WASHINGTON — Congress returned to Capitol Hill this week facinga huge agenda with no easy solutions.First, Congress has to figure outhow to postpone an end-of-the-monthdeadline that would double health insurance costs for 24 million workingAmericans. It also needs to approveannual spending on military construction; consider sanctions on Russia; andregulate “name, image, and likeness”payments in college sports.And there are just 12 …

Star witness killed in Hattiesburg wreckbound for Louisiana Quinton Tellis trialHATTIESBURG — Retired Brigadier GeneralPaul Rowlett was killed Saturday in a car crash in Hattiesburg on his way to Monroe, Louisiana, to tes-tify as an expert witness in the Quinton Tellis mur-der trial. The accident occurred at Hwy 98 and Ralston Road in Forrest County when another vehicle al-legedly ran …

I’ve been out of school for so long it’s hard to remember things I learned at Goldonna High School and Northwestern State. The years have erased or toned down much of the “book learning” I was exposed to way back then.  There is one thing, however, that as a writer, I keep at the forefront of my mind and that’s …