March 2012 Archive

Religious Mississippians say free contraceptives violate their religious beliefs.

Inmates at Walnut Grove Youth Correctional Facility could soon see their conditions improve due to a massive settlement.

All three pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit a hate crime and to committing a hate crime for the murder of James Craig Anderson.

"They're finding out that people across time, across culture, across nations have felt the same feelings they've felt. And these are all great poems from Shakespeare's Queen Elizabeth up to people who wrote poems just last year. They can find poems on any subject from physics to food.

Both chambers of the Mississippi legislature are moving quickly to approve a budget.

Deryl Dedmon pleads guilty to running down and killing a Black Jackson man.

A proposed $8 billion settlement for BP oil spill claims includes people who have health problems they believe were caused by the disaster.

The Mississippi man convicted of sexually assaulting and murdering a Forrest County woman in 1995 has been executed.

A white Mississippi teenager has pleaded guilty to murder and hate-crime charges for running over and killing a black man with his pickup truck but will not face the death penalty. 

The long and frustrating process of getting BP oil spill claims paid could soon be resolved for thousands of Gulf Coast residents, with a settlement of nearly $8 billion in the works.

They have gone through school bee's. They have gone through county bee's and now they are here competing in the state level.

A slowly improving economy is adding more money to Mississippi's coffers.

House Speaker Phillip Gunn thinks the legislature will function more smoothly in the coming weeks.

The family of Larry Matthew Puckett call for his sentence to be commuted.

A coal fired power plant in Kemper County has hit a roadblock in the Mississippi Supreme Court.