January News

Mississippi's attorney general says he still considers Google's responses to allegations that it's not doing enough to prevent illegal online sales of drugs without prescriptions and says he's sending out subpoenas for company documents to further his investigation.

An analysis by the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute at the State University of New York-Albany shows that the first quarter of 2013 saw state tax collections increase dramatically with strong growth in personal income tax collections -- the strongest growth since the start of the last recession.

In the early 1700s, France sent thousands of colonists and slaves to Louisiana in the belief that tobacco would refill a treasury drained by wars.

Whereas, on the twenty-second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit: "That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons ... (more)

That dream continued until an Army captain's land grab triggered a massacre by Natchez Indians, who burned the plantations, said Erin M. Greenwald, curator of an exhibit about the colony's tobacco history.

Mississippi, already burdened with historically high poverty and low average household income, continues to falter in paying off its debt in a timely manner, a report states.

President Barack Obama kisses Myrlie Evers-Williams, the widow of Medgar Evers before being sworn-in for a second term as the President of the United States by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts during his public inauguration ceremony at the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. on January 21, 2013.

The Bolivar County Board of Supervisors announced earlier this month it received a grant from the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality to boost cleanup efforts throughout the county.

Gov. George Wallace blocks the door at the University of Alabama to keep two black students from enrolling on June 11, 1963.

This week, Evers-Williams will hold events to remember her husband's work as the first Mississippi field secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Associated Press reports .

Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, shown in January talking about his new book, on Monday declined to comment on the environmental impact of Sean Parker's multimillion-dollar coastal wedding.

The life of U.S. Navy WWII veteran Paul Delcambre Sr. began on a farm and ended on a farm.

The federal government on Monday belatedly sent $67 million in disaster relief to 15 states, with the biggest share going to Colorado to help recovery from last year's devastating wildfires.

The city of Natchez is planning to restore the historic tollbooth colonnade with funding from the Mississippi Department of Transportation.

Most people probably don't know how big reticulated pythons and Gaboon vipers really are.

Slain civil rights activist Medgar Evers' wife, Myrlie Evers, was to present the state conference's Emma Elzy Award on Sunday to ministers Keith Tonkel and Maxie Dunnam on behalf of all 28 who signed the statement published in January 1963.

Former Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole doesn't believe any of the GOP stars from Eisenhower to Nixon, or even Reagan, could win a Republican primary campaign in today's party.

Model and reality TV actress Katherine Webb says she and the University of Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron are still dating, but they're not engaged.

With seven of nine siblings being active-duty airmen stationed all over the world, it's hard to organize a reunion.

After cycling across the country in 17 days, Joe Avolis of New Bern can look back with memories of crossing the Arizona desert and hill country in Alabama and Mississippi, following storms that produced tornados in Oklahoma and accomplishing something not many people would even attempt.