JACKSON, Miss. Feuding attorneys asked the Mississippi Supreme Court on Thursday to determine the validity of pardons that Haley Barbour gave to convicted killers and other convicts during his final days as governor.
GLOSTER, Miss. A fire has destroyed the former Georgia Pacific paper mill in Gloster.
CHUNKY, Miss. Newton County authorities are investigating the discovery of skeletal remains in a home in the Chunky community in east Mississippi.
NEW ORLEANS A Mississippi levee board asked a federal appeals court Thursday to revive a $220 million Yazoo River flood control project that was vetoed by the Environmental Protection Agency in 2008 over concerns that it would harm wetlands and wildlife.
NEW ORLEANS The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development says two Louisiana tribes will get a total of $184,600 in Indian Housing Block Grants, and the Mississippi Band of Choctaws will get almost $3.2 million.
BYRAM, Miss. Bond has been set for two men charged with multiple church burglaries.
JACKSON, Miss. A Hinds County jury has convicted David Waits in the fatal shooting of a man outside a Jackson convenience store more than a year ago.
GULFPORT, Miss. A former Gulf Coast doctor has pleaded guilty to failing to pay thousands of dollars in child support while avoiding prosecution by living outside the United States.
PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss. Sheriff's investigators have arrested a Pass Christian man and have warrants for two others after a man went to a truck stop and reported he had been kidnapped and beaten.
BILOXI, Miss. The Band Perry, Montgomery Gentry, Lakeside and Jake Owen are just some of the talent scheduled to perform at this year's Crawfish and Music Festival.
COLUMBUS, Miss. The Columbus Municipal School District has announced it will not renew the contracts of 59 teachers and support staff.
BROOKHAVEN, Miss. The city of Brookhaven has applied for the grant to replace the City Park playground.
JACKSON, Miss. The state of Mississippi has collected $7.3 million thus far from its efforts to crackdown on unemployment fraud.
OXFORD, Miss. The Three Rivers Solid Waste Authority is negotiating terms with the Canadian company Enerkem to build a new material-recycling facility at the Pontotoc landfill.
GREENWOOD, Miss. Leflore County supervisors have delayed action on a grant to tear down and rebuild a general aviation area at the Greenwood-Leflore Airport.
JACKSON -- A month after former Gov. Haley Barbour pardoned nearly 200 people including convicted killers, Mississippi’s highest court today will take up the issue of whether those pardons complied with the letter of the law.
OCEAN SPRINGS -- Jackson County supervisors have voted to add money to the county Health Department budget in hopes of getting some services restored to a satellite office north of Ocean Springs.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Cameron Moore scored 27 points on 12-of-15 shooting as Alabama-Birmingham defeated Southern Mississippi 71-61 Wednesday night, handing the Golden Eagles only their second loss in the past 18 games.
BOGALUSA, La. A Mississippi man who reportedly said he was never going back to prison is now doing just that.
PARCHMAN, Miss. A Mississippi inmate has been put to death for killing two men in a December 1995 robbery spree after the courts declined to stop the execution based on arguments that he was mentally ill.
