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New Orleans Mayor Landrieu named recipient of JFK Profile in Courage Award

New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu has been named the 2018 winner of the John F. Kennedy Profile in ...

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Retired justice urges repeal of Second Amendment

Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens is calling for the repeal of the Second Amendment to allow ...

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Mississippi jobless rate and payrolls again hit new records

Mississippi's jobless rate again set a new low in February, while employer payrolls set a new high.

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Louisiana cafeteria worker who helped officer subdue man honored for heroism

A Louisiana school cafeteria worker who saw a police officer struggling with a suspect and helped the officer ...

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Louisiana senators won’t remove gender from marriage laws

Louisiana senators refused Monday to eliminate gender-specific terms from state marriage laws in response to the 2015 U.S. ...

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Complaint filed against super PAC related to Senate candidate Chris McDaniel

A nonpartisan group says in a complaint to the Federal Election Commission that a super PAC has been ...

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Governor Bryant signs law meant to cut Mississippi jail population

Gov. Phil Bryant has signed a bill that will require Mississippi officials to study sentencing disparities and juvenile ...

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Alcorn president named Mississippi’s first black higher education commissioner

The first-ever African American has been named to oversee Mississippi's eight public universities.

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In Brookhaven ceremony, governor appoints Agriculture Commissioner Cindy Hyde-Smith to Senate seat

The governor of Mississippi appointed state Agriculture Commissioner Cindy Hyde-Smith on Wednesday to succeed fellow Republican Thad Cochran ...

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Mississippi Walmart ousts 3 men with rifle, handgun, machete

The states of Georgia and Mississippi have open-carry laws, meaning licensed gun owners can go around in public ...

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Louisiana senator responds to pet death, criticized for being more concerned about dogs than children

A Louisiana senator is vowing to ban animals in airline overhead bins after a dog died in one, ...

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Grand jury indicts four in death of LSU frat pledge

A grand jury indicted four people Thursday in the death of a Louisiana State University student whose blood-alcohol ...

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Psychiatrist testifies about solitary confinement at Mississippi prison

A psychiatrist testified Thursday in a trial about prison conditions that solitary confinement at a Mississippi prison is ...

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New Orleans’ Drew Brees agrees to 2-year extension with Saints

The rest of the NFL can dispense with any notions of luring Drew Brees away from the team ...

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Mississippi secretary of state hints at run for other office

Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann says he's not running for his current office again but won't say ...

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35 tons of catfish products produced in Mississippi recalled

A Mississippi company is recalling around 35 tons (31.75 metric tons) of catfish products that might have been ...

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Mississippi response plan meeting to be held on deer disease

VICKSBURG (AP) — Mississippi will hold a public meeting to discuss its response plan to a fatal infectious ...

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Mississippi’s accounting system lacking

State Auditor Stacy Pickering says an increasing number of accounting problems shows state employees need more training in ...

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Inmates testify in federal court on Mississippi state prison conditions

  JACKSON  (AP) — Three inmates testified in federal court Friday that a Mississippi state prison has unsanitary ...

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100 years later, the madness of daylight saving time endures

By Michael Downing, Tufts University One hundred years after Congress passed the first daylight saving legislation, lawmakers in ...

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