Time's Money Magazine names Gulfport the best place to live in Mississippi. The publication cites the city's attractions including the sportsplex and the Gulf Islands Water Parks. The magazine looked at communities nationwide with at least 50-thousand residents. Gulfport city…
A judge in an eight-year, running lawsuit initiated by Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood has been removed. The Clarion Ledger reports the Fifth US Circuit Court of appeals cited US District Judge "Henry Wingate's" failure to rule on pending motion…
The Mississippi emergency management agency's director is responding to a federal audit recommending FEMA take back nearly all three point five million dollars in grants given to hope academy after Katrina. Director Lee Smithson wrote an op-ed column noting FEMA…
Bryant could be open to the possibility of a state lottery. In a written statement to the clarion ledger, Bryant says he would be willing to discuss it. Making him the first governor in nearly 30 years to say he…
Former State Senator "Irb Benjamin" is expected to become the sixth person to plead guilty in Mississippi's Prison Contract Bribery Scandal. Benjamin has filed notice he plans to plead guilty on October 18. He's accused paying bribes to former Corrections…
Mississippi is the last state to allow electronic filing of campaign finance reports. These reports allow transparency for the public in order to see where influential spending is occurring during election season. The National Institute on Money in State Politics…
South Mississippi lawmakers, along with Lieutenant Governor Tate Reeves, want to make sure the majority of BP oil spill settlement funds are spent on the Gulf Coast. Northeast Mississippi legislators are saying not so fast. Representative William Tracy Arnold, a…
South Mississippi Legislators along with Lieutenant Governor Tate Reeves want to make sure BP Oil spill settlement funds are mostly spent on the gulf coast, but North East Mississippi Legislators are saying not so fast. Representative William Tracy Arnold a…
Mississippi receives federal advanced placement grants in an effort to boost college and career readiness for historically underserved students. The state will receive nearly $190,000 in grants from the U.S. Department of Education to help low income families pay for…
Planned Parenthood is hoping the overturning of a law in Louisiana will help overturn a similar ruling in Mississippi. The women’s health group is asking a federal judge to overturn a Mississippi law that bans Medicaid from spending with a…
A hostage situation is going on at a rooming house in Jackson. It all started this morning. Police say 13 hostages have been released and at least one more person is still barricaded inside a home. A 9-1-1 call came…
One coast politician is refusing to look past the actions of Pascagoula police during the July 29th traffic stop of formed Moss Point Police Chief Art McClung former republican Presidential Candidate and Pascagoula property owner Mark Everson is set to…
The man accused of killing two Mississippi nuns confesses this according to a state investigator. The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation officer testified Friday during a preliminary hearing for 46 year old Rodney Earl Sanders. According to the officer, Sanders confessed…
Mississippi Prisons do not allow photos to be taken during an inmate's visitation hours and one local woman is trying to change that. A Photoshop picture is the closest thing to picayune resident Jennifer Bynum’s has to a real photograph…
There will be a new way the state board of education assign grades to schools and school districts. The board voted to approve the new scoring level system Thursday. Last month the board discussed a potential plan to assign A's…
The man accused of killing two nuns in central Mississippi will appear in court this afternoon. 46 year old "Rodney Earl Sanders" is charged with capita murder in the death two Nuns "Margaret Held" and "Paula Merrill" the sisters were…
Developing trade ties with Cuba it's something state leaders are working toward. The Mississippi Development Authority will meet with thouse who work in Cuba's major sectors and industries at the end of October in Jackson, They're set to discuss the…
A local family is willing to do whatever it takes to find their loved one. Tammyetta Spaulding was last seen on September 2nd in Jackson. Her niece Jacqueline lives in Gulfport and is asking the public to help her and…
Parts of eastern Mississippi continue to recover after they were hit by the same devastating flooding that hit Louisiana last month. While Louisiana received national disaster funds from FEMA, places like Wilkerson County and the city of Crosby in Mississippi…
A federal judge dismisses a lawsuit that sought to eliminate the Mississippi flag as a state symbol. U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves dismissed the case in a ruling Thursday saying the plaintiffs failed to show the Confederate battle emblem had…
Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant is cutting $56.8 million from the $5.8 billion state budget to make up for an accounting error. Republican Bryant announced the cuts Wednesday, just over two months into the budget year. He trimmed spending rather than…
The tragedy continues families of five victims brutally murdered in a Citronelle, Alabama home. Over the weekend, the house in which a south Mississippi man is accused of killing the victims burned down. two weeks after five adults and an…
Gov. Bryant speaks out after Mississippi State University officials decide to take down the state flag across campus. In a strong statement, Bryant says Mississippi’s public universities are teaching disrespect for state law by removing the state's flag, with its…
Donald Trump's presidential campaign has not yet turned in paperwork for the republican nominee to be listed on the Mississippi ballot this November. The secretary of state's office state there's a Sept. 9 deadline to submit forms. Paperwork must be…