Mississippi News

Areas of Mississippi are safer with 232 violent offenders off the street after a monthlong fugitive sweep known as Operation FALCON 2009, law enforcement officials said Thursday.

An extended battle over the state budget cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of additional dollars as lawmakers and Gov.

Authorities have identified two teenage brothers killed in a one-car crash in Jackson.

Mississippi Public Service Commission chairman Lynn Posey says it would cost the state less than $250,000 a year if the PSC were allowed to hire three new staff members.

Gov. Haley Barbour this morning issued a formal call for a third special session of the Legislature.

When Robbie Ward came back here six years ago, he thought the inability to buy alcohol on Sundays made the city look backward.

The Foundation for Mississippi History aims to raise $10 million in five years toward construction of the Museum of Mississippi History.

The Port of Gulfport will begin work Thursday on a multimillion expansion that officials say will increase its capacity to handle more and bigger ships.

One of the biggest benefits to growing peanuts in Mississippi has been the relative lack of disease pressure compared to other more established growing regions of the Southeast.

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour and members of the Legislature have grown accustomed to government by special session, but taxpayers are sick of it.

Recovery from the recession will be slow for Mississippi and it could be another five years before employment levels return to where they were in 2000, before the last financial downturn, a state economist says.

Mississippi's still king of cellulite, but an ominous tide is rolling toward the Medicare doctors in neighboring Alabama: obese baby boomers.

The man charged with killing a University of Mississippi track star has pleaded guilty to using a credit card owned by Rodney Lockhart after his death.

Governor Haley Barbour has said it so often during his first 5-1/2 years in office that he probably drawls it in his sleep: 'I'm against raising anybody's taxes.' This year, the Republican signed three significant tax bills into law, and he didn't do so grudgingly.

The extended battle over the state budget cost taxpayers additional dollars as lawmakers and Gov.

Mississippi farmers who saw vital planting time washed away by persistent spring showers are now in desperate need of rain as heat and abnormally dry conditions threaten to reduce grain crop yields significantly.

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour has signed legislation to help control insurance costs for coastal property owners.

My dear departed friend Gale Denley said years ago of his first visit to the Neshoba County Fair: 'It's a lot like what I always imagined Hell would be - it's hot, it's dusty and all my friends are there.' Gale has graduated to the Fair Eternal, but the political speaking he loved so much will continue in the fair's grand tradition.

BAY ST. LOUIS - A large construction project that's been catching the notice of motorists on Interstate 10 in Hancock County will be a futuristic new truck inspection and weigh station.

Thousands of Mississippians will gather with friends and family over the July Fourth holiday to celebrate our great nation's independence.