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Jackson State football coach Deion Sanders will donate half of his salary to help complete the program's football facility renovations, he announced on Instagram.
The Clarion Ledger's brilliant headline summed up the absurdity of our campaign finance laws, as what Palazzo is doing is legal.
Ask Rufus: A Lost Choctaw Silver Mine? The only old silver treasure I have heard of being found around Columbus are occasional Spanish or Mexican silver reales. These are the old “pieces of Eight” that were legal tender in the U.S. until 1859. They are the origin of 2 bits, 4 bits, 6 bits a dollar, 1 bit being worth 12 1/2 cents. Courtesy photo Three years ago I wrote a column about a lost Choctaw silver mine in the Columbus or Macon area. I told the story always assuming if there was any truth at all to the story it would have just been a hidden stash of silver and no way a silver min...
BBC News Published image captionWeatherly released nearly a dozen studio albums US country singer-songwriter Jim Weatherly, best known for writing 1970s hit Midnight Train to Georgia, has died aged 77. Weatherly passed away at his home near Nashville, Tennessee, on Wednesday. Music publisher and friend Charlie Monk said the family attributed his death to natural causes. Singer Gladys Knight, who had a number one hit with Midnight Train to Georgia with her backing group The Pips, said he had been "a sweetheart". Born in Mississippi in 1943, Weatherly released nearly a dozen studio albums durin...
news Midnight Train to Georgia songwriter dies aged 77 US country singer-songwriter Jim Weatherly, best known for writing 1970s hit Midnight Train to Georgia, has died aged 77, his family say. Weatherly passed away at his home near Nashville, Tennessee, on Wednesday. Music publisher and friend Charlie Monk said the family attributed his death to natural causes, the Tennessean website reports. Weatherly released nearly a dozen studio albums during his five-decade career. In his student years, the singer was a gifted quarterback for the University of Mississippi's American football team. But la...