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TUPELO • Around a dozen candidates running for Tupelo municipal office have missed a deadline to properly disclose sources of their income and other financial interests, running afoul of state ethics laws. Mississippi requires candidates for public office to file a statement of economic interest with the State Ethics Commission within 15 days after the qualifying period ends. The qualifying deadline was Feb. 5, which means the deadline for candidates to submit their economic interest forms...

Close From left are Rick Moss (DeLoache Foundation), John Griffin (DeLoache Foundation), JoAnne Jones (PCOM South Georgia), Roy Reeves (DeLoache Foundation), Connie Fritz (Colquitt County Arts Center), Randy Benner (Crossroads Gospel Rescue Mission), Johnny Slocumb (DeLoache Foundation), Lane Wear (DeLoache Foundation), Beth Bates (CRMC Foundation), Jim Matney (CRMC Foundation), Cecil Barber (DeLoache Foundation), and Rich Gallagher (Moultrie YMCA). Submitted photo Staff Reports...

LIGONIER — Police Chief Bryan Shearer brought a little show-and-tell to the city council meeting Monday night with the demonstration of the city’s new body cameras for officers.

BOISE — Local governments were told no and industrial hemp was put on hold Wednesday, during a busy day at the Idaho Legislature.

Former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s hand-picked successor for the legislative seat he held for a half-century resigned Wednesday, just three days after being appointed and hours after Madigan called

Ten people filed for 12 of the 20 town and six school positions opening up. One person who is not running for re-election, Town Moderator Deborah Fauver, shared in an email Tuesday that while “I’ve decided not to run again, but I have recruited a great replacement. Then she added mysteriously: “You’ll have to wait for the sign-up period to find out who it is.” That person is attorney Chris Meier, a partner with Cooper Cargill Chant in North Conway, which is the same fir...

(The Center Square) – As Maine looks to shift toward more wind, solar power and other renewable energy, state regulators are looking at ways to modernize the states electric grid.

CONWAY — Incumbent selectmen John Colbath and Steve Porter both say they will seek a third three-year term on the board of selectmen and in separate interviews touted their achievements

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ budget wouldn’t be worth the paper it’s printed on without a hoped-for multi-billion dollar injection of federal government cash into state education, health care, unemployment benefits and

In an astonishing display of ignorance of our nation’s and our state’s core values, 27 Republican lawmakers endorsed a letter this week asking Tennessee’s public universities to adopt policies prohibiting