As an Entergy Mississippi official told a state panel the company's recent 28-percent rate increase for residential electricity is "reasonable and prudent," consumer representatives stood outside the hearing and called utility companies' practices unfair.
Off-the-mark cost projections have contributed to increased power bills along with steep fuel prices, a Mississippi Public Utilities official testified Monday during public hearings spurred by rapid utilities rate spikes.
A proposal to move the Middle Bay Lighthouse about 15 miles to Battleship Memorial Park, restore it and put it on permanent display could cost about $1 million.
Mississippi is far from the nationally recommended student/nurse ratio, but education officials are making strides to put more nurses in public schools.
A lack of utility payments from Picayune and Poplarville has the Pearl River County Utility Authority board facing a tight budget.
Louisiana lawmakers have filed their required 2007 financial disclosure forms, the last time they report income from just two sectors: governments and gambling interests.
The state Court of Appeals has ordered a jury trial for a Mississippi State University student convicted of stalking.
If condemned inmate Dale Leo Bishop is executed as planned this month, it will be the swiftest a death penalty has been carried out in Mississippi since the days of the gas chamber.
Text messaging while driving is officially off-limits in Louisiana.
A Pineville woman has been reunited with the dog she credits with saving her life.
The 146 acres leased by FEMA at the city airport for $25,000 a month to store trailers for victims of natural disasters isn't enough to meet the agency's needs, so the city board has approved rental of 85 more acres for an additional $5,000 monthly.
NEW ORLEANS - An area of moderate drought in southwest Mississippi has dissipated, but abnormally dry conditions now cover much of the state, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Two large pharmaceutical companies said Thursday they will appeal a jury verdict ordering them to pay more than $114 million for overcharging the state's Medicaid program for prescription drugs.
Mississippi lawmakers return to the capital next week to continue wrangling over the Medicaid budget in their on-again, off-again special session.
Attorneys for Mississippi death row inmate Dale Leo Bishop are asking for a stay of his scheduled July 23 execution.
It took two votes Thursday for the Mississippi Senate to pass a liquor-law exemption for a downtown Jackson entertainment district.
Police say a suspect in a triple shooting in Florida is behind bars after bragging about being featured on the Web site for the "America's Most Wanted" television show.
Tropical Storm Bertha has formed in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa.
A bill making it a crime to try to intimidate people by using a hangman's noose, long a symbol of racial lynchings in the Old South, was signed by Gov. Bobby Jindal, his office said Thursday.
BRANDON -Rankin County Sheriff Ronnie Pennington said a girl bound and gagged herself near the Ross Barnett Reservoir on Monday afternoon as part of a hoax.
