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Records Tell Spending Story for Miss. Citizens
Both the State Auditor's Office and the FBI have ramped up probes of misspending at the agency charged with protecting and enhancing the state's coastal resources.
AP Enterprise: Nixon Wished for Total Handgun Ban
Few presidents in modern times have been as interested in gun control as Richard Nixon, of all people.
Bryant Gets Bill Permanently Allowing Payday Loans
The state Senate gave final approval Friday to House Bill 559, which deletes the requirement that lawmakers periodically renew authorization for the loans.
Cardinals Set Tuesday As Start Date for Conclave
Cardinals have set Tuesday as the start date for the conclave to elect the next pope, a milestone in this unusual papal transition and an indication that even without an …
Job Gains Cut Unemployment to 7.7 pct., 4-Year Low
Employers added 236,000 jobs in February and drove down the unemployment rate to 7.7 percent, its lowest level in more than four years.
Health Care
Jackson Health Exec Touts Medicaid Expansion Benefits
Charlotte Dupré, chief executive officer of the Central Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, said the hospital would benefit if state lawmakers expand the Medicaid health-care program.
National
Everything We Know About What Data Brokers Know About You
Data companies are scooping up enormous amounts of information about almost every American.
Person of the Day
Cadet Colonel Seggie McClendon
A senior at Wingfield high school, Cadet Colonel Seggie McClendon is a positive role model for his school and a symbol of the potential of young people.
Events
It's the Weekend!
On Saturday, Arts Klassical's Music from the Soul and Poetry Reading is from 7-10 p.m. at the Jackson Medical Mall in the Community Room.
Plan Could Allow State Takeover of F-Rated Schools
Mississippi lawmakers are considering a sweeping plan that could remove more than 100 low-performing schools from local school board control for unknown periods of time.
City Elections Filing Deadline is Friday
Candidates for municipal offices have until 5 p.m. Friday to qualify for the May party primaries and the June general election.
Arkansas GOP Eyes Planned Parenthood Funds Next
Not content with enacting the most restrictive abortion law in the country, Arkansas Republicans plan to press the legislative advantage their party hasn't enjoyed since Reconstruction by making it even …
Obama Presses on with GOP Charm Offensive
Punctuated with the sounds of ringing phones and clinking china, President Barack Obama's new legislative diplomacy has Republicans wondering what took so long.
Forest Service May Let More Fires Burn
After coming in $400 million over budget following last year's busy fire season, the Forest Service is altering its approach and may let more fires burn instead of attacking every …
U.N. Sanctions May Play Into North Korean Propaganda
Seven years of U.N. sanctions against North Korea have done nothing to derail Pyongyang's drive for a nuclear weapon capable of hitting the United States.
Furlough Plans Vary Widely at Gov't Agencies
Federal workers could face seven days of furloughs at the Housing and Urban Development Department, but Homeland Security personnel might see twice that number.
US Adds 236K Jobs, Unemployment Falls to 7.7 Percent
Robust gains suggested that the economy can strengthen further.
House Revives Push to Raise Speed Limit to 75 MPH
House members amended an unrelated Senate bill Thursday to allow the state Transportation Commission to raise the speed limit on some highways to 75 mph.
City & County
Local Option Dies Again
Once again, the Mississippi Legislature has left Jackson Mayor Harvey Johnson Jr. with a local-option sales-tax law he refuses to implement.
Environment
Dirty Soil and Diabetes: Anniston's Toxic Legacy
For four decades, from 1929 until 1971, a Monsanto plant in West Anniston produced chemicals called PCBs, polychlorinated biphenyls.
