Charleston, Mississippi

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Charleston

Fair
Temperature: 39.9 °F

Humidity: 59 %
Wind Speed: 0 mph NNE
Pressure: 30.1 "

Dew Point: 27 °F
Gusts: 6 mph E
Rain Today: 0.00 "

• House panel OKs deficit bill for higher ed
  

  The 2 percent budget cut Gov. Haley Barbour ordered for Mississippi's public universities and community colleges would be restored under a bill approved Wednesday by a House committee.

• MS--DUI Death
  

  Feliciana Quezada Gonzalez will be returned to Mexico after serving an 18-year sentence for causing a drunken-driving death.

• Illegal immigrant sentenced in DUI death case
  

  CYNTHIA BULLION Times-Tribune News Staff HERNANDO - An illegal immigrant will face deportation to his home country of Mexico upon completion of an 18-year prison sentence handed down in DeSoto County Circuit ...

• Man gets day in court for DUI death
  

  HERNANDO a ' A Walls man charged with DUI death and permanent injury is set for trial today in DeSoto County Circuit Court.

• Insurance plan, costs stay the same for '09
  

  Officials negotiate to renew the plan CHARLESTON -- Mississippi County office holders and employees will have the same health insurance next year and at the same price, Commissioners approved renewing the ...

• Names Selected For New JPS Schools
  

  The Jackson Public Schools' Board of Trustees has selected the names for three new schools that will be built with funds from the November 2006 school bond referendum.

• Early voting in '09 considered
  

  JACKSON - Allowing early voting on machines could help reduce the kinds of problems some Mississippi counties are having this year with mail-in absentee ballot envelopes, top lawmakers say.

• Tractor-trailer wrecks on Interstate 81 bridge - roanoke.com
  

  A tractor-trailer crashed Monday morning on the New River bridge on Interstate 81, leaving the cab dangling off the side of the bridge with the driver inside and causing a traffic backup that lasted for hours.

• Discovering a New World in Turncoat -- A World With Great Rivers, Virgin Lands and Diverse Culture
  

  A book from Xlibris takes you back to the time when American pioneers were moving out from the east coast and heading west looking for new lands and the opportunity to claim a homestead.

• Initiative to diversify oilseed production
  

  The Tennessee soybean producer of today could be the Tennessee oilseed producer of tomorrow if an initiative to diversify west Tennessee agriculture is successful.

• Divorce Pending as Freeman Recovers
  

  Memphis 08/07/08 Divorce Pending as Freeman Recovers Morgan Freeman's attorney says the Mississippi actor and his wife of 24 years are getting a divorce.

• A dark night
  

  Morgan Freeman is in serious condition at a Memphis hospital after being injured in a one-car accident shortly before midnight Sunday.

• Tattle: Freeman, not driving Miss Daisy, hurt in car crash
  

  SUNDAY TURNED into a dark night for Morgan Freeman when the 1997 Nissan Maxima he was driving veered off the road and flipped over and over like an Olympic gymnast.

• 'Dark Knight' Actor Morgan Freeman In Serious Condition After Car Accident
  

  Morgan Freeman Oscar-winning actor Morgan Freeman , 71, was seriously injured in a car accident late Sunday night in Mississippi, a spokesperson for the Mississippi Highway Patrol told CNN .

• Witness: Freeman said woman in crash is a friend
  

  The woman who was injured along with Morgan Freeman in a weekend car accident apparently is a friend of the Oscar-winning actor who had offered him a ride home, a crash witness says.

• Morgan Freeman & Wife Divorcing After 24 Years Of Marriage
  

  Days after he was involved in a serious car accident, a friend of "Dark Knight" star Morgan Freeman confirmed to Access Hollywood that the actor is getting a divorce.

• Morgan Freeman in "Serious Car Accident" [Movie News]
  

  The venerable Batman Begins and Oscar winning actor was involved in what authorities are calling a "serious car accident." Freeman's current condition has been listed as "serious" by a Hospital Spokeswoman, ...

• Morgan Freeman badly injured in accident
  

  SERIOUS CONDITION: Oscar-winning US actor Morgan Freeman has been hospitalised after a car accident in Mississippi.

• People in Business
  

  Bill Cossar of Charleston has been re-elected to serve his fifth term as chairman.

City Description

Charleston is a city in North Central Mississippi and one of the county seats of Tallahatchie County. The population was 2,198 at the 2000 census. Charleston is located at 34°0′27″N 90°3′14″W / 34.0075, -90.05389 (34.007514, -90.054009). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.4 square miles (3.5 km²), of which, 1.4 square miles (3.5 km²) of it is land and 0.73% is water. As of the census of 2000, there were 2,198 people, 848 households, and 569 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,612.7 people per square mile (624.0/km²). There were 933 housing units at an average density of 684.6/sq mi (264.9/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 39.26% White, 59.69% African American, 0.36% Asian, 0.05% from other races, and 0.64% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.55% of the population. There were 848 households out of which 29.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 33.5% were married couples living together, 28.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 32.8% were non-families. 31.0% of all households were made up of individuals and 15.8% had someone living alone who was 65

City Contained By:

• Tallahatchie County
• Mississippi

Timezones:

• Central Time zone

Size:

• 3.62598335447 km squared

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