Mississippi News

An area of moderate drought has spread further west across south Louisiana, and abnormally dry conditions have extended further north in neighboring Mississippi.

Civil rights activist Joan Trumpauer Mulholland discusses May 12, 2009 in Jackson, Miss., the events that surrounded her being photographed as she and other Tougaloo College students were being abused by white youth as they tried in 1963 to integrate a Woolworth Department Store lunch counter in Jackson, Miss.

The Mississippi Public Service Commission is sending most of its 73 employees home without pay until the agency has a budget, commissioners said Thursday.

Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol troopers arrested two men Tuesday after two troopers were nearly hit when a car sped through a driver's license checkpoint in Covington County.

The Mississippi Public Service Commission is scaling back operations and telling most of its 73 employees to stay home until the agency has a budget, commissioners said Thursday.

Marine biologists are studying how artificial reefs may help restore red snapper numbers.

The federal stimulus package has helped keep some contractors in business, and will give towns in the Mississippi Delta a public service they've gone without for decades: paved streets.

In California, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a fiscal emergency and ordered state offices closed three days a month to save money as the state sank deeper into dysfunction.

Mississippi Department of Public Safety Commissioner Steve Simpson says he hasn't rejected federal officials' offer to begin talks to reach an agreement over racial discrimination complaints made by his agency's black troopers.

Gov. Jan Brewer kept state government running but rejected funding levels for K-12 schools and said she was calling a special session next week to increase school funding.

Gov. Haley Barbour has vetoed parts of Mississippi's overall $6 billion budget, including two provisions in a bill dealing with overtime pay for state troopers.

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

The Mississippi House passed a resolution Tuesday commending the life and career of Michael Jackson and mourning the pop superstar's death.

Legislators in more than a half-dozen states, their revenues evaporating in the recession, frantically worked to stave off government shutdowns and devastating service cuts.

Two well-known south Mississippi authors, Carolyn Haines and Anne McKee, will sign their works at Main Street Books, downtown Hattiesburg.

Mississippi lawmakers' budget work slowed to a crawl tonight as the clock raced to the midnight beginning of a new fiscal year.

A Mississippi law passed to curb illegal workers is about to enter a second phase.

COLUMBUS - Take it from Jim Tressel, now an experienced world traveler. There are few places like Djibouti in early June.

" Governor Haley Barbour and officials from GE Aviation today announced a unique research collaboration with the University of Southern Mississippi for technology and advanced material development in the company's Composites Operation in Batesville.

In an interview with Republican Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour on Sunday, CBSa TMs Bob Schieffer wondered: "Do you think that Republicans now should sort of shift the emphasis, though, from stressing social and family values and shift to more a ' to economic issues and be a party of economic conservatives rather than putting so much emphasis on ...