July 2012 Archive

Retailers in Mississippi say a sales tax holiday is a big boost to business.

Department of Homeland Security researchers from across the nation are meeting in Mississippi, developing strategies to better protect residents.

A new study puts Mississippi last for many child welfare standards.

"And this is one of the diseases that we really, really, really need to try to tract and see if there's a way that we can find a cure for it or a cause so we can eliminate it."

Shrinking  budgets. Dealing with disaster. Technology to help keep kids from dropping out. Those topics are on the agenda for school board members from 12 southern states meeting this week on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Some in Mississippi are speaking out on potential gun regulations following last week's two mass shootings.

"What I mean by that is houses starting in the 14 hundred range and going up to 18 hundred, anything in that range. They really really did bring us out of the recession."

Shipping companies and businesses that rely on the river are struggling to navigate its low waters.

The affect of Title IX on women sports 40 years later.

More Mississippi cities are banning smoking indoors in public places.

"We do live in the bible belt. You're living with HIV automatically people think you did something wrong"

The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to make big cuts to the SNAP program, formerly known as food stamps.

"We're all members of the human race so Black, White, any other race religion sex, we're all human beings at the end of the day."

The 186 dolphins that washed ashore in Gulf Coast states from January through April 2011 may have been affected by cold water flowing into the Gulf of Mexico, according to team of scientists from Mississippi, Alabama and Florida.

Mississippi's only professional golf tournament is expected to be a boom for businesses in the area.