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By The Associated Press The Mississippi Senate voted 34-17 Wednesday to pass Senate Bill 2401, which would allow the widespread creation of charter schools in Mississippi. A "yes" vote was for the bill and...More >>

Opponents say an immigration-enforcement bill could lead to racial profiling that will cause Hispanics to flee Mississippi.More >>

The chairman of the state Board of Mental Health says if the Legislature goes ahead with present budget proposals, it could mean the loss of jobs at facilities across Mississippi.More >>

Anne Sullivan, the executive director of Magnolia Speech School, is retiring at the end of the year.More >>

U.S. Coast Guard investigators are trying to determine how a barge ran aground Wednesday on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway.More >>

The Leflore County School District has denied a public records request for information on the salaries of its administrators.More >>

Crystal Springs police have now found two bodies.More >>

The Southaven Board of Alderman has asked the attorney general's office whether two stipends received by Mayor Greg Davis are legal.More >>

Jackson County supervisors have voted to borrow $2.5 million in a five-year note to complete multiple projects.More >>

Hattiesburg Public School District Superintendent James Bacchus has completed his first full year as head of the district.More >>

Federal court records in Mississippi say an illegal immigrant from Mexico plans to plead guilty to a charge of coming back to the United States after being convicted of a violent crime and deported.More >>

New Albany businessman Travis Wiseman says he's ready to see rails converted to trails.More >>

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant is requesting an additional $355,531 to cover expenses for his staff through June 30, the final day of the current budget year.More >>

Republican congressional candidate Henry Ross is paying a $1,000 fine for failing to test fuel tanks at his north Mississippi gas station.More >>

Mississippi's share of a settlement from a minority partner in BP's blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico will go into the state's Pollution Emergency Fund.More >>

The owner of a used car dealership in Jackson and two other men have been charged with possessing with intent to distribute 416 pounds of marijuana.More >>

A former aide to Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran convicted in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal must spend 15 weekends in jail after getting kicked out of her halfway house for bringing in a steak knife.More >>

Online charter schools would not be allowed under a bill that Mississippi senators are pushing forward.More >>

As the Orpheus ball began to wind down early Tuesday, revelers geared up for the Fat Tuesday parades that began rolling shortly after daybreak.More >>

A Louisiana woman who was a cook on the BP PLC-leased drilling rig that was rocked by a deadly explosion in 2010 has settled her personal-injury claims against the oil giant and other companies involved in the disaster.More >>

A suburban New Orleans hospital is notifying patients that their personal information may have been contained on a missing computer hard drive.More >>

A University of Southern Mississippi search committee has begun looking for the university's next athletic director.More >>

Hattiesburg nightclub and bar owners say many smaller nightspots would be put out of business by a proposal to require on-site parking lots and at least three guards at every bar.More >>

Attorneys for a man who was declared dead and later charged in the kidnapping of a Las Vegas girl are asking a judge to dismiss one of the indictments against him. Thomas Steven Sanders was indicted in Louisiana in 2010 for...More >>

Southern Baptists first considered changing their name in 1903. Leaders have seriously proposed it at least 13 times since then.More >>

The city of Oxford is planning a three-month long birthday party.More >>

Greenwood native Walter "Furry" Lewis will be posthumously honored Tuesday with the 150th marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail.More >>

The day before Mardi Gras, known in this city as Lundi Gras, is almost as big as Fat Tuesday with revelers dancing to live music along the Mississippi River and many staking out spots early for Monday night's...More >>

Operation Shoestring is holding a community meeting in Jackson on Monday evening as a part of program designed to engage neighborhood families, community leaders, law enforcement and city officials in bettering the community.More >>

A trucker's widow has settled her 2011 wrongful death lawsuit with H&M International Transportation Inc.'s insurance company and a driver.More >>

The Mississippi attorney general's office is warning consumers and businesses to be aware of a scam that starts with an email soliciting confidential information under the guise of awarding money from the Ford foundation.More >>

More than 200 students from Southern colleges and universities are expected to attend the Southeastern Leadership Conference on March 3 at Southeastern Louisiana University.More >>

The University of Louisiana System's new online educational journal has set March 15 as the deadline for submitting manuscripts to be considered for its first issue.More >>

Lauderdale County Sheriff Billy Sollie says Rankin County is balking at taking the east Mississippi county's juvenile inmates.More >>

The town of Friars Point will announce Tuesday that it has received a grants totaling $699,698 to improve its sewer system and provide affordable housing to three families.More >>

The City of Jackson says contractors have fixed a 42-inch water main off Interstate 220 in south Jackson, but people there should keep boiling any water that will end up in someone's mouth, whether as cooked food or a...More >>

Sixty-four-year-old Mary Devine says she couldn't believe her last doctor's bill. She'd had a number of tests, including a colonoscopy and a mammogram, and the balance was "zero."More >>

Mississippi Phosphate Corp. and the Environmental Protection Agency have agreed on how to fix environmental violations remaining after a 2009 in section.More >>

Police Chief Keith Davis says a Moss Point man allegedly pulled a gun on his veterinarian because he felt he had to wait too long to pick up his dog.More >>

Lafayette County officials say trash is everywhere in the community, and they are looking for help to get the problem under control.More >>

Rennie Gibbs is scheduled to be in Lowndes Circuit Court on Tuesday for trial on charges of depraved heart murder in the death of her unborn child.More >>

Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood says he will ask lawmakers for tougher state laws to deal with trafficking in human beings.More >>

Pontotoc Spring, which makes coiled springs for the automotive aftermarket, as well as metal stampings for automotive, industrial and commercial applications, has been acquired by an Indiana company.More >>

Sheriff's deputies in Livingston Parish are investigating the theft of two dozen LSU championship rings taken from the home of an assistant athletics director.More >>

The city plans to buy three downtown properties in a $376,000 investment it hopes will result in a park or residential development.More >>

By MARY FOSTER Associated Press Writer It's not as glitzy as New Orleans, but it's not as frenzied either, and the throws are generous and more varied.More >>

Koppers Holdings Inc., which produces carbon compounds and wood treatment products, says it will close a facility in Grenada, Miss., because of low levels of profitability that show no signs of future improvement.More >>

After six and a half years of work, Pearl River County now has two state-of-the-art computerized wastewater treatment facilities up and running.More >>

The Coast Guard has partially reopened a five-mile stretch of the Mississippi River upriver from New Orleans after oil spilled from a barge following an early morning collision Friday.More >>

The Mississippi Democrat Party will begin on Saturday the delegate selection procedure.More >>

A judge is allowing a former lawmaker to pursue his alienation of affections lawsuit against the Lee County School Board.More >>

Brian Tolley will take over as executive editor of The Clarion-Ledger on March 12.More >>

Tony Rodio (ROH'-dee-oh), president of the Tropicana Casino and Resort in Atlantic City, has been promoted to president of the casino's parent company.More >>

Higher education officials will allow Mississippi State University to enter the "commercial paper" market to obtain $50 million for future construction projects.More >>

Washington County authorities have arrested a suspect in Wednesday's fatal shooting of a 34-year-old woman.More >>

A judge has refused to reduce a $500,000 bond for a Pass Christian woman accused of the death of a pedestrian walking along Interstate 10 near D'Iberville.More >>

The Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics says about 400 pounds of marijuana worth about $500,000 have been seized from a Jackon auto dealership.More >>

The director of community development and planning in Ocean Springs has resigned to lead Gautier's planning department.More >>

The U.S. Coast Guard will present a Certificate of Valor to Gulfport firefighter Lawrence Burkhalter on Friday.More >>

The Mississippi Parole Board rejected 16 inmates' requests for freedom before they were given full pardons by Republican Haley Barbour during his final days as governor.More >>

DeSoto County has formally objected to the Environmental Protection Agency's plan to list it as "nonattainment" on ozone levels.More >>

The Corinth School District plans to apply to the Mississippi Department of Education for qualified school construction bond funding that remains available from the federal stimulus programs.More >>

The second nuclear reactor at TVA's Watts Bar Nuclear Plant will not be completed on schedule and will be over budget.More >>

The FBI has warned Mississippi residents of a telephone scam that claims the person is eligible for a $5,000 to $10,000 grant from the Grants Department of the federal government.More >>

Mississippi Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves and his wife, Elee, are celebrating the birth of their third daughter.More >>

The Greenville school system will be switching to electronic badges for high school and middle school students.More >>

A 38-year-old Carriere man is facing charges in multiple jurisdictions for allegedly stealing telephone lines.More >>

Travelers to and from the Mississippi Coast soon can enjoy direct service between Gulfport and Lakeland, Fla.More >>

A sentencing date has been set for a man convicted of selling large quantities of cocaine from his mobile home in Okolona.More >>

The trial of a Warren County teen charged with murder in the 2011 death of her stepmother has been postponed until Aug. 20.More >>

Six people have qualified to run for circuit clerk of Lincoln County in a special election on Nov. 6.More >>

An adult's skeletal remains have been found in Oktibbeha County.More >>

Down-home blues artist Tommy McClennan will be honored with a Mississippi Blues Trail marker on Thursday in Yazoo City.More >>

The Republican-led Mississippi House has passed a bill that would limit the powers of the Democratic attorney general.More >>

President Obama has signed a bill to name the Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge for the late Sam D. Hamilton.More >>

Archaeologists have identified 13 unmarked, unrecorded graves at Vicksburg National Cemetery.More >>

The last of the once-ubiquitous FEMA trailers has been removed from New Orleans more than six years after floodwalls and levees broke during Hurricane Katrina and caused the city to flood.More >>

A Mississippi man has pleaded not guilty to robbing Planters Bank and Trust in Greenville on Dec. 20.More >>

The state will ask the U.S. Department of Commerce to issue a fisheries disaster declaration for Mississippi's shrimp industry.More >>

A 48-year-old Rienzi man was killed when his car crashed into a stray horse on Highway 45 in Prentiss County.More >>

Newly released audit reports call into question large entertainment reimbursements the Southaven Chamber of Commerce paid Mayor Greg Davis without receipts or other documentation.More >>

A Pearl River County man has been charged with the sexual battery of a young man that occurred over a six-year period in the early 1990s.More >>

The Corinth School District is buying automated external defibrillators and placing them on campuses throughout the district.More >>

After 42 years as an administrator and coach, Malcolm Kuykendall, superintendent of Tishomingo County School District, will retire on June 30.More >>

EastGroup Properties says profits rose in the fourth quarter as occupancy increased and expansion continued.More >>

A federal magistrate has appointed a doctor to examine a BP PLC employee who claims medical problems prevent him from being questioned under oath about the deadly 2010 rig explosion that spawned the nation's worst...More >>