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State Tax Commission Chairman Ed Morgan told lawmakers during state budget hearings last week that his agency desperately needed $32 million to replace an imploding state tax revenue collection computer system.

A national leader of ACORN says the embattled community activist group has not received money from the state of Mississippi.

Legislators are asking Mississippi education officials to consider pushing back the start date for public schools as a way to save money and boost tourism.

Promoters of a two-night professional rodeo held Saturday and Friday were elated at the results.

In Mississippi, over 500 blacks had been lynched since 1882. Racially motivated murders were not uncommon in the Mississippi Delta and Mamie Till Bradley a schoolteacher in Chicago tried her best to school her 14-year-old son, Emmett about that prior to his trip to the Delta where she had relatives.

That's how much money the Meridian Housing Authority presented to the Community Foundation of East Mississippi on this day to start an endowment for scholarships.

Before now, women in Stone County facing unexpected pregnancy had to travel nearly 30 miles to get the help they needed.

A large portion of the money generated from the nearly 35,000 tickets state troopers issued during a drunken driving campaign will help fund DUI investigations by the state.

Volunteers served up savory spaghetti dinners for a fundraiser at the de l' Eppe Deaf Center in Gulfport.

With a military style boot camp theme, the United Way of Southeast Mississippi, kicked off their annual campaign in downtown Hattiesburg Thursday.