Port Gibson News

The Mississippi Food Network served 60,000 people a month last year - a figure that has now risen to 100,000 - indicating hunger is a growing problem in Mississippi.

ACROSS MISSISSIPPI a ' From the hills of Northeast Mississippi to the sugar-white beaches of the Gulf Coast, residents from across the state are invited to bring their most comfortable shoes and go walking.

Preliminary autopsy results just released through officials with the Lauderdale County Sheriff's Department stated Larry Chapman, who died in a mobile home fire this weekend, died of smoke inhalation.

THE SWEET GUM is certainly not my favorite tree. However, it does retain one attribute - it is faithful in brightening up the October landscape, especially on the Natchez Trace.

Keith Benoist has a hunch the eighth-annual Phatwater Kayak Challenge will break records.

Professional shooting instructor, world renowned shooter and former national shotgun champion John Satterwhite is expanding his free classes at the Turcotte Shooting and Education Center.

Think three weeks can seem like an eternity when an object of desire is in mind? Consider the plight of avid bowhunter Thad Greer of Port Gibson.

This rosewood Victorian bed, signed Mitchell & Rammelsberg, with a carved head board, will be sold this month by Stevens Auction Co.

The Mississippi Heritage Trust recently unveiled its list of 2009's Most Endangered Historic Places throughout Mississippi.

Port Gibson police are investigating the possible drowning of a 3-year-old girl in a bath tub.

A 33-year-old Lorman man has been charged in connection with a 2008 fatal hit-and-run in Warren County, police said.

Thank goodness for people like Don Hynum. Hynum likes doing things most of us would prefer to avoid.

Kudos to Sherry Lucas and The Clarion-Ledger for the recent article on endangered places .

Energy appears to be one of the central public policy issues of this generation.

An old hotel with rich Delta music ties, an antebellum house damaged by fire and vandalism and an entire street in a town deemed 'too beautiful to burn' are just three sites with key ties to Mississippi's past, but facing a future under threat.

VICKSBURG, Miss. - Ronnie Gibson is very careful with his spelling, for his words will probably be read for hundreds of years.

A man who refused to stop for state troopers this afternoon is now in a hospital with head injuries.

Repairs to the traffic signal at U.S. Highway 61 and Mississippi Highway 18 near Port Gibson could take three to four days, transportation officials said.

A year after a plan to four-lane U.S. 61 through Port Gibson provoked a dispute between state agencies, the Mississippi Department of Transportation has yet to begin work on its proposal to alter the section of highway that passes through town as Church Street.

As a child in America's Deep South in the 1970s, Kathryn Stockett was not really aware of the racial divides around her.