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MOSS POINT, Miss. -- An advocacy group says gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender students in a south Mississippi school dis...
JACKSON, Miss. – Black females are one of the lowest demographics in the engineering field. Dr. Carl Mack, Executive Di...
An ex-DJ from the coast has admitted to two counts of exploitation of a child in Harrison County.Police started investigating...
COAHOMA COUNTY, Miss. --The man accused of killing Clarksdale Mayoral Candidate Marco McMillian is back in the state to face ...
JACKSON, Miss.--You will still get to elect your local school superintendent, if that's the way your county does it. The ...
LAMAR COUNTY, Miss. – A Hattiesburg man has been sentenced on charges of rape, aggravated assault, grand larceny, and k...
JACKSON, Miss.--The Affordable Care Act has lit several fires in Mississippi that can't be easily put out. One of those i...
MADISON, Miss. – He may have reported your weather, now WLBT meteorologist Eric Law is behind bars. He is accused sex-c...
JACKSON, Miss.--Undeterred by the failure of a "personhood amendment" in 2011, pro-life activists Tuesday filed pap...
CLARKSDALE, Miss. Lawrence Reed, 22,is under arrest and is being charged with the murder of Clarksdale mayoral candidate Marc...
OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss.--A bus load of Mississippi Power Company customers were expected to take the ride to the capital city to...
JACKSON, Miss.--A child with HIV is cured, say doctors at the University of Mississippi Medical Center and the Blair E. Batso...
ENTERPRISE, Miss.--It was a tip from AOL that 35-year-old Joseph Stockman was e-mailing sexually explicit images of children ...
CLARKSDALE, Miss. – Lawrence Reed, 22, resident of Clarksdale Miss., has been formally charged with the murder of Marco...
JACKSON, Miss.--Several bills passed the Mississippi Senate this week that would protect your rights as a gun owner. These bi...
JACKSON, Miss. – It is not likely that you will have to worry about prisoners being released in Mississippi, but for ot...
BROOKHAVEN, Miss.--Nine people, including a husband and wife, are in the Lincoln County lock-up after a joint sting operation...
By: Knox GrahamJACKSON, Miss.—The expansion of Medicaid that would put 300,000 more people from the state of Mississipp...
JACKSON, Miss.--You're still the buckle of the Bible Belt and there are numbers to back it up. Mississippi is the most re...
JACKSON, Miss. – Would you go against the federal government? The Guns and Ammo Bill also known as House Bill 625 by Re...
JACKSON, Miss. -- A Picayune man has been bused in the web he apparently weaved. Michael Buckley is accused of downloading ch...
WASHINGTON, D.C.--President Obama's State of the Union address mentioned the words "fair share" and that has so...
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The President delivers his State of the Union Address to the nation tonight; and a Pearl Mississippi woma...
JACKSON, Miss.--If you're a sex offender and you don't register, you could soon be wearing a GPS tracking device and ...
HATTIESBURG, Miss.--One way to help your fellow Mississippians is to donate to the Salvation Army. A spokesperson for the org...
JACKSON, Miss. --A lot of Mississippi kids have cavities, but there are things you can do to help improve their oral health.T...
COLUMBUS, Miss.--A child doesn't have much of a chance against an SUV and a collision in Columbus has left one child ther...
JACKSON, Miss. – One out of three adolescent girls in the United States is a victim of physical, emotional or verbal ab...
JACKSON, Miss. -- The State Department of Health today is confirming Mississippi’s first pediatric flu death this seaso...
JACKSON, Miss. – They want to give you more power. That’s what Mississippi Municipal League (MML) along with mayo...
JACKSON, Miss.--A bill introduced in the Mississippi House last week called the "Joint Legislative Committee on the Neut...
WHITFIELD, Miss.--Gun violence incidents like Sandy Hook and the Colorado theater shooting and even the 1997 Pearl, Miss. sch...
JACKSON, Miss. -- There is a tax credit you maybe able to claim that could get you a larger tax refund check this year, or ev...
JACKSON, Miss.--Many of you have opinions about Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's decision to lift a ban on U.S. military ...
JACKSON, Miss. – The Mississippi Health Care Solutions Institute (MHCSI) hopes to bring more medical jobs to the state....
JACKSON, Miss.--Mace in the face-it happened Wednesday morning according to witnesses standing outside the Jackson Women'...
By: Knox GrahamJACKSON, Miss.—The Mississippi Immigrants Rights Alliance took to the state capital Wednesday to fight f...
GEORGE COUNTY, Miss. -- The group "Mississippi Citizens for Austin’s Law" is circulating a petition statewide...
JACKSON, Miss.--The creation of at least 60 new jobs in Verona and over 19,000 jobs in the health care industry-that's pa...
JACKSON, Miss.--The Jackson Women's Health Organization is the target of an expected rally at the state capitol Tuesday. ...
