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A new Associated Press-GfK poll finds two-thirds of Americans now say illegal immigration is a serious problem for the country, a figure that's up 14 points since May. For nearly two months, images of immigrant children who have crossed the border without a parent, only to wind up in concrete holding cells once in United States, have tugged at ... (more)

Activists who spent the last week defending abortion clinics, doctors and patients against anti-choice extremists in New Orleans have moved onto the next reproductive rights battleground: Jackson, Miss.

The bride is the granddaughter of Leatrice Buie and the late Jesse Buie of Brookhaven, MS, and the late Mr. and Mrs. Robert Chaney of Meridian, MS.

WHO DIDN'T WANT TO BE IDENTIFIED--- DIDN'T KNOW HER HOUSE WAS VANDILIZED--- UNTIL OUR CREW SHOWED- UP.

BREAKING NEWS RIGHT NOW.... A HOUSE FIRE IN JACKSON 16 WAPT'S HADAS BROWN IS LIVE ON WOODROW WILSON BOULEVARD.

JACKSON, Mississippi - The City of Jackson, Jackson State University and Tim Bennett, owner of Overtime Sports, may begin talks in the next few weeks on the feasibility of building a baseball stadium for JSU in the Historic Farish Street District.

Lollapalooza, Chicago's grandest stage for music legends from across the globe. Connecting with the city's deep musical heritage, Lollapalooza set down roots and made Chicago its home in 2005.

JACKSON, Miss. - Director Tate Taylor, who is from Mississippi, was excited Sunday about his second big motion picture filmed in his home state as a crowd of VIPs and others gathered for a screening in Madison Mississippi rolls out red carpet for 'Get On Up' JACKSON, Miss.

JACKSON - Mississippi Republican Party Chairman Joe Nosef says Chris McDaniel should hurry up and challenge the June 24 runoff results if McDaniel intends to do so.

Project manager Wilson Alvarez of Jackson, Mississippi-Johnson Construction tells The Daily Comet completion is expected in January 2016.

On Wednesday, Lifetime premiered BAPs, a reality show that follows "an exclusive, privileged and affluent group of African American friends from St. Louis who self-identify as 'BAPs' - Black American Princesses and Princes."

Come August and there would be many musical festivals in the US for the locals and the tourists visiting the country.

JACKSON - Mississippi has received fewer than 200 of the unaccompanied immigrant children who crossed the U.S. border and were released to sponsors so far this year, but the war of words over such children continues within the state.

Heritage Equity Partners is helping with the sale of the Vicksburg-based company and its subsidiaries, Polyvulc Tire Recycling LLC, a tire shredding facility in Jackson, Mississippi; and Winnsboro Rubber Recycling LLC, a crumb rubber plant in Winnsboro, Louisiana.

SAY THEY MADE A LOT OF MISTAKES ON THE NIGHT OF HELEN HARRION'S DEATH. 16 WAPT'S SCOTT SIMMONS INVESTIGATES THE 9-1-1-PROTOCOL.

CHASE. 16 WAPT'S TAMMY ESTWICK EXPLAINS WHAT HAPPENED. WATCH AS INVESTIGATORS PULL CASH AND BULLETS OUT OF THE POCKETS OF A MAN THEY SAY ROBBED TWO BUSINESSES IN LESS THEN 10 MINUTES.

"I have a prowler around my house," Harrion is heard saying on the 911 call she made in the early morning hours of July 15. "I do think our officers could have done a better job," former Police Chief Lindsey Horton said the day after Harrion's body was found.

THE CAR'S OWNER SAYS SOMEONE STOLE HIS 19-68 FORD- GALAXIE-500. AT A CROWDED-GAS- STATION ON CAPITOL STREET IN JACKSON.

A 35-year-old woman says she was forced at gunpoint to strip off her clothes at the Shell Gas station and convenience store on Daniel Lake Boulevard.

The airport situated in Rankin County had just turned 25 when Vanderleest arrived from Huntsville, Ala., where he managed that city's airport under an executive director.