Port Gibson News

Declining revenue will result in changes to Mississippi higher education, according to the governor and state education officials.

The Alcorn State University student, who is now charged with murder, was released late Friday afternoon on a $35,000 bond in Claiborne County.

'Aunt Pattie planted these flowers,' Josephine Alexander said as she gave a freshly picked bouquet, still wet with the morning dew, to Anne Newell some years ago.

NATCHEZ a ' An Alcorn State University student charged with murder was released from the Claiborne County jail on $35,000 bond Friday.

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.