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Mississippi lawmakers and officials told business leaders Thursday that they’re hearing their concerns about needing more and better-educated workers.

Mississippi lawmakers opened their election-year session Tuesday and a top senator resigned his leadership post amid questions about a second-offense drunken driving charge he faces.

A Republican running for Mississippi governor is advocating a type of Medicaid expansion.

Second-term Republican Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves entered the Mississippi governor’s race Thursday, saying he wants to protect taxpayers and oppose the values of “Hollywood and Washington, D.C.”

A top Mississippi state senator has been charged with drunken driving after authorities said his truck went into a ditch.

A first-term Republican state lawmaker said Tuesday that he’s running for Mississippi governor in 2019 as a “conservative outsider.”

A first-term Republican Mississippi lawmaker from Hernando says he will announce next week whether he’s running for governor in 2019.

State and federal investigators are trying to find out who hung seven nooses in trees outside the Mississippi Capitol early Monday, a day before a U.S. Senate runoff.

Fourth-term Attorney General Jim Hood said in a statement Monday that he will announce his candidacy Wednesday in his hometown of Houston, Mississippi.

Mississippi’s governor and lieutenant governor said Thursday that they will support teacher pay raises in the 2019 legislative session.

Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant on Tuesday issued the official document to call lawmakers into special session Thursday to discuss more money for roads and bridges.