Jackson News

"This is my home, so I am on board with what's next. As a civic leader, I hope to have a chance to make a relationship with the mayor-elect that I don't know," businessman Jeff Good said.

My old friend Ray Smithhart would have loved the irony of union-fighting manufacturer Nissan making a gift of $100,000 to the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Institute.

The National Weather Service reports wind damage Tuesday night and early Wednesday stretching from Caddo Parish in northwest Louisiana to the Jackson, Miss.

Former Ward 2 Councilman and Chokwe Lumumba, 65, is the winner of the mayoral primary runoff election in Jackson, Miss., reports WAPT.com. "I think we just had a very difficult fight in order to win this office and we came out successful," Lumumba said from his victory party at the Clarion Hotel.

Local News: Redeemer Church PCA of Jackson will be hosting a Men's Golf Scramble this coming Saturday, May 25, from 2pm - 3pm in Bay Pointe, MS.

A journalist who covered the Civil Rights movement stopped by Glen Rock High School on May 13 to share his experiences.

The ranking linked here puts Jackson just behind Nashville, Tennessee and Charleston, West Virginia for lack of physical activity among its population.

Country singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Charlie Worsham was born September 1, 1985 in Jackson, Mississippi, and music became his main interest at a young age.

Jackson residents and many others in the metro area will head back to the polls Tuesday to vote in the runoff election.

Police said they traced an abandoned car that had been found on Denver Street to a home in the 1100 block of Arbor Vista Boulevard.

The Jackson, Mississippi press is reporting "crunch time" in a close mayor's race.

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At the end of a CBS Evening News story about where he got his start, it was announced that CBS News correspondent Randall Pinkston would be leaving the network.

The Boy Scouts of America will vote next week at its national meeting whether to partially lift its long-standing exclusion of gays.

A mixed-use development on the site of Jackson's Old Blind School has confirmed tenants a few months before construction begins.

A new anti-contractor fraud campaign is underway with a two-fold goal - educate Mississippi consumers on the best practices when choosing a contractor, particularly in the wake of a natural disaster, and give would-be bogus contractors a stern warning that preying on vulnerable homeowners will not be tolerated.

The Democratic candidates for Jackson mayor, Chokwe Lumumba and Jonathan Lee, didn't hold back during a runoff debate Friday night.

More than a half century after his wife drowned in a Louisiana lake, Mississippi native Felix Vail is now facing a murder charge in her death - making his case the oldest prosecution of a serial killer suspect in U.S. history.

Dr. John D. Damon is the CEO of Mississippi Children's Home Services in Jackson.

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, left, and Bill Krueger, vice chairman of Nissan Americas, talk before Kruegar spoke about models to be produced at Nissan's Canton, Mississippi, plant, Thursday, June 28, 2012, in Canton.