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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Mississippians seem to be providing contradictory responses to questions asked in a recent poll commissioned by state Republican House Speaker Jason White. On the one hand, according to the 501 people questioned in the scientific poll, their top priority was inflation or the cost...

JACKSON, Miss. (WLOX) — The Mississippi Insurance Department has revoked the licenses of dozens of out-of-state insurance agents accused of fraud this week. Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney said the agents were selling health insurance policies, including some Medicare plans, and falsifying reports to earn commissions. AI used to enroll...

Meta’s decision to build one of the world’s largest data centers in a northeast Louisiana rural farming community has made a group of shrewd landowners millions of dollars, but it’s also creating tension around who is benefiting from the sales as the cost of land there soars.

Multiple rounds of rain and possible thunderstorms are expected across Iowa this week. See what the forecast means for Halloween and early November. The post Active Weather Pattern Ahead for Iowa with Multiple Rain Chances Through Halloween Weekend appeared first on IowaWeather.com .

Iowa will start holding certain Iowa Health and Wellness Plan members to monthly work and activity requirements on Dec. 1, 2026, a month before the Jan. 1, 2027 deadline set for states in the federal rule. Anyone who applies for the plan on or after Dec. 1 must meet the requirements to be eligible, according […]

Ernest Spybuck is an Absentee Shawnee artist famous for his work showing glimpses into Indigenous ways of being in Oklahoma in the early 1900s. Now, one of his mixed-media pieces is returning home to the tribe.

Three Kansas residents landed on Forbes’ 2026 list of the 400 Richest People in America, with a combined net worth of $102.1 billion. The annual report found that this year’s list is worth a combined $8 trillion — the highest in the report’s 45-year history. Charles...

A New Orleans man with prior felony convictions was sentenced to life in prison again over a cellphone found during a jail shakedown more than a decade ago. On October 15, 2018, Criminal District Court Judge Franz Zibilich resentenced Keith Kisack to life imprisonment as a habitual offender tied to a single contraband possession count, capping a sentencing saga that has dragged through Louisiana's courts since 2014.

A Kansas constitutional amendment would reword the state's voting language. Here's what a yes or no vote means before November 3.

He’s been convicted of killing a man, accused of threatening at least one New Orleans judge, and he used a cell phone to send text messages from jail to Jason Williams, his former defense lawyer who is now the district attorney. Keith Kisack has led a “life awash in...