WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) — The Senate on Tuesday unanimously confirmed former Procter & Gamble CEO Robert McDonald as the new Veterans Affairs secretary, with a mission to overhaul an agency beleaguered by long veterans’ waits […]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Mississippi merchants and shoppers are gearing up for the fifth annual back-to-school sales tax holiday. Mississippi’s sales tax holiday starts Friday at 12:01 a.m. and ends Saturday at midnight. For retailers, […]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Gambling revenues tumbled in Mississippi’s river region in the first month after Harrah’s Tunica Hotel & Casino closed, but the overall downward trend didn’t worsen much. Meanwhile, Gulf Coast casinos posted […]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Mississippi registered the worst jobless rate in the nation in June, as unemployment rose in the state while improving elsewhere. The jobless rate rose to 7.9 percent in June as the […]
D’IBERVILLE, Mississippi (AP) — D’Iberville Mayor Quave says the tax revenues generated from a casino will allow the city to give raises to police, fire and city employees, as well as pay for much-needed sewer […]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Mississippi taxpayers could help pay for two more malls that squeezed in approvals before a law allowing sales tax subsidies expired June 30 The Mississippi Development Authority approved applications in June […]
LINCOLN, R.I. (AP) — Twin River has completed its purchase of a Hard Rock casino in Biloxi, Mississippi, a move said to strengthen the Rhode Island-based casino as it prepares for the threat of gambling […]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Block Communications Inc. has acquired MetroCast Mississippi, a rural cable system that provides cable television, telephone and Internet services to more than 45,000 residential and business customers in 16 Mississippi counties. […]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Mississippi tax collections continued growing strongly in the just-concluded budget year, posting another year of 5 percent growth and ensuring that money will be available to help improve local roads and […]
The Associated Press Mississippi’s unemployment rate in May was tied with Kentucky’s for the nation’s fourth-highest. But that 7.7 percent rate was still well below Mississippi’s 9 percent rate a year earlier. The national unemployment […]
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