Mississippi Congressman Steven Palazzo (MS-4) has signed on as one of the first cosponsors of Rep. Jimmy Panetta’s bipartisan legislation to allow the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to establish National Centers of Excellence...

Here’s a look at your statewide forecast: To the north, mostly sunny with highs in the upper 60’s. Partly cloudy tonight with lows in the upper 40’s. In central Mississippi, patchy fog this morning, otherwise...

Courtesy of USM Athletics Announced by the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame, Southern Miss senior Drake Dorbeck is the first Golden Eagle to win the prestigious Entergy Kent Hull Trophy, emblematic of the state’s top...

Darlene McKinley Thompson was sentenced Friday to five years in prison after pleading guilty to stealing $80,000 from her parents who are now deceased, Attorney General Jim Hood announced. Thompson, 59, of Columbus, was sentenced...

U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith welcomed news of an agreement that could allow exports of rice grown in Mississippi to South Korea. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue on Tuesday announced...