Plantersville News

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.

State lawmakers allowed Mississippi Department of Transportation executive director Butch Brown to keep his job Thursday, but they ended a special session without addressing property-rights legislation requested by Gov.

For many Mississippians with mental illness, the condition initially manifests itself in ways that could be treated without inpatient care.

House-Senate negotiators gave up trying to reach a cigarette tax-increase compromise Wednesday night and killed the bill the Legislature passed in January to come up with much-needed revenues.

A bill passed overwhelmingly by state lawmakers to limit the taking of public property through eminent domain was vetoed by Governor Haley Barbour Tuesday morning.

Governor Haley Barbour announce this morning an additional $100 million dollars will need to be trimmed from this year's state budget and over 400 million from the fiscal year 2010 budget.

Mississippi House members are aiming to limit the amount spent on state cell phones, but they may face a fight over the issue in the coming weeks.

LOWNDES COUNTY Columbus teen sent home on 'American Idol' - COLUMBUS - Jasmine Murray was sent home on Wednesday's "American Idol." Murray, 17, performed on the singing competition Tuesday as a part of the ...

By Ginna Parsons Daily Journal PLANTERSVILLE - One day in 1988, Daisy Sadler discovered she had a gift.

BY BOBBY HARRISON Daily Journal Jackson Bureau JACKSON - The Legislature's collective populism is manifesting itself through its opposition to cameras that would monitor traffic-light violations.

Legislation to improve Mississippi highways and bridges, allow Jackson residents to consider raising sales taxes and give some Rankin Countians a chance to come out from dry laws survived Tuesday as a key ...

BY GINNY MILLER Daily Journal PALMETTO - Demarc White is employed full time at Cooper Tire, but his real work is the Lord's. "It was something I always wanted to do," White said about singing in the gospel ...

By M. Scott Morris Daily Journal The GumTree Museum of Art soon will bulge with the work of talented, young artists.

With Mississippi's teen pregnancy rate still at or near the top nationwide, the Mississippi House of Representatives decided this week to look at an option to the "abstinence only" program taught across the ...

BY BOBBY HARRISON Daily Journal Jackson Bureau JACKSON - The Mississippi House's Democratic governing coalition is composed of almost an equal division of black and white members.

If the state trusts doctors enough to issue them medical licenses, you'd think it would also trust their opinions on medical matters.

JACKSON, MS The Public Service Commission's investigation into fuel adjustment charges led to the discovery that the commission might not be doing enough to regulate the state's public utilities.

Supporters say a bill that passed the Mississippi House on Thursday could give the state's public service commissioners more access to financial and technical information as they regulate utility companies.