JACKSON, Miss.--There's no doubt that Gov. Phil Bryant is all for shutting down the state's only remaining abortion c...
D'IBERVILLE, Miss.--A deadly wreck on Interstate 110 Saturday morning claimed the lives of Alex Hernandez and his five-ye...
JACKSON, Miss.--The steps of the state capitol were full with supporters of the right to bears arms Saturday. The noon rally ...
By: Knox GrahamJACKSON, Miss.—State Democrats gathered today in the capital rotunda to voice their displeasure over pro...
JACKSON, Miss. -- Pro Life Mississippi and Pastors for Life are teaming up to “help put an end to abortion,” acco...
JACKSON, Miss. – Those were not streakers in the capital city Tuesday they were PETA members. Two nearly naked women he...
WASHINGTON, D.C.--The U.S. House has approved a bill that would include nearly $10 billion for flood insurance payouts to...
NEWS ORLEANS, La.--A large-scale federal child pornography sting that includes 245 arrests and the rescue of over110 children...
BRANDON, Miss, -- The sixth Rankin County man pleads guilty to hate crime charges from a 2011 incident in Jackson. Joseph Dom...
JACKSON, Miss. --Mississippi is not going to operate a state Run Heath Care Exchange.Commissioner Mike Chaney submitted a pro...
JACKSON, Miss.--The Mississippi House of Representatives and Senate will be seated at noon Tuesday for a 90-day session that ...
HATTIESBURG, Miss.--Several gay, lesbian, trans-gender and bi-sexual couples applied for, and were turned for, marriage licen...
JACKSON, Miss. – Although it was past the deadline, congress has avoided the national fiscal cliff. The bill passed the...
HATTIESBURG, Miss. -- Five lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) couples have been denied marriage licenses this afte...
WASHINGTON, D.C.--The Fiscal Cliff deal passed the U.S. Senate 89-8, well after midnight and now awaits apporival by the U.S....
BATESVILLE, Miss. – A Jackson woman has been found dead in Batesville after she went missing Christmas Eve. Lt. George ...
JACKSON, Miss. -- The Mississippi Department of Health (MDH) has gotten eight out of a possible 10 points in the Robert Wood ...
JACKSON, Miss.--Mississippi will observe a moment of silence at 9:30 Friday morning to remember the victims of the Sandy Hook...
JACKSON, Miss. -- Two major retailers in Mississippi announced Monday that they will be putting away certain semi automatic r...
WASHINGTON, DC -- Executions and death sentences are at an all time low this year, according to a new report by the Death Pen...
JACKSON Miss. -- Friday is decision day for states to let Washington know if they will set up their own health care exchange ...
By: Knox GrahamJACKSON, Miss.-- A recent study completed on the November 6 general election day in Mississippi has shed some ...
JACKSON, Miss.--It's 12-12-12, a date that comes only once. About 7,500 were expected to get married in the world today, ...
JACKSON, Miss. -- Mississippi’s budget writers have come up with a plan to spend your tax dollars during the new fiscal...
JACKSON, Miss. --Mississippi’s first Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Summit was held Thursday in Jackson. More than 200 te...
By: Knox GrahamJACKSON, Miss.-- The Women's Fund of Mississippi and the Department of Health are hosting a conference on ...
JACKSON, Miss. -- Two more people have pleaded guilty today to hate crime charges in last summer’s death of a black man...
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Congressman Bennie Thompson is asking the US Department of Health and Human Services to look into how the...
MABEN, Miss. -- A pregnant woman recovers from a weekend stabbing. John Jones, 30, the boyfriend of the victim’s sister...
JACKSON, Miss.--Mississippi's only abortion clinic is under fire again and the owners are asking a federal judge to block...
BEAUMONT, Texas--Seventy-one-year-old Gelnn Cook, Sr. walked out of a Texas prison Friday. He had been there since 2008, but ...
NEW ORLEANS, La. -- You do not have to go back to the polls to elect house and senate leaders next year. The 5th US Circuit C...
JACKSON, Miss. – Erin’s Law is a bill you need to look out for in the 2013 legislative session. Republican Senato...
JACKSON, Miss. -- The Center for Violence Prevention is now offering sexual assault crisis services. And that means victims c...
JACKSON, Miss.--Mississippi, on the action of Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney, has accepted the implementation of state-ru...
JACKSON, Miss. -- Governor Phil Bryant released his $5.8 billion Executive Budget Recommendation this afternoon.Right off...
JACKSON, Miss.--Prayers rang out over the loudspeaker set up by a group of abortion protestors Saturday. The group of 50 or s...
FLOWOOD, Miss. -- Despite your criticism about the graphic images they are showing children, a group of anti-abortion protest...
JACKSON, Miss.--State Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney took plenty of heat this summer when he said he was moving forward w...
