January News

Thousands of vacant jobs in state government will be frozen. State employees won't get raises.

The Southeast Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences will honor seven television professionals who have worked a quarter century or more in the industry on Friday evening, January 30, ...

A coalition of experts in hurricanes, earthquakes and other natural disasters warned on Tuesday that the U.S. would experience another major disaster and called on the incoming Congress to quickly approve ...

Hinds County needs to add almost $1 million to the Sheriff's Department payroll to hire 58 workers at the penal farm under construction in Raymond.

The Story So Far Tuesday, Nov 25, 2008 10:24AM Blake Shelton in the Western States, Air Supply in casinos, Kathy Mattea in 2009 and The Rosebuds on the East Coast! Kathy Mattea sketches a United Kingdom tour, ...

About 200 soldiers from the Virginia National Guard are heading to Mississippi to begin their eventual deployment to Afghanistan.

As Republicans nationwide try to rebound from recent election losses, a key leader in the Mississippi GOP is rejecting suggestions the party tweak its conservative views to attract more voters.

Rich Wittish Thanksgiving Day is upon us once again, and it's a time for appreciating a variety of blessings, including, for me, the opportunity - via Island Hopping - to meet and talk with islanders who are ...

Jerry Thomas wondered why electricity prices weren't going down as natural gas costs decreased.

Learn about a significant but little-known Tennessean at the next "Between the Lines: Reading About the Civil War" book discussion group, a free and open activity that will meet four Thursdays in January 2009.

Corrections officials have sent the names of 2,900 nonviolent inmates to the state Parole Board for parole consideration.

The rumors have been circulating for months that the Borgata Winter Open would not be participating in the second half of the World Poker Tour's Season VII schedule.

Corrections officials have sent the names of 2,900 nonviolent inmates to the state Parole Board for parole consideration.

The public has heard 'The sky is falling!' so many times over Medicaid, it could very well tune it out, but a showdown really is looming in January.

A new team of AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps members has joined forces until late January with Habitat for Humanity, Bay Waveland Chapter, to rebuild homes destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.

By Jennifer Jacob Brown jjacob@themeridianstar.com Doorknobs in neighborhoods north and east of what was once Meridian's city limits will not go naked today.

There is no good time for utility bills to rise. But as the national economy sinks, we can't think of a worse possible time to have pay more for electricity.

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When Congress re-convenes in January to start a new session, 4th district Congressman Hank Johnson will have a new responsibility to tend to; gathering support for legislation when it comes to the floor for a ...

The trial of a 20-year-old Mississippi man charged with making an Internet threat through MySpace to assassinate President Bush has been rescheduled for Jan.