FRISCO, Colo. Whole Foods Market Inc. says it has signed eight new leases for stores in cities including Frisco, Colo.
JACKSON, Miss. Attorney General Jim Hood may be busy Thursday while House members debate a bill to limit his powers.
JACKSON, Miss. Democratic bitterness over Republican campaign tactics in last year's Mississippi legislative elections erupted Wednesday in a debate over an otherwise routine local bill.
CANTON, Miss. Madison County Court Judge Ed Hannan has found rental property owner Mike Crook guilty of violating Madison's rental ordinance.
CARRIERE, Miss. Pearl River Central High School athletic director Andy Kivlan is working on a program to require students participating in sports to be subject to random drug screening.
FAYETTE, Miss. Amite County will study shale oil and gas development in southwest Mississippi.
MERIDIAN, Miss. The city of Meridian has slashed payments to the project developer for a new police station until work resumes.
JACKSON, Miss. A month after former Gov. Haley Barbour ended two terms in office by pardoning nearly 200 people including convicted killers, Mississippi's highest court will take up the issue of whether those pardons complied with the letter of the law.
STARKVILLE, Miss. Mississippi State has a starting five that looks capable of a deep run into the NCAA Tournament come March.
State-by-state listing of violations cited by Department of Interior to energy companies drilling for oil and gas on public lands, February 1998 to February. 2011.
WASHINGTON Federal policing of oil and natural gas drilling on public lands is lax and inconsistent, with only 6 percent of violations resulting in monetary fines over 13 years, House Democrats said in a report Wednesday.
JACKSON, Miss. The Mississippi Health Department told lawmakers Wednesday that it needs more money in the coming budget year or it may have to close clinics and reduce AIDS drug purchases.
NEW ORLEANS The Federal Emergency Management Agency announced Wednesday that it is rolling out a plan to waive debts for many victims of Hurricane Katrina and other disasters who may have mistakenly received millions of dollars in aid.
PARCHMAN, Miss. Mississippi inmate Edwin Hart Turner was executed Wednesday evening for killing two men in a 1995 robbery spree after the courts declined to stop the execution based on arguments that he was mentally ill.
JACKSON, Miss. The Mississippi Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would merge Sunflower County's three school districts into one, easing into the politically sensitive topic of consolidation by focusing on a single area in the impoverished Delta.
JACKSON, Miss. The freedom of 10 people is at stake and dozens of others could lose their hopes for a cleansed record in the legal battle over former Gov. Haley Barbour's pardons.
NEW ORLEANS The Federal Emergency Management Agency is implementing a plan to waive debts for thousands of victims of Hurricane Katrina and other disasters.
SOUTHAVEN, Miss. Southaven Mayor Greg Davis has attended his first board of aldermen meeting since he became a target of an investigation into his alleged misuse of city money.
TARBORO, N.C. The Daily Southerner in Tarboro has named veteran journalist John H. Walker as its new editor and publisher.
GALESBURG, Ill. About 120 Illinois National Guard soldiers will soon begin training for a nine-month mission in Kuwait.
