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By: Knox GrahamHATTIESBURG, Miss.—A youth-led tobacco prevention program was held Wednesday in Hattiesburg.The iFLY (In...
JACKSON, Miss. -- Governor Bryant and the Mississippi Legislature are looking to put veterans to work, signing a bill to expe...
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Cong. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) said last week that he did not approve of the TSA's decision to allow s...
JACKSON, Miss.--The Affordable Care Act has lit several fires in Mississippi that can't be easily put out. One of those i...
JACKSON, Miss.--Sollie Norwood is expected to be sworn in today as the newest state Senator. Norwood won a special run-off el...
By: Knox GrahamJACKSON, Miss.—Mississippi representative from the 4th district Steve Palazzo spoke in a radio interview...
JACKSON, Miss.--Several bills passed the Mississippi Senate this week that would protect your rights as a gun owner. These bi...
JACKSON, Miss.--Comedian John Stewart made national headlines with his apology this week to former Miss. Sec. of State Dick M...
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Mississippi's senators were split on the vote to confirm former Republican Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel to ...
By: Knox GrahamJACKSON, Miss.—Automatic spending cuts all over the nation are coming on Friday if congress can’t ...
NEW ORLEANS, La.--Though BP has already agreed to pay $4 billion and plenty of money has already gone to families and bus...
By: Knox GrahamTUPELO, Miss—The American Family Association filed a lawsuit in Mississippi Wednesday aimed at taking do...
JACKSON, Miss. -- Vicksburg Mayor Paul Winfield made his first appearance in court this afternoon.The Mayor waived his right ...
By: Knox GrahamJACKSON, Miss.—The bid to become the second-term defense secretary for President Obama has been a tumult...
JACKSON, Miss. – Would you go against the federal government? The Guns and Ammo Bill also known as House Bill 625 by Re...
WASHINGTON, D.C.--President Obama's State of the Union address mentioned the words "fair share" and that has so...
WASHINGTON, D.C.--An executive order said by President Obama to strengthen America's cyber defenses, was signed before th...
JACKSON, Miss.--If your child has trouble reading, a newplan that is one step closer to becoming law will give parents and te...
Iris Barnes contributed to this story.JACKSON, Miss.--The apparent denial of Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney's healthc...
JACKSON, Miss. -- State Rep. Joe Gardner (D-Batesville) has died after suffering a heart attack.“He was a fine man who ...
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Mississippi defense jobs are under threat again as the new deadline to work out a deal on sequestration app...
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, a Republican, was questioned by U.S. sen. Roger Wicker, also a Republican...
JACKSON, Miss.--A bill introduced in the Mississippi House last week called the "Joint Legislative Committee on the Neut...
WEST POINT, Miss.--You will be without representation for the majority of this legislative session in House Dist. 36. That co...
WEST POINT, Miss.--"Outsourcing" your child's education is how Rep. Tyrone Ellis (D-West Point) describes the c...
JACKSON, Miss.--After nearly ten hours of debate, discussion and many failed amendments, a charter school bill (House Bill 36...
JACKSON, Miss.--The State of the State address is this evening at 5 and will be delivered during a joint session of the House...
JACKSON, Miss.--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is honored with a holiday each year. In Mississippi that means city and county go...
JACKSON, Miss. -- 150 Mississippi National Guardsmen will be on their way to Washington D.C. this Saturday to help provide se...
SOUTHAVEN, Miss. -- Southaven Mayor Greg Davis says he will not seek re-election.In a statement released today, Davis said he...
By: Knox GrahamJACKON, Miss.—Lawmakers in Jackson got together Wednesday to show their support for Governor Phil Bryant...
By: Knox GrahamJACKON, Miss.—Lawmakers in Jackson got together Wednesday to show their support for Governor Phil Bryant...
WASHINGTON, D.C.--U.S. Congressman Bennie Thompson, the state's lone Democrat delegate in Washington, has been named vice...
WASHINGTON, D.C.--The U.S. House of Representatives passed a $50 billion Sandy relief bill Tuesdayto help people affected...
By: Knox GrahamJACKSON, Miss.—State Democrats gathered today in the capital rotunda to voice their displeasure over pro...
JACKSON, Miss.--Some of you are reacting to the possibility that Pres. Obama could use executive orders as part of planned gu...
WEST POINT, Miss.--State Rep. David Gibbs has died. He represented part of Clay and Lowndes counties in the Golden triangle i...
CLAY COUNTY, Miss.--Rep. David Gibbs resignation from the Mississippi House has been rescinded. Gibbs resigned Tuesday, just ...
