Jackson's acting mayor plans to meet Wednesday with city department heads.Jackson City Councilman Charles Tillman was sworn in Tuesday as acting mayor, hours after Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba passed ...

Jackson has had two acting mayors since 2009: Dr. Leslie McLemore, who served the remaining three months of the late Mayor Frank Melton’s term, and Charles Tillman, who served following the ...

The federally indicted mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, is trailing his opponent in the city’s Democratic primary runoff. Unofficial vote totals show state Sen. John Horhn leading two-term Mayor ...