Mississippi Government News

Florida Highway Patrol officials say they have arrested an inmate who escaped from a Mississippi state work camp.

Ernie Flint, an agronomist at the Mississippi State University Extension Service, says many of the state's farmers are running about month behind but still have time to catch up before it's too late to plant crops.

Authorities have resumed the search for two young brothers who were passengers in an all-terrain vehicle that overturned in a Mississippi creek.

A lawyer who was active in a black nationalist group decades ago is running for mayor of Mississippi's capital city.

Founder Thomas Jefferson warned, "Experience hath shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny." Medicaid must be reauthorized this year.

The Mississippi Supreme Court has granted a motion from St. Dominic Health Systems to dismiss its appeal of a judge's order that it did not have a binding contract to buy an outpatient surgery clinic in Canton.

President Barack Obama has nominated Jackson attorney Debra M. Brown to be a U.S. District judge for northern Mississippi.

In Mississippi, where the overall unemployment rate was 8.7 percent in the fourth quarter of 2012 , African American families continue to bear the brunt of that economic pain.

MADISON - All American Check Cashing announced today the completion of the acquisition of 10 payday loan retail stores today throughout Mississippi.

The national board of the NAACP is meeting in Mississippi's capital city for the first time in 30 years.

Founder Thomas Jefferson warned "Experience hath shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny." Medicaid must be reauthorized this year.

Mississippi's only abortion clinic can't meet the mandates of a 2012 state law, and the governor wants to shut it down.

On Fox Business Network last night, former Mississippi governor Haley Barbour joked about the now-popular comparison between the use of the Internal Revenue Service under the Nixon and Obama administrations: "At least in the Nixon administration, using the word 'patrioitic' did not put you on the enemies list." Over the last week, the IRS has ... (more)

The land now known as the State of Tennessee has been home to numerous American Indian peoples the past several thousand years.

This one hour radio special is the first in a series of "at-large" conversations presently categorized under the old "Bat Segundo" label.

Mississippi legislative Democrats say they're working on proposals to keep Medicaid alive and funded in the budget year that starts July 1. They say they're doing this in case Republican Gov.

Sen. Thad Cochran has introduced a series of amendments intended to ensure the safety of Mississippians from flooding or storm surge threats that might result from a new flood control proposal for Louisiana.

It appears that Dan is the highest paid state employee for our fine state, but that's based on a few assumptions.

WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran has introduced bipartisan legislation to reauthorize the program that helps preserve historic battlegrounds in the United States, including battlefields in Mississippi.

We, as a state, have always had a bad reputation. We have been the poorest, fattest, most unhealthy, least educated, etc.