Analysis: GOP Hopes Obama is Key to Senate ControlStruggling to preserve their Senate majority, Democrats are attacking Republicans over Medicare and Social Security in Louisiana, spending cuts in Arkansas, off-shore jobs in New Hampshire and women's issues in Colorado.
Johnathan PerkinsThanks to the Lady Arrows' dominance, head coach Johnathan Perkins won the 2014 National Federation of State High School Associations' award for girls' track and field, and it made him eligible for the NFSH regional award.
Massive Cheating Scandal at UNC Involved AthletesBogus classes and automatic A's and B's are at the heart of a cheating scandal at the University of North Carolina that lasted nearly two decades, encompassing about 3,100 students—nearly half of them athletes.
Health Officials say Ebola Low-Risk in Miss.State health officials say they are keeping Mississippi hospitals and medical facilities up-to-date on Ebola identification and treatment.
Bad Calls and Dan MullenThis past weekend showed me that it is becoming nearly impossible to play pass defense. For example, West Virginia upset Baylor thanks to a few bad pass interference calls. The Detroit Lions used a weak—if it even really happened—pass interference …
JFP College Football Top 25: Week 8People used to say that the road to the national championship goes through Florida. This year, the road to the title goes through Mississippi.
The SlateLast weekend, the Florida State Seminoles and the Detroit Lions got favorable calls from the officials so they could beat the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the New Orleans Saints.
HanaLena: Hardworking WomenSisters Hannah and Caroline Melby of the country-bluegrass duo HanaLena (formerly known as Nash Street) are two of the busiest young performers from Mississippi.
Jarekus Singleton: A Story to TellAlligator Records artist Jarekus Singleton wouldn't trade anything for his life's journey, as it provided him with the material for his new album, "Refuse to Lose," which remained on the Billboard Blues Album chart for three weeks, peaking at No. …
Stories of the SouthSince 1989, the Eudora Welty Writer's Symposium has hosted southern authors at the Mississippi University for Women in Columbus. The symposium provides a platform for authors specializing in southern fiction or scholarship about the South to voice their work, along …
My Pet SourdoughThere is a type of bread that lends itself well to gluten intolerance and celiac disease and isn't made with strange ingredients: Sourdough.
Pro-Cochran PAC Sheds Light on GOP PrimaryRecent federal-campaign finance reports shed new light into spending that took place in the final days of the grueling Republican primary in June.
Federal Candidates on the Local BallotTravis Childers, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, served the U.S. House of Representatives for the 1st Congressional District from 2008 to 2011.