Inverness News

Two men from Mississippi. One is white, the other black. As youngsters, neither of them knew what segregation meant and they thought nothing of each other's skin color.

Authorities have ruled as a murder-suicide the deaths of a teenage girl and a 35-year-old man.

Don't throw the past away You might need it some rainy day Dreams can come true again When ev'ry thing old is new again. via NEA Today

“If they can find activities that are relatively short in duration, this helps them feel like they have some power over their lives. When things like this happen, one of the senses is that they have no control or power.”

The first step in emotional recovery after last Friday's storms is trying to return to normalcy, says Buddy Wagner, who heads the Mississippi College Counseling & Testing Center. via The Clarion-Ledger

A total of $1.85 million in federal awards will enable Mississippi Public Broadcasting to upgrade digital television transmitters in the state and ensure that rural areas will continue to receive TV signals ... via The Clarion-Ledger

“I didn't like picking cotton because it was out in the hot sun. ... It seemed that was all a black man could do”

John W. Campbell grew up in the Mississippi Delta community of Inverness the son of a sharecropper. via Starkville Daily News