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Senate Public Health and Welfare Chairman Hob Bryan, D-Amory, and state Rep. Dirk Dedeaux, D-Perkinston, who chairs the House Medicaid Committee, reached agreement Sunday on a new hospital tax that had the leadership of the Senate and House talking in terms of closing a budget deal within days.

JACKSON - A new hospital tax agreement should help legislators reach a deal quickly on Mississippi's nearly $5 billion budget for the fiscal year that begins in less than two weeks, House Speaker Billy McCoy said Sunday.

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Gary Rath, a former Mississippi State pitcher and ex-big leaguer, has been named the head baseball coach at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College.

House and Senate negotiators said they made some progress Monday on one of the budget's main sticking points - Medicaid - though a compromise eluded lawmakers with the fiscal year set to begin in about two weeks.

A June 30 deadline for crafting a state budget is causing some key leaders to scrap their summer travel plans, while others say there's no need to rework their schedules.

We spotted Kristen Vernon, 19, of Hattiesburg while sitting in Kamper Park with her friend Chase Rockwell.

Ole Miss signee Thomas Watkins of Madison made five birdies in his first 14 holes and was leading the Mississippi Amateur by two shots when rain stopped play in Thursday's opening round at Windance Country Club.

The Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Jackson County campus and Perkinston campus chapters of Alpha Beta Gamma and several student members of those chapters won awards at the Alpha Beta Gamma 2009 National Leadership Conference in Las Vegas.

The Mississippi House is changing its budget-negotiating team as talks stall on a state spending plan for the coming fiscal year.

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College's Web site - mgccc.edu - has an organizational chart for the institution.

Rolling thunder, dark gray skies and a light drizzle couldn't keep Stone County High's graduating class from their most important high school celebration.

Clinton High's band has a new director: Michael "Mickey" Mangum, leader of the Kosciusko High Big Red Band.

Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College graduated a record number of students this year with 1,651 receiving degrees.

Services are 11 a.m. Saturday at Moore Funeral Home in Wiggins for Hollie Thomas Bond Jr., 79, of Jackson, who died May 6, 2009, at the VA Medical Center in Jackson.

Mississippi house and senate negotiators will try again next week to hammer out an agreement on how much to raise the cigarette tax after failing to do so on Tuesday.

PERKINSTON - Saturday's scheduled doubleheader between Jones County Junior College and Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College has been postponed by rain.

Marie Heim who spearheaded the collection of blankets, coats and gloves to keep the needy and homeless people in South Mississippi warm this winter, is caring and generous with her time in every aspect of life.

Circuit Judge Lisa Dodson sentenced 43-year-old Kimberly Michelle Beard on Monday.