10-digit phone dialing coming to northern Mississippi

April 7, 2021 GMT

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Ten-digit dialing is coming to northern Mississippi this year.

Customers in the 662 area code will have to start dialing that code along with the seven-digit phone number to complete local calls...

Mississippi trial delayed for friar accused of sex abuse

February 7, 2021 GMT

GREENWOOD, Miss. (AP) — A trial has been postponed until April for a former Franciscan friar accused of molesting students in the 1990s at a Catholic school in Mississippi...

Former Catholic brother returned to face Mississippi charges

By MICHAEL REZENDESSeptember 3, 2020 GMT

A former Catholic brother has been extradited from his home state of Wisconsin to Mississippi, where he faces sexual battery charges in a case involving two impoverished Black boys who say they were pressured as men into accepting paltry payouts to settle their abuse claims...

Stinky shoppers unoffended after Mississippi store bans them

September 14, 2019 GMT

GREENWOOD, Miss. (AP) — You stink, stay out!

That's the message from one Mississippi Delta convenience store to workers at a neighboring soybean oil mill...

Mississippi man says he still struggles after clergy abuse

By MAYE-E WONG and MICHAEL REZENDESSeptember 3, 2019 GMT

In Mississippi Delta, Catholic abuse cases settled on cheap

By MICHAEL REZENDESAugust 27, 2019 GMT

In Mississippi Delta, Catholic abuse cases settled on cheap

By MICHAEL REZENDESAugust 27, 2019 GMT

GREENWOOD, Mississippi (AP) — A famed Catholic religious order settled sex abuse cases in recent months by secretly paying two black Mississippi men $15,000 each and requiring them to keep silent about their claims, The Associated Press has found...

Ancestry discovery: old family picture on museum commercial

By GERARD?EDIC, The Greenwood CommonwealthJune 8, 2019 GMT

GREENWOOD, Miss. (AP) — For years Anjuan Brown, a Leflore County supervisor, kept a picture of his great-great-great-grandfather, Joshua Tarbutton, in his Bible without knowing the history of the man within the antique, slightly crumpled photo...