BRANDON, Miss.--Brent Powell is the unofficial winner of the House Dist. 59 seat left vacant by former Rep. Kevin McGee. Powe...
BRANDON, Miss.--If your legislative representative was Kevin McGee, it's time to head to the polls today in House Distric...
WASHINGTON, D.C.--The nomination to the Secretary of Defense post for former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel could come as early as...
WASHINGTON, D.C.--The U.S. House has approved a bill that would include nearly $10 billion for flood insurance payouts to...
WASHINGTON, D.C.--U.S. House Speaker John Boehner was re-elected by a majority of the House Thursday, despite his contraversi...
JACKSON, Miss. --Mississippi is not going to operate a state Run Heath Care Exchange.Commissioner Mike Chaney submitted a pro...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), on Thursday, took the oath of office during a ceremony in the U...
JACKSON, Miss. – Although it was past the deadline, congress has avoided the national fiscal cliff. The bill passed the...
By: Knox GrahamWashington, DC.—The fiscal cliff was averted late Tuesday night after the House passed the deal sent fro...
WASHINGTON, D.C.--The U.S. House of Representatives passed the Senate version of the deal to avoid falling off the "Fisc...
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Milk may not be going up to $7 per gallon, but Mississippi farmers who produce other crops, like cotton...
WASHINGTON, D.C.--We are learning that even if a deal is reached and finalized on keeping from falling off the "Fiscal C...
WASHINGTON, D.C.--We are learning that even if a deal is reached and finalized on keeping from falling off the "Fiscal C...
WTVA Reporter Caleb Story contributed to this reportWASHINGTON, D.C.--The average Mississippi family will see a hike in the d...
CLARKSDALE, Miss.—The 2013 Clarksdale mayoral race is starting to become clearer now.There are two candidates that have...
WASHINGTON, D.C.--There is a growing belief that Congress will not reach a deal to avoid going off the "Fiscal Cliff&quo...
By: Knox GrahamWASHINGTON, D.C.-- The so-called fiscal cliff gets closer and closer by the day. News Mississippi spoke with C...
SOUTHAVEN, Miss. -- Southaven Mayor Greg Davis has been indicted by a grand jury in DeSoto County.The details of that indictm...
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Mississippi's senior Senator is reacting to the death of Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii). We got this sta...
JACKSON, Miss. – The Six members of Mississippi’s Electoral College met in Jackson today and cast their votes for...
JACKSON, Miss. -- Despite the looming year-end deadline to finish work that would avoid a fiscal cliff, Congress is still at ...
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Filling the "amendment tree" is what U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) said Senate Majority Leader...
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Former Miss. Gov. Haley Barbour weighed in on the "Fiscal Cliff" situation this week during an ap...
JACKSON, Miss.--Mississippi Republicans are expecting a switch to the party today by House freshman Jason White, according to...
WASHINGTON, D.C.--The president wants sole power to raise the country's debt ceiling, but Mississippi's Senators have...
JACKSON, Miss. -- Those rumors that Mike Chaney may throw in the political towel just aren’t true.The State Insurance C...
JACKSON, Miss. -- Rep Bob Evans (D-Monticello) is no longer Vice Chairman of the House Workforce Development Committee.The De...
JACKSON, Miss.--Rep. Bob Evans (D-Monticello) has resigned his position on the Workforce Development Committee in the Mississ...
SOUTHAVEN, Miss.--The endorsement by his former opponent must have been enouigh to propel Dr. David Parker to victory in the ...
JACKSON, Miss.--A special election date of Jan. 8 has been set to fill the Mississippi House seat left vacant following the r...
JACKSON, Miss.--Current State Rep. Pat Nelson faces optometrist David Parker in a run-off election to fill the Senate Dist. 1...
JACKSON, Miss.--Reports from the capitol Wednesday said Rep. Linda Whittington (D-Schlater) has put in a request to be back o...
JACKSON, Miss.--Restaurants, other businesses and individuals will suffer under Obama Care, said Mississippi's governor i...
JACKSON, Miss.--Mississippi, on the action of Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney, has accepted the implementation of state-ru...
TOUGALOO, Miss. -- Tougaloo College Monday welcomed home the Veterans of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement.“It&rsqu...
WASHINGTON, D.C.--More than 11,000 Mississippi jobs are at stake with the possibility of a half trillion dollars in military ...
JACKSON, Miss.--Education will likely be the main focus of Republicans in the 2013 legislative session. Lawmakers are working...
