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January 12, 2012
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A Mississippi judge has temporarily blocked the release of 21 inmates who'd been given pardons or…
January 11, 2012
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) - Haley Barbour gave pardons or early release to more than 200 people in his his final…
January 10, 2012
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Outgoing Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour has pardoned at least four convicted killers who worked as inmate…
November 30, 2011
A recently released FBI report details the fact that there's been a spike in Mississippi hate crimes over the past…
November 26, 2011
PELAHATCHIE, Miss. (AP) - On a late-fall evening 46 years ago, gunfire shattered the revelry at a nameless juke joint…
November 9, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - Kansas, Tennessee and Wisconsin are among the states that passed voter identification measures this year...
November 9, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - Pro-choice advocates say the passage of the personhood amendment would have disproportionately negative implications for black women...
November 8, 2011
OPINION - Voters in the state of Mississippi, voters go to the polls today with the option to turn back…
September 23, 2011
JACKSON, Miss (AP) - The lawsuit, which seeks possession of the papers, was filed Wednesday against Howard Nelson Ballou in…
September 21, 2011
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A white Mississippi teenager has been indicted for capital murder and a hate crime on charges…
September 14, 2011
JACKSON, MISS (AP) - Barbara Anderson Young's brother was run over and killed by a pickup truck in Jackson on…
September 6, 2011
CLARKSDALE, Miss. (AP) - It's not the Heartbreak Hotel or the Ritz, and George Washington didn't sleep there...
September 2, 2011
OPINION - There is no reason to believe what Obama did in 2008 can't be replicated at the state-level for…
August 29, 2011
CHICAGO (AP) - Grammy-winning Blues musician David "Honey Boy" Edwards, believed to be the oldest surviving Delta bluesman and whose…
August 26, 2011
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - DuPree, the mayor of Mississippi's third-largest city, Hattiesburg, said he's not daunted because he has usually…
August 25, 2011
OPINION - Oddly, the blackest, poorest and most federally-dependent state in America is also the most conservative state, according to…
August 24, 2011
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Johnny DuPree, 57, won a Democratic primary runoff and advances to the Nov. 8 general election…
August 19, 2011
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) - 'The Help' is based on relationships between white families in Mississippi and the black women who…
August 19, 2011
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi authorities have upgraded a murder charge to capital murder for a white teenager accused of…
August 18, 2011
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) - Dunn Lampton, a former U.S. attorney in Mississippi who prosecuted a high-profile cold case from the…