Honduran authorities say a television journalist was shot to death late last month shortly after leaving his station. Security spokesman Jair Meza Barahona says that José Arita was killed after leaving Channel 12 in the north coast city of Puerto Cortes. The initial investigation suggests th…

The 10th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution states: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics Director John Dowdy should pay back the $30,000 the state auditor says Dowdy owes for improper payments he received.

The Association of American Medical Colleges has released a new report of Mississippi's physician workforce. The gloomy report shows Mississippi to be 50th in the nation in active patient care physicians per capita. The report also shows 34 percent of the existing active care physicians in M…

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul has got to be kidding himself if he thinks it’s a good idea for families to take more money out of their retirement savings to pay for college tuition.

It is amazing — and disturbing — how much people are willing to spend in the often fruitless pursuit of a championship-caliber college football team.

State Auditor Shad White, in a report last month, gave the Mississippi Legislature a good way to justify this year’s pay raise for teachers in public schools.

Other than barely losing a game to its in-state rival, what changed to make Ole Miss athletics director Keith Carter so quickly lose his supposed confidence in Matt Luke?

Greenwood High School’s football team is disappointed to come up again one win short of playing for a state championship.

The four-day Thanksgiving weekend may not be the best time to point this out. But a study looking at six decades of data in the United States reports that overall life expectancy has declined in each of the past three years.

Unless you are an unforgiving Mississippi State fan, you have to feel a little sorry for Ole Miss receiver Elijah Moore.

Government efficiency is usually an oxymoron — that is, if the government is running something, it’s not likely to be very efficient.

Because so much of retail spending occurs during the Christmas shopping season, this is the time to remind people to try to do as much of their holiday gift buying as they can with their hometown merchants.

Mississippi Supreme Court Chief Justice Michael Randolph is on a campaign to secure more funding for the state’s drug courts, which he says have shown outstanding success in addressing one of society’s most vexing problems.

Whenever there’s a close election in Mississippi, there’s a good chance it will wind up in court, usually because there’s been either fraud or procedural error in the handling of absentee ballots.

The Mississippi Department of Archives and History has an excellent record of preserving the state’s history. But in considering a closed Jackson motel for a historic landmark designation, the agency is missing the mark.

Excuse us if we are not as excited as some about the start this week of the Mississippi Lottery.

Every county in Mississippi saw its average income per person increase in 2018, according to recently released federal data. At first glance, that’s further indication of a state economy that is slowly building steam following what has been a long recovery from the Great Recession.

Although most of the attention in Washington these days regarding Donald Trump has to do with the possibility of his impeachment over allegedly bribing Ukraine to investigate a political rival, there’s another battle involving the Republican president that’s worthy of note.

There are indeed some professions — such as plumber, carpenter, electrician, maybe computer programmer — in which you don’t need to go to college to earn a good living.

We’ve heard the expression that even if you leave the Delta, you can’t wash the mud completely off of you — meaning, that there is something about this beguiling region that becomes part of who you are and does not shake loose, no matter where you go.

The market for electric cars just added a very familiar and popular name: the Ford Mustang.

There is a disturbing trend unfolding at Mississippi’s universities: Fewer people are attending them.

Myles Garrett of the Cleveland Browns deserved the season-ending suspension he received for conking Mason Rudolph on the head with the Pittsburgh quarterback’s own helmet near the end of their game last week.