Mississippi Legislature

The Mississippi Legislature's focus on education this year yielded some valuable changes, Lafayette County legislators said Monday at the Oxford-Lafayette Chamber of Commerce's annual legislative review luncheon. Rep. Brad Mayo, R-Oxford, noted...

If there's one thing we can all agree on, it's that there should be a Tammy Wynette Museum in Tremont, Miss. Sadly, momentum may not be on our side. For one thing, the one-time First Lady of Country Music has been dead for 15 years; her fans aren't...

TUPELO, Miss. — FBI agents arrested a Mississippi martial arts instructor early Saturday in the bizarre case of poisoned letters sent to President Obama, a U.S. senator and a local judge. James Everett Dutschke was arrested without incident at his...

Ken Malone and the board members of his startup biotech company gathered in a conference room at the University of Southern Mississippi last October to make a gut-wrenching decision. Ablitech Inc.'s funding was slowly drying up, and it couldn't find...

VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) — William Gray was on a routine fishing trip to Arkansas' scenic Lake Chicot about three years ago when his bass boat needed a fill-up. After a day's haul with co-workers in the Grand Gulf Bass Club, the avid duck hunter and...

BILOXI, Miss. — From the balconies of the Isle of Capri Casino, Mississippi's once-glittering coastline spreads toward the horizon like an allegory of bad luck — a nightmare vision of heaped debris, buildings stripped to beams and traffic...