Isaac Threat to Gulf, Not Just New OrleansWith its massive size and ponderous movement, a strengthening Isaac could become a punishing rain machine depending on its power, speed and where it comes ashore along the Gulf Coast.
Apple Stock Hits All-Time High, Everything Else In Waiting ModeStocks nosed higher, but trading was light, even by the slumberous standards of August. The investors who weren't on vacation were biding their time until a big speech Friday by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke in Jackson Hole, Wyo.
Beyond 'The End of History' In a fascinating article: "We, The Web Kids," Pietr Czerski, makes a statement that is as startling as it is startlingly true: "We do not use the Internet, we live on the Internet."
Lil's, UMMC and Wall StreetLillie Naylor's friends have a running joke about her jewelry business she started out of her home in 2006.
11-mile Stretch of Mississippi River ClosedNearly 100 boats and barges were waiting for passage Monday along an 11-mile stretch of the Mississippi River that has been closed due to low water levels.
Howard Ind. to Settle Discrimination SuitA Mississippi company that was the target of the largest U.S. workplace raid on undocumented workers has settled a discrimination lawsuit by four black women who claimed the company gave preferential treatment to Latinos.
The 'Dirty' South Another wrinkle for Mississippi Power Co.'s Kemper County power plant came last week as the company announced it had terminated a contract with a joint venture of KBR and W.G. Yates & Sons Construction, which was working on part of …
Fellowship, Koinonia Style On the day Lee Harper graduated from Mississippi Valley State University in 1978, the U.S. Department of the Treasury offered her a job. It was a good paying job—"Nobody made that kind of money back then," she says.