2015/04/23 – Gov. Phil Bryant on Thursday vetoed an “anti-Common Core” bill passed by the Legislature, saying it doesn’t guarantee the national education standards won’t be used in Mississippi schools. “I remain firmly committed to ending Common Core in Mississippi,” Republican Bryant …..
2015/04/23 – The Mississippi Department of Education issued the first of what it says will be many charges against Clarksdale Municipal School District educators for cheating on the 2012-13 statewide assessments. At a press conference Thursday in Jackson, state Superintendent Carey Wright …..
2015/04/23 – John Louis Blalack was scheduled to be sentenced today in the hate crimes investigation stemming from the death of James Craig Anderson. Blalack’s sentencing is now set for April 30. Blalack, 20, pleaded guilty in January to two counts …..
2015/04/24 – A Hattiesburg man has filed a lawsuit against the city of Hattiesburg alleging that police officers broke his neck. According to the lawsuit, police paralyzed Jordan Chase Borgognoni after “placing him in handcuffs by slamming him face first into …..
2015/04/23 – The elderly Tulsa reserve deputy charged with manslaughter went on national television recently and dropped a bombshell. The thing is, no one noticed it was a bombshell at the time. In an interview with Matt Lauer on the Today show, 73-year-old Robert Bates apologized …..
