2015/05/18 – Wingfield High School’s Principal Willie Killins’ words are heartbreaking. Describing the students whom he recruits into his in-school leadership program, Killin told The Clarion Ledger on May 7, “These aren’t bad kids. They’re usually adolescents facing adult problems — …..
2015/05/15 – Javarcia Ivory has always been solution-oriented. The 18-year-old Clinton student preparing to attend Stanford University on a full ride in the fall looks for solutions on both the small and large scale. Ivory fought a lifetime battle with speech …..
2015/05/15 – Mississippi has screened 5,578 TANF applicants for drug use since August. Only eight (0.14 percent) have tested positive. Mississippi does not offer many lifelines to families who fall onto hard times. One of the few is Temporary Assistance for …..
2015/05/14 – WASHINGTON – Federal health officials turned to places such as Jackson and Belzoni when they sought ideas for educating people on how to take advantage of the health insurance they had just signed up for under the Affordable Care Act. …..
2015/05/14 – Jackson Police Commander Tyree Jones has been suspended without pay for racial and religious slurs as well as comments regarding the female anatomy made on his social media page. JPD Chief Lee Vance said he became aware of the comments …..
