Mississippi News

The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency urges Mississippians to stay aware of the forecasted track of Hurricane Ida and any possible flooding or storm surge that may occur.

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said Tuesday from Iraq that he's proud of the job American troops are doing.

Mississippi's uninsured and underinsured can receive free swine flu medication. The state Department of Health announced Monday it had reached agreements with some pharmacies to help distribute Tamiflu and Relenza, two medications used to treat H1N1 flu symptoms.

Republican Gov. Haley Barbour and key legislators say they won't try to offset Mississippi's sluggish revenue with a tax increase in 2010, but fees are open for discussion.

Coastal areas of Mississippi were under a tropical storm warning today after Ida lost strength over the water on its way to a landfall.

Biloxi on the Mississippi Gulf Coast is ready for Hurricane Ida.

FOR THOSE keeping score, the knock-down, drag-out battle between the powers that be at the state Capitol during the 2010 regular session of the Legislature won't be about Medicaid funding as it was in 2009 - at least not directly.

The University of Mississippi will enforce a rule bars tailgaters from putting up tents before 6 p.m. on Fridays.

A hurricane watch has been issued for coastal Louisiana and Mississippi as Hurricane Ida begins making its way through the Gulf of Mexico toward the U.S. Ida could reach the northern Gulf Coast by Tuesday.

In the Republican Party's weekly radio address, Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said Democrats should scrap their ambitious legislation and concentrate ...

The Internal Revenue Service is looking for Mississippi and Louisiana taxpayers who are due to receive a combined $2.39 million in the form of 2,445 refund checks that were returned to the IRS by the U.S. Postal Service due to mailing address errors.

Hartwell Huddleston returned the extra combine he bought to help harvest what looked to be one of his best soybean crops ever.

Bob Riley's Cabinet says Riley received campaign contributions in 2002 from Mississippi Indians who operate casinos.

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour says he wants more power to cut state spending when times are tough.

Ed Darling, a veteran editor and publisher at newspapers in Mississippi, Alabama and Oklahoma, has announced his retirement as publisher of the Mississippi Business Journal.

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Police in Conway say two containers of feminine hygiene products stolen from a distribution center in Conway have been found in Florida and Mississippi.

A Memphis businessman linked to a multistate black-market cigarette operation will be in federal court in Greenville on Nov.

A state Department of Education spokesman says Tom Burnham, who served as Mississippi's superintendent of education in the mid-1990s, has been chosen to return to the job.

The Mississippi Arts Commission has announced the 2010 recipients of the Governor's Awards.