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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HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division in Pascagoula hosted U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Karsten Heckl and other officers on March 18 for a meeting with facility leadership and a shipyard tour.
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The Citizens Bank recently announced two leadership additions.
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Elbert R. Hilliard, who led the Mississippi Department of Archives and History from 1973 to 2004 and established a grant program to preserve courthouses and other historical buildings, has died. He was 87.
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Mississippi coach Chris Beard has agreed to a new contract amid a debut season when he won his first 13 games.
Sex would be defined as binary under a bill passed Wednesday by Mississippi House lawmakers following the lead of Republican-controlled legislatures around the country that are aiming to restrict the legal recognition of transgender identities.
A push to revive Mississippi's ballot initiative process is in peril as proposals are receiving weak support from Senate Republicans, and the House and Senate are pushing significantly different plans.
A proposal to merge one of Mississippi's smallest universities into one of its largest ones died Wednesday in the state Senate.
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump clinched their parties' presidential nominations Tuesday with decisive victories in a slate of low-profile primaries, setting up a general election rematch that many voters do not want.
Mississippians voted in party primaries Tuesday for all four of the state's U.S. House seats and one U.S. Senate seat.
For the second year in a row, the Mississippi Senate has passed a bill that would transfer control of the state capital city's troubled water system to a regional board.
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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