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Senate Finance Chair Josh Harkins, R-Flowood, discusses with Mississippi Today’s Bobby Harrison and Taylor Vance the passage of the two...

After the head of Mississippi Medicaid said his agency needed more time to research a policy that would make it easier for poor moms to rec...

On this episode of Mississippi Stories, editor-at-large Marshall Ramsey sits down with Scott Allen, owner of A Plus Signs in Jackson, to ta...

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Mississippi has the nation’s lowest per capita income at $46,248 annually and the highest percentage of people living in poverty at 18.2%....

On this day in 1847, more than 100 Marshall, Michigan, citizens helped escaped slaves Adam Crosswhite and his family flee to Canada.The po...

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Column: Will Rogers, the record-setting Mississippi State quarterback and now Washington Huskies QB-in-waiting, is overdue for something go...

Mississippians who need mental health treatment before they can stand trial have to wait in jail longer than people in any other state but...

Last year, committee chairs in the House and Senate killed every Medicaid expansion bill without a debate or vote. Now, for the first t...

A key component in Amazon Web Services’ commitment to spend $10 billion to construct two “hyperscale data centers” in Madison County is an...

Restricting the use of jail to detain people who haven’t been charged with a crime – a practice that is extremely rare in the vast majority...

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Mississippians would be prevented from placing an initiative on the ballot to change the state’s strict anti-abortion laws under a proposal...

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The Mississippi Legislature will go into special session called by Gov. Tate Reeves for the second time in eight days to consider the appro...

Last week’s legislative approval of at least $350 million for a green energy plant in north Mississippi was such an orchestrated affair tha...

Just-turned-20-year-old amateur Nick Dunlap shot 29 under par this past weekend to win the PGA Tour’s American Express Classic in the deser...

The state’s troubled hospital grant program has doled out money to a handful of hospitals, but it’ll take a new law to get hospitals the fu...

A provision of the 1890 Mississippi Constitution designed to prevent Black people voting was not meant to be punitive, the office of Attorn...

Low-income Mississippi students will get an extra two months to file a federal form in order to get the state’s need-based college financia...

Newly elected House Speaker Jason White says he will continue convening private Republican caucus meetings at the Capitol in 2024, effectiv...

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Just when Alexis Smith thought it couldn’t get any worse, she was diagnosed with cervical cancer.The 30-year-old mom of four had been r...

New JSU President Marcus Thompson, six key administrative hires as his tenure reaches the two-month mark.The post New JSU president fills...