After a successful 30 years of coaching in high school football, James Knox remains the longest serving and head coach in Vicksburg High School history. Before...
Warren County is known for having its share of longtime serving sheriffs in the past, but today VDN remembers Peter Crosby, the first African-American to be...
Thirty-five years ago in a town called Cape Canaveral, in the state of Florida, inside a 4.4 million-pound launchpad assembly, inside a space shuttle, inside a...
When I used to take trips, usually to Virginia, Georgia or the Carolinas, I was looking for dead relatives, for genealogy has always fascinated me. On...
It’s the tidbits of history that have always intrigued me, the little known instances that didn’t change the overall story and that are usually left out...
The scene was reminiscent of one that would have appeared in “Gone with the Wind.” Union soldiers invaded a home, had words with the owner, speaking...
The modest home of slain civil-rights leader Medgar Evers was named a national monument Thursday. The house, located at 2332 Margaret W. Alexander Drive in Jackson,...
Former Rosa A. Temple High School basketball coach Levern McClelland remains one of the best high school basketball coaches to ever come through the City of...
There’s a small white stone in the Dockery family graveyard at Lamartine in Columbia County, Arkansas, with the simple inscription “Truce” on it, and therein lies...
Verse by great poets has been written in honor of a louse — and possibly other critters — but it was a Vicksburg attorney who delivered...
