Opinion
Four decades later, a cold case arrest may fill in the blank on Shondra May’s tombstone
In the lonesome isolation of the small, rural Clark Cemetery in the Pea Ridge community in northern Scott…
Columns
An appliance funeral?
I’m gearing up for a traumatic event. It’s coming. I suspect it will be sooner rather than later.…
Opinion
‘I run the country and the world’
With apologies to Art Linkletter’s “kids say the darndest things”:
Community
The Weidmann’s, the early years
Felix Weidmann, family patriarch, was a determined young man, with a dream. His determination is evidenced by an…
Columns
Nature’s song
To a four year old most things appear quite large, and a year lasts an absolute eternity. When…
Community
Meridian youth revisits old country music
Late on a Friday afternoon at Bill Gordon and Sons Barber Shop, 16-year-old Ford Scharmen is waiting his…
Opinion
Is a new era in federal natural disaster relief something Mississippi can easily navigate?
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee was President Donald Trump’s White House press secretary during his first term in office.…
Opinion
Model Utah program considered by legislature unfairly denigrated
In a rare show of near unanimity, the Mississippi House and Senate agreed to establish a task force…
Community
Let today be the day
A pleasant breeze drifts through my backyard almost making me forget that summer is near. My friend…
Community
February 1864
It was early evening when they arrived. Several Union soldiers asked for Mrs. Semmes to come to her…