When Robert Pickenpaugh was in second grade, he made a paper mache pot, and he still remembers the good feeling he had in his hands. The class even voted his creation the best pot. As he now celebrates 50 years of having Pickenpaugh Pottery & Gallery in Madison, his love of pottery has n…
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A proposal to merge one of Mississippi's smallest universities into one of its largest ones died Wednesday in the state Senate.
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Mississippians voted in party primaries Tuesday for all four of the state's U.S. House seats and one U.S. Senate seat.
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A new Mississippi law will allow earlier Medicaid coverage for pregnant women in an effort to improve health outcomes for mothers and babies in a poor state with the nation's worst rate of infant mortality.
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