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Roger Wicker lost only nine counties, but all of those counties were within a figurative stone’s throw of his longtime home in Lee County.

Georgia's plan, like one being considered in Mississippi, misses out on hundreds of millions of federal dollars that could cover health care costs for thousands.

House and Senate lawmakers in the final weeks of the legislative session will try to reach agreement on the vastly different proposals.

Attorney General's lawyers want to re-prosecute a north Mississippi man that a judge acquitted in a near fatal stabbing.

The litigation marks a peculiar scenario where the national and state Republican parties have filed suit over a law that passed a GOP-dominated Legislature and was signed into law by Republican Gov. Tate Reeves. 

Gov. Tate Reeves' IHL board nominees exclude alumni from HBCU schools and MUW.

Mississippi Today is pleased to announce Geoff Pender as Politics and Government Editor. He will oversee the newsroom's politics reporting.

The bill would give the Jackson casino developer unprecedented preferential treatment, including state financial support and opening one specific site in a county that otherwise doesn't have legal gambling.

Editorial: Mississippi lawmakers should heed the advice of Gov. Roy Cooper, who fought for years to expand Medicaid in North Carolina.

When the bill was passed five years ago, it was touted as a method to help foster children and to save the state money by keeping them out of the state foster care system.