Natchez News

The first $9.8 million project will install underwater radar on the Vicksburg bridge and Mississippi's three other highway bridges across the Mississippi.

JACKSON -- Mississippi on Tuesday marked its 196th anniversary of statehood, and officials said they're starting to plan a bicentennial celebration for 2017.

Allain died Dec. 2 at age 85. Even as he reached the height of state politics in the 1980s, friends and associates say the Democrat never got caught up in any pretentious trappings of office.

With the approach of Christmas, I was thinking of a couple of gifts I got when I was 6 or 7 and we lived in Natchez, Miss.

Dec. 07--NATCHEZ -- Jamarion and Jordan Scott had no idea who "The Godfather of Soul" was a couple of months ago, but soon the whole world will know the Natchez twins as young James Brown.

Friends and political allies on Friday remembered former Mississippi Gov. Bill Allain as an intelligent man who challenged the power structure and fought for everyday working people who couldn't afford lobbyists.

Former Mississippi Gov. Bill Allain will be buried in Natchez City Cemetery in a one-person mausoleum.

The announcement of former Mississippi Gov. Bill Allain's death this week at the age of 85 brought back memories of the time 30 years ago when Mississippi and the rest of the nation waded through one of the more bizarre chapters in the state's political history and perhaps the dirtiest campaign seen in this state before or since.

Dec. 03--Perhaps the sight of Mick Jagger walking Main Street created the head-slapping moment Natchez Mayor Butch Brown just had.

Most North Americans will recognize the word, "Natchez." They will probably associate it with antebellum plantations, the Mississippi River and maybe even a Native American tribe.

Dec. 02--NATCHEZ -- Mayor Butch Brown says he is in the process of establishing a local film commission to recruit filmmakers to the area.

Fifty-eight years ago today, Rosa Parks, then 43-years-old, became a lightening rod for the Civil Rights Movement when she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on the bus.

Time to hear the stories of the men and women who served the country during World War II is running out, and a local man is working to ensure those stories are preserved.

In this Nov. 20, 2013 photograph, a transmission antenna is affixed to the side of a pier on the Mississippi River bridge in Vicksburg, Miss.

Dec. 3 God bless us, everyone -- New Stage Theatre has a musical version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" set for the spotlight starting Tuesday and continuing through Dec. 20. If you need a dose of Christmas joy to chase the "bah, humbugs" away, here you go.

Edison shows off his phonograph, atom bomb testing heads underground, a chimpanzee orbits the Earth, the Pong craze begins, and the world loses another Beatle, all on this day.

The first $9.8 million project will install underwater radar on the Vicksburg bridge and Mississippi's three other highway bridges across the Mississippi.

Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Nov. 27--NATCHEZ -- The City of Natchez is again searching for accounting staff just more than a year after hiring two accountants to get the city's books back in order.

The National Weather Service says up to 5 inches of rain are possible in central Mississippi late Monday and Tuesday, combined with very cold temperatures.

According to an article posted Nov. 24 at TheGuardian.com , the iconic Rolling Stones frontman's grand-daughter Assisi is having a baby, which will make the veteran rocker a first-time great-grandfather.