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It’s unclear whether Mississippi lawmakers will seek to expand charter schools or public subsidies for private schools in the current legislative session, even as proponents held a rally Tuesday to press for action.

President Donald Trump is tweeting that Tate Reeves, the Republican nominee in the Mississippi governor’s race, has his “Complete & Total Endorsement.”

A spokeswoman for Vice President Mike Pence says he will campaign in Mississippi for the Republican nominee for governor.

Mississippi will get a new leader for its prison system in 2020.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Gov.-elect Tate Reeves said Friday that the family of slain civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer exemplifies the service of U.S. military veterans. Reeves spoke at an early Veterans Day ceremony at the adjoining Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson. He said that when President Donald […]

Vice President Mike Pence campaigned Monday in Mississippi for the Republican nominee for governor, who’s in a tight race with the state’s best-funded Democratic nominee in nearly a generation.

Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves declared a state of emergency after Sunday’s storms and tornadoes.

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant used his final State of the State speech Tuesday to look back on his two terms and to offer proposals for his final year in office.

Mississippi’s new lieutenant governor, Republican Delbert Hosemann, said immediately after his inauguration Thursday that he wants to work with all lawmakers to improve education, enact pay raises for state employees and address problems in a state’s prison system that has been rocked by deadly violence.

More than two dozen Mississippi inmates sued the state Tuesday, saying understaffed prisons are “plagued by violence” and inmates are forced to live in decrepit and dangerous conditions.

President Donald Trump is traveling to Mississippi on Friday to try to shore up Republican support ahead of the state’s toughest governor’s race in nearly a generation, with two established politicians competing for the open seat.