January News

In June, The Mississippi Food Network, Mississippi's principal non-profit food bank, completed 25 years of service.

A Mississippi company has recalled prepackaged meals containing instant nonfat dried milk made by Plainview Milk Products Cooperative.

The Monster Employment Index slipped one point or one percent in June as online job opportunities fell modestly, largely in line with seasonal expectations.

Wilbert Jones and Bill Marcy are on Tuesday's ballot in Lauderdale County in a runoff for the Mississippi House District 82 post.

Online job advertisements declined by over 500,000 in June compared with the same period a year earlier, but a national report shows only a modest decrease from May, a private research group says.

LeTourneau Technologies is resuming construction of a third 240C class jackup rig at its Warren County yard south of Vicksburg.

House Corrections Committee Chairman Bennett Malone believes lawmakers have taken great strides in solving the problem of Mississippi's ballooning prison system budget.

For the uninitiated, Mississippi's legislative budget process begins in earnest some nine months prior to the end of each fiscal year on June 30.

The Nixon Presidential Library released over 150 hours of audio recordings Tuesday.

A federal judge has sentenced four people to prison for health care fraud, including former Moss Point Municipal Judge Jimmy Davis Hull.

Mental health facilities across Mississippi are making contingency plan for future possible cuts in state funding.

Attorney General Bill McCollum announced June 23 that Florida and 41 other states have reached a settlement with TJX Companies, Inc., the parent company of numerous retail chains, over allegations the company did not provide adequate data security for its customers.

Toyota Motor Corp Executive Vice President and next president Akio Toyoda speaks during a news conference in Tokyo January 20, 2009.

Officials say the Pearl River County Sheriff's Department leads the coastal region in shutting down methamphetamine labs.

Author/performer Frank Blocker 's highly acclaimed and multi-nominated "Southern Gothic Novel" The Aberdeen, Mississippi Sex-Slave Incident will play its last performance at the Stage Left Studio Theatre Wednesday, June 24th.

Since his appointment in January as Mississippi State University's 19th president, Dr.

Citing environmental concerns and regulatory issues, U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor and 36 other U.S. lawmakers have asked the U.S. Department of Commerce to reject a controversial plan to allow fish farms in the Gulf of Mexico.

Those "green shoots" of economic rebound don't yet have very deep roots. While some economic indicators are pointing to better days ahead, data shows consumers continued to struggle to make loan payments in the first quarter.

In January, Entergy temporarily suspended work on a new nuclear license for Grand Gulf Nuclear Station in Mississippi after it was unable to come to business terms with its reactor vendor of choice, GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy.

Governor Carcieri's office said Thursday that he supports the new Senate version of a bill that would pave the way for National Grid to set up long-term contracts to purchase renewable energy.