Mississippi News

A Mississippi company that was the target of the largest U.S. workplace raid on illegal immigrants has reached a tentative settlement agreement in a discrimination lawsuit by four black women who claimed the company gave preferential treatment to Latinos, federal court records said.

An Arkansas man is facing charges in Mississippi after police say he shot a casino slot machine after complaining that it took his money.

Although I don't share Joel Kotkin's view that Republicans have "Medievalist views" about society, I am fascinated with a phenomenon Kotkin wrote about earlier this month: regions with the largest percentages of childless women are overwhelmingly likely to vote Democratic.

Too often, the keepers of public information in Mississippi use the fee provision in the Open Records Act to defy the intent of the act.

With an cold and very dry air mass in place combined with increasing moisture will likely lead to minor accumulations of sleet and snow across parts of the state.

Laurel High School students have won Mississippi's top high school culinary honor.

The chorus is, "Go Mississippi, keep rolling along. Go Mississippi, you cannot go wrong.

She lives in Canton, works as an anesthesia technician, and is a single mother to Will, a 5th grader in Canton public schools.

I'm a seventh generation Mississippian. I grew up on our family farm, a truck crop and livestock operation in the southeast corner of Jones County.

When Northrop Grumman opened its state-of-the-art Unmanned Systems Center here in 2006, South Mississippi got a foot in the door of a dynamic industry expected to top $94 billion in sales in the next 10 years.

State Supreme Court justices are fully engaged in an intense debate over a first-of-its-kind legal question in Mississippi: does the governor have an absolute right to issue pardons without following all constitutional requirements and are those actions exempt from review by the courts? Former Republican governor Haley Barbour, along with lawyers ... (more)

Jonathon Wheaton of Vicksburg and Eddie Cousin of Pulaski listen to Don Sloan with Bowhead Science and Technology during a Veterans Job and Education Fair at the G.V. "Sonny" Montgomery VA Medical Center earlier this month.

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus says the commissioning for the submarine USS Mississippi will be in Pascagoula rather than Gulfport.

After Jackie Robinson broke the color line in 1947, it took only two years for a black Mississippian to reach the major leagues: Jonestown native Luke Easter made it with the Cleveland Indians in 1949.

One of the convicts set free in Mississippi shot Randy Walker through the head and killed his friend.

Gov. Phil Bryant's plan to cut state funding for public libraries leaves the institutions facing tough decisions at a time when patronage has reached an all-time high.

Miss. Supreme Court hears pardons case: The Mississippi Supreme Court listens to arguments on whether pardons issued by former Gov.

The Tennessee Valley Authority expects to pay about $7 million more in fees in lieu of taxes to the state of Mississippi in fiscal year 2012 versus the past fiscal year.

Some Democrats are warning that a proposal to change the Mississippi Legislature's rules could handcuff their ability to seek more money for education.

As the controversy over pardons was making its way through courtrooms folks at the Mississippi College School of Law were gauging the political temperature of voters from across the state on the pardon process.