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Rumors about candidates for jobs in a possible Romney administration are flying fast and furious. One such rumor involves Mississippi’s former Governor Haley Barbour.

Former Governor Haley Barbour is being honor for attracting thousands of manufacturing jobs to MS, including Toyota and its suppliers. Yesterday, the University of Mississippi named its Center for Manufacturing Excellence after the 63^rd governor.

A program designed to improve pre-K education in the state will end without state support.

Bullying is about an imbalance of power. Bullying includes making threats, spreading rumors, physical or verbal attacks, or excluding someone from a group on purpose.

Fingerprint scanning may soon be required for some parents when dropping off and picking up their children from daycare.

A new study published in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology reports with free birth control, six of 1,000 teenage girls gave birth, compared to the national rate of 34 births per 1,000. The teen birth rate in Mississippi is 55 girls per 1,000. The study was done in St. Louis.

A former Deputy U.S. Marshal says Mississippi State Police is to blame for the escalating violence on the Ole Miss campus 50 years ago.

Civil rights activist and entertainer Harry Belafonte is reflecting on the success of the Civil Rights movement

The U.S. Marshalls sent in 1962 to ensure the safety of Ole Miss’s first black student are recounting their days of protecting James Meredith.

Oktibbeha County schools are now under a conservator.

Today marks the day – exactly 50 years ago – that James Meredith became the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi, accompanied by a night of deadly riots.

The University of Mississippi now has a Freedom Trail marker near the Lyceum that commemorates the events sourrounding the enrollment of its first black student in 1962.

Mississippi has the highest teen pregnancy rate in the nation, and leaders are turning to community involvement to solve the problem.

United States Attorney General Eric Holder, the first African American to hold this job, is paying tribute to James Meredith, the first black student to enroll at the University of Mississippi 50 years ago.

Governor Phil Bryant continues his push for charter schools in Mississippi.