JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — The Mississippi Department of Education’s new budget includes a request for $1 million to focus on cheating in the public schools. Department spokesman Pete Smith told The Clarion-Ledger the agency has no money set […]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Mississippi has received fewer than 200 of the unaccompanied immigrant children who crossed the U.S. border and were released to sponsors so far this year, but the war of words over […]
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 […]
GULFPORT, Mississippi (AP) — A south Mississippi man was charged Wednesday with capital murder in the slaying and sexual assault of Ja-Naya Thompson, a 5-year-old girl who was taken from an apartment complex last week, […]
The Associated Press Here are some news and notes around Mississippi this morning: — In Oxford, the Lafayette County Board of Supervisors has repealed a local ban on armed civilians in courthouses. Board Attorney David […]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — The Greenwood school district will get six more days to respond to a report by the Mississippi Department of Education that claims widespread violations of state standards occurred in the district. […]
By JONA KALLGREN KHARKIV, Ukraine (AP) — Two military aircraft carrying the first bodies of victims of the Malaysia Airlines crash left the embattled plains of eastern Ukraine Wednesday, while British investigators began work on a […]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Mississippi’s 2014 U.S. Senate race has been dominated by a bitter Republican primary that never seems to end. One of the state’s largest political gatherings, the Neshoba County Fair, could help […]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — The Mississippi State Department of Health is confirming one new human case of chikungunya (chih-kihn-GUHN’-yuh) virus. Health officials say in a news release the newest case occurred in a resident who […]
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