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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.

JACKSON - The ex-director of an agency that receives federal money annually and two contractors have been indicted for conspiring to embezzle money from the agency, authorities said yesterday.

Nancy Loome, director of the Parents' Campaign, an education advocacy organization, discusses the Joint Legislative Budget Committee state fiscal 2015 budget recommendations, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013 in Jackson, Miss., following the release of the recommended state's fiscal year 2015 operating budget.

Life Legal Defense Foundation Files on Behalf of Pro-Life Mississippi Contact: Tom Ciesielka, 312-422-1333, tc@tcpr.net JACKSON, Miss., July 23, 2014 / Christian Newswire / -- Today, Life Legal Defense Foundation filed a lawsuit against the City of Jackson Mississippi Police Department in United States District Court for the Southern District of ... (more)

DEVELOPING RIGHT NOW... A SHOOTING VICTIM WALKS INTO A GAS STATION THEN DISAPPEARS.

JACKSON - A federal judge is scheduled to hear arguments tomorrow in a lawsuit filed by a group seeking Mississippi voter records.

Amazing how the cops tell these anti abortion folks their signs are ok at the start of the tape and then stand by with arms folded as the signs are stolen.

The Striped Pig Distillery's aptly named mascot, Jackson - the Striped Pig, was unable to attend the popular King Street Second Sunday event in Charleston this month due to requests from Second Sunday organizers.