Without the dispute over Jones leaving Ole Miss to distract them, more members of the general public might have noticed the train wreck on the board that coordinates the state’s 15 community and junior colleges.

Craftsmen recently coated the statue with a fresh layer of 23-and-¾ karat gold leaf. That's about $10,000 worth of material manufactured in Italy especially for this project.

Destinations are connected by the so-called "Gold Record Road," which is made up of Interstate 40 from Nashville to Memphis, Highway 61 from Memphis to New Orleans, and the Natchez Trace Parkway from Nashville to Natchez, Mississippi.

The Mississippi Department of Corrections plans to end the Joint State County Work Programs beginning Aug. 1.

A state senator who wants to take Alabama out of the marriage license business says he’s not targeting same-sex couples but trying to remove government from the process.