JACKSON, Miss. -- The Mississippi Poultry Association has donated more than 47,000 pounds of chicken and 60 cases of eggs to ...
Chip Ward contributed to this report.JACKSON, Miss.--The Rev. Fred Luter's first visit to the Mississippi Baptists Annual...
JACKSON, Miss. –Stuart Varney, Acclaimed Economist and host of Varney & Company on FOX Business Network gave a keynote ...
MERIDIAN, Miss.--The feds are suing several entities in Lauderdale County, claiming unfair treatment of minority and disabled...
HATTIESBURG, Miss.--The two inmates who left the Forrest County Community Work Center Saturday are now back in the custody of...
JACKSON, Miss. -- You may find fewer American grown foods at your grocery store, and fewer farmers in your communities too.Th...
PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss.--Your kids may be just a bit safer today as a child pornography conviction sent 48-year-old Paul Dybas ...
BOLIVAR COUNTY, Miss. – The Mississippi Highway Patrol is calling the weekend fatality the result of a hit and run, oth...
JACKSON, Miss. -- Today we meet a woman who stayed in an abusive relationship with the man she loved for nearly three years. ...
JACKSON, Miss. -- Mississippi tops the national charts in infant mortality. Dina Ray, state director for the March of Dimes s...
JACKSON, Miss. -- It was through song and drama Thursday that Jackson State University marked its second spot on the Mississi...
JACKSON Miss. -- Infant mortality is on the rise in Mississippi. In 2011 the rate was 9.4 deaths per 1,000 live births.The Mi...
JACKSON, Miss. -- A lot of you are now questing the safety of your children at the state fair, after one worker there was arr...
JACKSON, Miss. -- A bill to educate children on identifying and reporting sexual abuse is expected to gain bipartisan support...
ALCORN COUNTY, Miss.--A child clings to life today, the victim of what cops think may have been a murder-suicide attempt. It ...
JACKSON, Miss. -- A worker at the Mississippi State Fair in Jackson has been arrested today on charges of having child pornog...
JACKSON, Miss.--Mississippi's governor says a directive by Dir. of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano usurps the right of...
CLINTON, Miss.--The crowd gathered at Mississippi College Wednesday was there to discuss health care reform. Gov. Phil Bryant...
JACKSON, Miss. -- 7,500 of your friends, neighbors, co-workers, even family members have reported being a victim of domestic ...
JACKSON, Miss.--Everybody's gotta go to the doctor sometime and that can mean at least two things in Mississippi. You'...
JACKSON, Miss. --Several attended the public ideas meeting at the State Capitol in Jackson Monday morning hosted by Mississip...
by Iris Barnes and Chris DavisJACKSON, Miss.-Several sex crime stories have come out in the past couple of days. News Mississ...
JACKSON, Miss.--Governor Bryant spoke plainly to the crowd of 250 teens at the Salvation Army summit on teen pregnancy Sunday...
JACKSON, Miss.--Forty-seven-year-old James Craig Anderson died in June of 2011 when he was run over by a truck. Now Jackson T...
JACKSON, Miss.--This is Part II in our series on preventing suicide in Mississippi. Tuesday we talked about how prevalent sui...
by Chris DavisJACKSON, Miss.--Many people in the state are still talking about the suicide of a 17-year-old Newton High stude...
by Chris DavisJACKSON, Miss.-- Mississippians are used to hearing about how we lag behind the rest of the nation in education...
by Chris DavisNEWTON, Miss.--The student who shot himself in a Newton High School classroom Friday has died. The name of the ...
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.--Ailene Lander is likely not in Mississippi. That’s according to a news release from the F...
by Chris DavisJACKSON, Miss.--Ailene Lander is likely not in Mississippi. That’s according to a news release from the F...
by Chris DavisJACKSON, Miss.--As some had already predicted, the U.S. Dept. of Justice will likely not approve Mississippi...
by Chris DavisSUMRALL, Miss.-- It's four years in the state pen for 62-year-old Linda Bush of Seminary. She was sentenced...
by Chris DavisJACKSON, Miss.--Mississippians are used to hearing about money crunches and state budget problems, but this yea...
by Chris DavisJACKSON, Miss.--Budget hearings continue in the capital city, with the Public Employees Retirement System needi...
by Chris DavisWASHINGTON, D.C.--It's probably no surprise to Mississippians that we are once again being cited nationally...
By: Iris BarnesCLEVELAND, Miss. -- Delta State University is one of 40 colleges and universities nationwide to get a Substanc...
By: Chip WardThe U.S. Justice Department has approved redistricting plants for the Republican majority House and Senate. Lt. ...
By: Knox GrahamJackson, Miss.-- Even after Hurricane Isaac has left the borders of Mississippi, the after effects are still l...
by Chris DavisJACKSON, Miss.--An executive order coming down today from Gov. Phil Bryant that says no to immigrants getting p...
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