday in Batesville Municipal Court. Bobby W. Davis, 78 Kiihnl, Sardis, entered a not guilty plea to Judge Bill McKenzie for DUI-second. A trial was set for December 2. Willie Martin, 107 CR 343, Taylor, entered a guilty plea to DUI-first and careless driving.

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 ...

The Mississippi Delta soon could be home to a 'very sophisticated, advanced manufacturing' operation that would create 500 jobs in five years, Gov.

Fred Lenard, Jr. is charged with killing his ex-girlfriend and leaving their son tied up in a field, where he was bitten by snakes.

A Nov. 9 trial date is set in Coahoma County Circuit Court for a man charged with capital murder in the death of his former girlfriend and with kidnapping and child abuse of the couple's then 3-year-old son.

Distance in the Mississippi Delta seemed to defy all mathematical properties that governed the rest of the world.

For Linder Burt, preparing lunch and supper for a dozen adults every day isn't a hardship; it's a life-saving blessing.

More Stellaaahhh!!! Festival honors Tennessee Williams October 15, 2009 12:09 PM EDT CLARKSDALE, Miss.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 1:13 p.m. CLARKSDALE, Miss. a ' 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.

Pine Belt students got real-life advice Sept. 30 on what happens when bad decisions are made.

Pine Belt students got real life advice Wednesday on what happens when bad decisions are made.

A toxicology report shows a 2-1/2-year-old girl in the Mississippi Delta died last month from an overdose of prescription medication intended to prevent seizures.

The Mississippi High School Activities Association is investigating a bench-clearing brawl that erupted the end of last weekend's football game between players for Coahoma County High School and Coahoma Agricultural High School.

Federal prosecutors want four defense lawyers disqualified from the case of a Coahoma County supervisor charged with soliciting prostitution from women he met on the Internet.