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Opinion

Lawmakers — decide on public defense overhaul

Mississippi’s Public Defender Task Force is gone. How the Legislature reacts next year to the task force’s final ... Read more

Opinion Columnists

Thanks? How about a list of aggravations instead?

Long-time readers (for whom I am grateful) may recall Thanksgiving columns have often been homilies on how choosing ... Read more

State/National News

Espy’s lobbying work drawing criticism, GOP ire in race for Senate

(AP) — Republicans in Mississippi’s intensifying U.S. Senate race are slamming Democrat Mike Espy’s lobbying work for an ... Read more

State/National News

20 year sentence in drunk driving death

GRETNA, La. (AP) — A 28-year-old Louisiana woman has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for causing ... Read more

Opinion

Long may our land be bright

The steady falling of rain on our roof was the first sound I heard when my eyes opened ... Read more

State/National News

Video: Sen. Hyde-Smith spoke of ‘difficult’ voting for liberals

(AP) — A Republican U.S. senator from Mississippi is shown in a new video talking about “liberal folks” ... Read more

Opinion

Runoff to take on national flavor

As it happened on Nov. 6, the pollsters on both sides were uncannily accurate in their predictions that ... Read more

State/National News

Man crashes pickup truck into Harrison County Courthouse

GULFPORT (AP) — A man has been arrested after he drove his pickup truck into a courthouse in ... Read more

State/National News

Louisiana high school teacher dies in car crash in Copiah County

WESSON (AP) — A Louisiana high school music teacher has been killed in a car crash in Mississippi. ... Read more

Galleries

In pursuit of pronghorn — Brookhaven attorney hunts the grasslands of Wyoming

T he radio in Josh Watts’ truck said 4:11 am when I got in. We had packed our ... Read more