2014/12/22 – PARCHMAN — Craggy-faced and ornery, Edgar Ray Killen bears the signs of his 89 years. His hands are still scarred and rough from decades in the east Mississippi sawmills. He has a muscular build even as he maneuvers …..
2014/12/18 – The Mississippi Board of Education is abandoning incremental goals in favor of big ones, according to a strategic plan released Thursday. The previous goal of raising the state’s graduation rate to 83 percent? Now officials want every student to …..
2014/12/18 – A state board has rejected a contract that would have bought tests for Mississippi students with intellectual disabilities. The Personal Service Contract Review Board voted Tuesday to reject the $1 million-a-year pact with the University of Kansas. It said …..
2014/12/17 – The Mississippi Legislature does not officially convene until January, but the two parties are already wrangling over how to spend the state’s money. With Republicans controlling both houses and the Governor’s Mansion, not a lot of compromise is necessary …..
2014/12/17 – William Skinner, who oversees the Hinds County Youth Court, is mad—again. Skinner recently fired off a letter to a federal judge in Jackson saying that Hinds County officials are trying to usurp his authority over the detention and release …..