JACKSON, Miss.--President Obama was the nation's choice to keep the presidency. But, Many Mississippians, 55 percent to b...
JACKSON, Miss.--The race for Miss. Supreme Court Dist. 1, Position 1, is over and Chief Justice Bill Waller, Jr. still has hi...
JACKSON, Miss.--Mississippi's incumbents will keep their seats for the most part in state-wide, Congressional and Senator...
JACKSON, Miss – Officials from the Secretary of State's office are stationed in 41 of the 58 counties to ensure vot...
By: Knox GrahamJACKSON, Miss.-- While much attention has been focused on the national landscape politically, and rightfully s...
JACKSON, Miss. -- Your teenagers have already picked who they want to be America’s next President.“And I will tel...
GREENVILLE, Miss. -- Mayor John Cox was sworn in this morning after winning a Monday special election.Cox says his victory is...
GREENVILLE, Miss. -- The special election is over, but Greenville doesn’t have a new Mayor just yet.Here are the unoffi...
BOCA RATON, Fla.--Military sequestration has 11,000 Mississippians operating with the notion that their jobs may be going awa...
JACKSON, Miss. -- You may find fewer American grown foods at your grocery store, and fewer farmers in your communities too.Th...
JACKSON, Miss.--Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant is speaking out about Pres. Barack Obama's response to the attacks in Libya ...
JACKSON, Miss.--The second of three face-offs for President Obama and challenger Mitt Romney was a close one, according to po...
HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss -- Mississippi remembers Transportation Commissioner William R. "Bill" Minor. House Bill 98 has...
JACKSON, Miss.--A former Democrat Senator from Pennsylvania is being remembered by the State of Mississippi today. Arlen Spec...
JACKSON, Miss. -- President Obama and Republican Challenger Mitt Romney face off tomorrow night in their second of three pres...
WEST POINT, Miss.--Comments by Democrat Sen. Hob Bryan to WCBI TV following a Tuesday meeting of lawmakers and educators were...
JACKSON, Miss. -- Mississippi’s longest serving current Congressman is facing two challengers in next month’s gen...
JACKSON, Miss. -- John Malcolm says some of your friends and family members fighting overseas for this country may not get to...
Voter ID law passed in Mississippi, but your ID is not required for the November election because of delays from the Departme...
JACKSON, Miss. -- Governor Bryant hosted "The Governor's Energy Summit: Energy and Economic Development in the 21st ...
WASHINGTON, D.C.--Mississippi's Republican delegation is reacting to Wednesday's Obama/Romney presidential debate. We...
JACKSON, Miss.--Mississippians from across the state are reacting to the Romney Obama presidential debate from Wednesday nigh...
By: Knox GrahamJACKSON, Miss.-- As the November 6th general election continues to get closer some college students in Mississ...
WASHINGTON, D.C.--If you remember back in January, President Obama made several appointments while he considered the Senate n...
DREW, Miss.--The late state Sen. Robert Lacey Crook is credited for his work in modernizing state government. Now his legacy ...
by Chris DavisWASHINGTON, D.C.--The U.S. Senate does not have a budget plan and that has some lawmakers calling for new leade...
by Chris DavisJACKSON, Miss.--As some had already predicted, the U.S. Dept. of Justice will likely not approve Mississippi...
By: Knox GrahamGreenville, Miss.-- Chuck Jordan, the mayor of Greenville, is expected to resign this morning at 8:30 a.m. at ...
By: Chip WardThe U.S. Justice Department has approved redistricting plants for the Republican majority House and Senate. Lt. ...
By: Chip WardCLINTON, Miss. -- Money was taken from a Clinton Walmart this morning just before 6am by a man pretending to mak...
by Chris DavisWASHINGTON, D.C.--Mississippi's Congressional delegation is condemning the attacks that killed Ambassador C...
by Chris DavisJACKSON, Miss.--The state capitol is not generally full of lawmakers in the summer. In fact, the meeting room w...
by Chris DavisTAMPA, Fla.--Some Mississippi delegates to the Republican National Convention have come back to the Magnolia St...
by Chris DavisJACKSON, Miss.--Mississippi's governor and delegates are either on their way to Florida, or will be getting...
by Chris DavisWASHINGTON, D.C.--Mississippi Congressmen voted Wednesday to audit the Fed. House Republicans Steven Palazzo, A...
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Both Gov. Bryant and Congressman Gregg Harper joined me this morning with praise for Romney's choice of Congressman Paul ...