Mississippi Government News

The recession has hit the Mississippi Food Network hard. For the first time in its history, the 25-year-old food bank won't be able to buy turkeys and distribute them to thousands of needy Mississippi residents at Thanksgiving.

About a dozen hooded Ku Klux Klan members rallied briefly at the University of Mississippi before Saturday's football game with No.

If not for his grandmother, Ryne Graham would quietly be attending his classes at the University of Mississippi and keeping his profile rather low.

JACKSON - Most of the attention in Gov. Haley Barbour's budget proposal has been focused on his plans to merge universities, consolidate school districts and close mental health centers.

A $75,000 award to a family who claimed Lisa Williams' death resulted from Laurel police officers' failure to arrest Kenneth Wilson after two disturbance calls has been thrown out by the Mississippi Supreme Court.

A Mississippi man has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison without parole for attempting to have sex with underage prostitutes.

Gov. Haley Barbour's plan to merge Mississippi's three historically black universities has created a tense atmosphere in a state saddled with a violent civil rights past and a decades-long legal battle over the historic underfunding of those schools.

Mississippi authorities say the state mental hospital is not equipped to handle a death row inmate whose execution was blocked when a federal judge found him insane.

A 2-year-old in north Mississippi has done something few toddlers can: He helped his mother give birth to his brother.

Gov. Haley Barbour's Fiscal Year 2011 Executive Budget Recommendation contains something for almost every lobbyist, special interest group, educational institution, state agency head and state employee to dislike.

Gov. Haley Barbour's brother is going to Meridian Tuesday night to accept a batch of signatures gathered on voter-identification petitions.

Gov. Haley Barbour said the state should consider merging some of its universities to save money.

Following stops in Kuwait and Iraq, Gov. Haley Barbour has traveled to Afghanistan to visit with Mississippi National Guardsmen who are serving in the war there.

A tragedy for the military on U.S. soil: An army psychiatrist kills 13 people at Ft.

Gov. Haley Barbour visited with Mississippi National Guard troops on the ground at forward operating bases in Afghanistan today after discussions on Thursday with the U.S. ambassador and military commanders in Kabul, the country's capital city.

Three University of Tennessee freshmen players charged with attempted armed robbery will not play with the Volunteers at Mississippi.

A federal report has confirmed concerns about cotton production losses in Louisiana and Mississippi due to the wet fall.

Bobby DeLaughter made history as a young prosecutor who put away a notorious civil rights-era assassin.

Richard "Dickie" Scruggs involvement in a judicial bribery scandal had nothing to do with a fees dispute involving Hurricane Katrina insurance cases, the Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled.

Mississippi Medicaid officials should have asked the Legislature for approval before tinkering with a law that would change reimbursements for pharmacists, the state Supreme Court has ruled.