Plantersville News

Mental health officials are asking lawmakers to spare six of the state's crisis centers and other mental health facilities that Gov.

Plantersville's City Hall is getting a long overdue makeover and expansion. Thanks to a $100,000 Mississippi Development Authority Small Municipalities and Limited Population Grant, the building is getting its first renovation since it was built in 1974.

A term-limited Gov. Haley Barbour knows he's getting politically hammered for his explosive budget proposal that landed with a thud audible from here to Plantersville.

As state revenues continue to fall below expectations, Gov. Haley Barbour wants more authority to make deeper budget cuts .

JACKSON, Miss. - Officials and supporters of the Elvis Presley Birthplace again will ask legislators to love them tender when the 2010 session begins in January.

That a voter identification initiative won't make it on the 2010 ballot is likely of no surprise to its Republican Party sponsors or Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann, who delivered the message to legislative leaders this past week.

Mississippians are more likely to consider a voter-identification ballot measure in 2011 than in 2010, the state's top elections official said Tuesday.

More allegations have arisen that the state Division of Medicaid is removing children from getting speech therapy to save money.

Dozens of large packets of paper covered tabletops Tuesday, as state lawmakers returned to Jackson for a second day of budget hearings.

JACKSON, Miss. - People seeking state government jobs in Mississippi will have to fill out applications on computers starting in January.

They were called to service Tuesday. The 160-member unit marched into the exhibit room at the Vicksburg Convention Center full of pride and enthusiasm for the mission.

Six wins in a row for programs submitted to the Mississippi Municipal League is an achievement the Picayune Police Department accomplished Wednesday.

The Democratic-led Mississippi House voted Friday to let the Public Service Commission hire three more staff members to evaluate legal and financial documents from utility companies.

BRANDON, Miss. - A burn center will open in Brandon on Monday, providing the state its first inpatient burn-treatment facility in four years.

The Department of Defense has released the name of a Plantersville soldier who was killed in Afghanistan.