ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — At least 10 U.S. states are considering bills to legalize or expand Internet gambling this year, according to a group that tracks gambling-related legislation worldwide. But the Gambling Compliance survey […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A defense expert testified Tuesday that a Georgia woman died from previous unlicensed cosmetic injections in her buttocks, not the ones at the center of a depraved-heart murder trial in Mississippi. […]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — A former official of the federal Transportation Security Administration in Mississippi has appealed his murder conviction in the 2011 death of a co-worker. The appeal from Ruben Orlando Benitez is among […]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Leaders of Mississippi’s cities and towns are renewing their effort to get a local option sales tax. The 1 percent tax would have to be approved by at least 60 percent […]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Mississippi education officials have awarded $2 million to 11 groups to provide preschool for 4-year-olds. It’s Mississippi’s first use of state money to pay for prekindergarten classes. The state Board of […]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — A cold front is expected to bring freezing rain to north Mississippi late Thursday and into Friday with accumulations of up to one quarter of an inch in places. Alan Gerard, […]
MONTGOMERY, Alabama (AP) — A onetime Ku Klux Klan leader is charged with burning a cross in a mostly black neighborhood in southeast Alabama, federal prosecutors said Friday. Steven Joshua Dinkle, 28, was indicted on […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Almost 6 million young people are neither in school nor working, according to a study released October 21.
That’s almost 15 percent of those aged 16 to 24 who have neither desk nor job, according to The Opportunity Nation coalition, which wrote the report.
Other studies have shown that idle young adults are missing out on a window to build skills they will need later in life or use the knowledge they acquired in college. Without those experiences, they are less likely to command higher salaries and more likely to be an economic drain on their communities… […]
JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Mississippi state health officials say the number of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome deaths in the state has declined by more than half from 2011 to 2012.
In 2012, the state reported 21 SIDS deaths, a rate of 0.5 infant deaths per 1,000 live births, compared to 43 deaths in 2011, a rate of 1.1 infant deaths per 1,000 live births… […]
CAMARILLO, California (AP) — The average U.S. price of a gallon of gasoline has dropped 14 cents over the past two weeks.
The Lundberg Survey of fuel prices released Sunday says the price of a gallon of regular is $3.38. Midgrade costs an average of $3.58 a gallon, and premium is $3.71.
Diesel was down 4 cents at $3.92 gallon.
Mississippi has the fourth-lowest gas prices in the country with an average of $3.11 per gallon for regular… […]
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