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My dear departed friend Gale Denley said years ago of his first visit to the Neshoba County Fair: 'It's a lot like what I always imagined Hell would be - it's hot, it's dusty and all my friends are there.' Gale has graduated to the Fair Eternal, but the political speaking he loved so much will continue in the fair's grand tradition.

After a change of attorneys and a refiling of briefs, Mississippi death row inmate Howard Dean Goodin will argue before state's highest court that he is mentally disabled and should not be put to death.

The Mississippi Department of Health says the state's total number of swine flu cases is 58.

Reber and Lula Bell Rivers of Union announce the engagement of their daughter, Elizabeth Diane Rivers, to John Douglas 'J.D.' Backstrom Jr., son of Doug and Rebecca Backstrom of Hattiesburg.

Monday the United States will celebrate Memorial Day, which was first observed in 1868 by placing flowers on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery.

If Jackson voters had the chance on June 2, a majority say they would cast ballots in favor of a proposed 1 percent sales tax increase, according to a Clarion-Ledger poll.

The Mississippi Sickle Cell Foundation will have a Put a Spring in Your Step for Sickle Cell 5K walk-a-thon and one-mile fun run at 8 a.m. Saturday at the Norman C. Nelson Student Union on the University of Mississippi Medical Center campus.

The 146th anniversary of the battle will be commemorated May 16 with re-enactments, book-signings, a trek along the historic Jackson Road and the unveiling of a memorial marker.

Slideshow from Day One of the Clarkdale Spring Fling fast pitch tournament at Northeast Park.

We will all die one day. Of that we are sure. One of the goals in this life is to be prepared for the afterlife.

The marker stops there in describing the man whose name adorns parks and college campuses across the South, a Confederate raider and slave trader whose troops massacred black Union soldiers and who served as ...

Organizers of a symposium to honor the late Arthur J. Kaul, longtime professor of journalism at the University of Southern Mississippi, want the event to be a permanent tribute to the legacy he left in ...

CONCENTRATE ON THIS PHRASE: 'To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.' When God takes something from your grasp, He's not punishing you, but merely opening your hands to receive ...

They don't celebrate July 4 in Vicksburg. They haven't since 1863 when on that day Confederate General John C. Pemberton surrendered the city after a six-week siege orchestrated by Union General Ulysses S. ...

Newton, a small community in East Mississippi, will have a new weekly newspaper beginning Wednesday.

Looking at the photo on the front page of a recent Leader Call - as Pres. John Kennedy delivered his State of the Union address in 1963 - brought back memories of a few of the politicians of that era.

Let me preface my statements with the following disclosures: Yes, I live in the Union Public Schools District.

A team of assessors from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies Inc.

BY BOBBY HARRISON Daily Journal Jackson Bureau JACKSON - The opening day of the 2009 session of the Mississippi Legislature turned into a combination history lesson and pep talk.

Mt. Zion 1st Baptist Federal Credit Union is planning to change its name and logo after more than four decades.