Philadelphia News

Philadelphia and Neshoba County have asked the John C. Stennis Institute of Government at Mississippi State University to help create a comprehensive economic development plan.

Some voters in this Jasper County community will be going to the polls today to elect their representative on the East Jasper School Board.

In his first months as president, Barack Obama has taken on some big problems-health care, the economic collapse, Iraq and Afghanistan-so it's no wonder there's heated debate going on.

Hundreds of Americans, including several in Mississippi, have died after being shocked with high-voltage stun guns touted as a nonlethal way to subdue suspects.

I spoke with Carolyn Goodman twice before she died, and both times left feeling inspired and guilty.

Three high school marching bands continued the Pine Belt's tradition of exceptional music programs by placing in the top six in their divisions at the Mississippi Marching Band Championship last weekend.

Mayor Funky and Co-Mayor Squitiro came with a proclamation at to the the Centennial Freedom Fund Luncheon of the Kansas City NAACP.

It all started with a few tip offs. From there it went to a search warrant. After the Neshoba County Sheriff's Department and the Philadelphia Police Department executed the search warrant, Donnie Adkins, the Neshoba County Sheriff, said they discovered truth behind those tips.

The first African-American mayor of Philadelphia, Miss., told the NAACP of Kansas City today that hate-speech must end.

Newly elected officials serving Mississippi's small towns will travel to Natchez next month for a two-day tutorial.

Before coming to Philadelphia, Ms. Harrity held the position of Deputy Director at New York's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, where she was project director for the Museum in planning for the Frank O. Gehry-designed Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain.

The FBI is investigating statements Edgar Ray Killen allegedly made while in prison about killings beyond the Ku Klux Klan's 1964 slayings of three civil rights workers.

WASHINGTON - The excited voice on my answering machine was that of a woman who had read my Oct.

Synergetics has hired Daniel Burton of Philadelphia, Miss., as a cabling lead based out of the Starkville office.

Two exhibits are currently on display at the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art in Laurel.

Young to keynote NAACP banquet The Choctaw County NAACP will host the annual Freedom Fund Banquet October 10.

Pascagoula was the chief summer resort of the South between 1840 and 1861, according to Judge Charles E. Chidsey's retrospect on the towns of Scranton and Pascagoula.

Artistic Director Charles Tyson Jr. started his dance company "Underground DanceWorks " as a student in Temple University's dance department in 1999.

Only a decade ago, most of us here at Spark weren't eating sushi. We were either in, just out of, or about to attend college, and if you're about the same age, odds are that sushi probably wasn't on your culinary radar either.

Gov. Haley Barbour and the Mississippi State Medical Association are asking the state Supreme Court to reconsider a decision that revives a wrongful death lawsuit, saying justices are eroding tort reform.