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The Food Truck Mash-up on Saturday, Sept. 28, at Lakeshore Park in Brandon will feature …

Eli Childers has created chalk art for businesses and events such as Vibe Fest in …

Mississippi Sex Traffickers Target Children, Homeless LGBT Kids

Young people in Mississippi are among the most vulnerable targets and least visible victims of trafficking, the executive director of Mississippians Against Human Trafficking said.

Lindsey Simmons, executive director of Mississippians Against Human Trafficking, delivers a presentation on trafficking during …

Ward 2 Councilman Melvin Priester Jr. said health care is a big cost driver for …

Reducing City's Health-Care Costs Is Priority for Jackson City Council

Rising health-care costs prompted the Jackson City Council to focus on ways it can help at its Aug. 22 budget meeting.

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Kenneth Vance

Kenneth Vance acknowledges the value of serving others. As an outreach worker for Grace House, a nonprofit organization that focuses on housing those in need, he is able to do just that.

The national governors' groups for both major parties are treating this (election) like a competitive …

Analysis: Campaign Ads Bring Cute Kids and Scary Politicos

Mississippians could get a reprieve from political advertising now that the rush of the party primaries is over. Starting in about mid-October, though, people who are easily annoyed by political ads will have to keep their TV remotes handy.

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Joshua K. Love sits in the living room of his home in Greenwood, Miss., Saturday, …

Survivors Demand US Investigation of Mississippi Abuse Deals

Catholic sex abuse survivors in Mississippi and Wisconsin on Thursday demanded that federal authorities investigate allegations from three black Mississippi men who say they were molested by Franciscan friars during the mid-1990s, when they were as young as 9 years old.

Thursday's ruling overturning the verdict was a formality after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the …

State Court Sends Black Man's Disputed Murder Case Back

The Mississippi Supreme Court is sending the case of a man tried six times for murder back to a local court after the U.S. Supreme Court found racial bias in jury selection.

Daisey Martinez, left, a community organizer working to help families the recent Mississippi ICE raids …

ICE Raids 'Fire From Our Hellish Past,' Rights Leader Says in Canton

Daisy Martinez fought back tears as she told an audience at a Mississippi church, including Rev. William Barber of the Poor People's Campaign, about her mother Maria, an undocumented immigrant from El Salvador who could be forced to leave the country and not allowed to return.