JACKSON, MS (Mississippi News Now) - The B1 of the 9 Fitness Festival sponsored by the Diabetes Care Group is coming soon to the Downtown Jackson YMCA.

The free festival is scheduled for 10 a.m. to noon on April 23 and will include cooking demonstrations by Julie Levanway of Fresh From the Flame catering, fitness classes by Healthways SilverSneakers Fitness Program, diabetes education and resources, and nutrition training.

Mable Daniels’ great-grandmother was a patient in the State Insane Asylum about a century ago when she was laid to rest on the asylum grounds – before her family knew she had died.

“Things were done different back then,” said Daniels, of Forest.

Apparently so; Daniels wonders if her ancestor’s remains could lie in one of the five dozen wooden coffins uncovered over the past few months beneath the former site of the vanished asylum – the campus of the University of Mississippi Medical Center.

As has happened before at UMMC, a construction crew scraped away a decades-o

When Y101's Bob and Bender needed coffee during the 2005 Mississippi Miracles Radiothon at Batson Hospital for Children, they never knew they were launching a new passion for someone who had planned to be a television broadcaster. “I wanted to be the next Melanie Christopher,” says Melanie Schade, the program administrator for Friends of Children's Hospital. It was after Schade's first television test at Belhaven University that she says she turned green – and changed her major to radio.