Jackson News

NATCHEZ and JACKSON - The Adams County Board of Supervisors has selected the HORNE Group as the firm that will determine if the sale of county-owned Natchez Regional Medical Center is feasible.

Editor's Note: Darden North will have his first official signing for "Wiggle Room" at Lemuria Books in Jackson's Banner Hall on July 20 from 1:00-3:00 PM.

The Mississippi Main Street Association will celebrate the achievements of Mississippi Main Street communities and member towns at its Annual Awards Meeting and Luncheon on Thursday, June 20 at the Old Capitol Inn in downtown Jackson.

After being empty for nearly two years, the former Borders retail space on Lakeland Drive in Flowood will become home to the metro area's latest HomeGoods location.

Fifty years ago this month, two of the chief characteristics of the modern Civil Rights Movement were dramatically, tragically illuminated in Jackson, Miss.

Madison County sheriff's deputies are encroaching onto I-220 in Hinds County to issue speeding tickets outside their jurisdiction, Hinds County Supervisor Kenneth Stokes says.

The Mississippi Coalition for Public Charter Schools will be holding an informational conference next week at the Woolfolk Building in downtown Jackson to discuss the ins and outs of charter school formations in Mississippi.

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Note: As part of NPR's series on the summer of 1963, reporter Cory Turner headed to Jackson, Miss.

By JACK ELLIOTT JR. Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. - A man convicted of failing to register as a sex offender in Mississippi will be re-sentenced because a federal appeals panel threw out his prison term.

Programs touting reading, school safety and technology are among budget proposals for the Madison County schools.

Mississippi stands to be caught in the crossfire of what could be one of the most high-profile cases since Brown v.

JACKSON, Miss. -- Some defense lawyers are calling for an independent review of cases involving a pathologist whose testimony prompted the Mississippi Supreme Court to overturn two convictions.

JACKSON - The G.V. "Sonny" Montgomery Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Jackson has added 30 new mental health professionals.

It's no secret that Fondren is funky, an eclectic mix of shops, restaurants and galleries that pay homage to the Jackson neighborhood's past, but also has its pulse on the present and future.

It's been three years since the price of meals has gone up for students and teachers in the Clinton... If there is one herb my wife and I love to grow more than the rest, it has to be basil.

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant is expected to call a special session soon for state lawmakers to deal with Medicaid expansion issue.

Shirley Tipton , executive secretary to the dean in Mississippi College's School of Education , is the newest recipient of the university's Van "Doc" Quick Outstanding Staff Award.

TEC has appointed John Rosenblatt as systems engineer at LecNet Inc. in Jackson.

A Mississippi doctor convicted of orchestrating a $6.9 million Medicaid and Medicare fraud scheme will have her appeal heard in July by federal judges in New Orleans.