Mississippi Government News

As North Mississippians take to the roads for Memorial Day Weekend, law enforcement will have an increased patrol and DUI enforcement presence.

LUCEDALE, Miss.--Authorities said 20-year-old Brandon Pierce of Mississippi was arrested on a charge of animal cruelty after he set his 5-year-old Chihuahua mix, Socks, aflame, reported CBS affiliate WJTV .

Alabama trailed 3-0 early in the elimination game, but rallied for two runs in the fourth, one in the fifth and two more in the sixth to take a 5-3 lead.

The Supreme Court won't order new legislative elections in Mississippi over complaints about the timing of the state's redistricting.

One week after the bombshell story broke that the tax agency has been targeting conservative groups with extra, delay-lengthening scrutiny over their applications for tax-exempt status during the 2011-12 election cycle, we find out that the details were known at the highest levels of the White House .

The St. Louis Rams added another offensive tackle this week, a big one. The team signed Terrell Brown of Mississippi, who measures a towering 6'10, 388 pounds.

As long as religious bullies are allowed to spew their intolerance, hatred and prejudice, Mississippi will be last in everything good and first in everything bad.

Rep. Michael McCaul , the House Homeland Security Committee chairman, predicted Monday night that the fallout from Benghazi will haunt Hillary Clinton if she runs for president.

A federal appeals panel has upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by a group of Mississippi Gulf Coast residents and landowners who alleged that emissions by energy companies contributed to global warming, which intensified Hurricane Katrina, which, in turn, damaged their property.

The Supreme Court won't order new legislative elections in Mississippi over complaints about the timing of the state's redistricting.

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.