Mississippi Government News

Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami said Sunday morning that the watch does not include New Orleans and stretches from Grand Isle, La., to the Mississippi- Alabama state line.

State officials in the executive and legislative branches are ratcheting down state budget expectations but disagree how far down to take them.

In the Republican Party's weekly radio address, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said Democrats should scrap their ambitious legislation and concentrate ...

The University of Mississippi will enforce a rule bars tailgaters from putting up tents before 6 p.m. on Fridays.

The Internal Revenue Service is looking for Mississippi and Louisiana taxpayers who are due to receive a combined $2.39 million in the form of 2,445 refund checks that were returned to the IRS by the U.S. Postal Service due to mailing address errors.

Bob Riley's Cabinet says Riley received campaign contributions in 2002 from Mississippi Indians who operate casinos.

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour says he wants more power to cut state spending when times are tough.

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For those keeping score, the knock-down, drag-out battle between the powers that be at the state Capitol during the 2010 session of the Legislature won't be about Medicaid funding as it was in 2009, at least not directly.

A state Department of Education spokesman says Tom Burnham, who served as Mississippi's superintendent of education in the mid-1990s, has been chosen to return to the job.

Police in Conway say two containers of feminine hygiene products stolen from a distribution center in Conway have been found in Florida and Mississippi.

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In this Sept. 17, 2009 file photo Sen. Mike Johanns, R-Neb., second from left, talks about health care reform on Capitol Hill in Washington with, from left, Sen.

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY : Rush Limbaugh, conservative radio talk show host.

La'Verne Edney is going from A to Z in the state bar roll looking for attorneys willing to represent poor people in need of civil legal services.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry is getting the endorsement of a fellow Republican governor, Haley Barbour of Mississippi.

From the outside looking in, Mississippi appears to be evolving more slowly than other states in the area of race relations.

Share + Oct 28, 2009 12:29 pm US/Central JACKSON, Miss. Seven people associated with a medical clinic have been indicted for alleged Medicaid and Medicare fraud and federal authorities seized millions of dollars in cash and property in Mississippi and Texas , court records said.

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Gov. Haley Barbour today announced the appointment of Hinds County Attorney Malcolm Harrison to serve out the term of former Hinds County Circuit Judge Bobby DeLaughter.