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Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said Friday he's "very comfortable" with his final-days decisions to grant pardons or other clemency to more than 200 people, including convicted killers — decisions that outraged victims' families and dismayed even some of his most devoted supporters.
When Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour leaves office Jan. 10, he'll return to the lobbying firm he founded in 1991
People in a struggling Mississippi Delta town will soon have natural gas service after six months of heating bath water on electric stoves or cooking on hot plates because the town failed to pay its gas supplier for years.
Defying Mississippi's conservative reputation, women voters appeared to lead the charge against a ballot measure that sought to ban abortion, and could've made some birth control illegal and deterred doctors from doing in vitro fertilization.
Republican Phil Bryant of Brandon has won the Mississippi governor's race, succeeding term-limited Haley Barbour.
Mississippians are voting on a measure that could prompt a new national fight over abortion by declaring that life begins at fertilization.
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said Thursday he voted after all for a state ballot initiative that would declare life begins at fertilization.
In a Nov. 8 report on voting in Mississippi on a proposed state constitutional amendment limiting abortion, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the United Methodist General Conference had opposed the proposal. The Mississippi bishop of the United Methodist Church voiced opposition, but the General Conference, which last met in 2008, did not take a position.
A national effort to put abortion bans into state constitutions is looking for its first victory next month in Mississippi, where voters are being asked to approve an amendment declaring that life begins when a human egg is fertilized.
Two men, including a convicted sex offender from Colorado, have been charged with capital murder in a high-speed crash that killed a Mississippi police officer.
A white Mississippi teenager accused of running down a black man with a truck pleaded not guilty to capital murder on Friday.
After making history this week as the first black candidate to win a major-party nomination for Mississippi governor, Democrat Johnny DuPree now faces the tough reality of trying to win a general election against a better-known, better-funded GOP candidate in a strongly Republican state.
Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant won a five-man Republican primary for Mississippi governor while the election to determine his Democratic opponent went into a runoff.
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour has a calm but urgent tone when he tells people in low-lying areas to prepare for possible flooding from the Mississippi River.
Republican Gov. Haley Barbour bowed out of presidential contention Monday with a surprise announcement just as the 2012 campaign was getting under way in earnest, 18 months before Election Day. The Mississippi governor said he lacked the necessary "absolute fire in the belly" to run.
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour ruled out a 2012 presidential bid on Monday, saying he lacked the necessary "absolute fire in the belly" to run and wasn't ready for the "all-consuming effort."
A Grammy museum will be built in Mississippi, the hub of the Delta blues.
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a potential 2012 Republican presidential candidate, played fast and loose with his state's Medicaid enrollment numbers this week as he spoke in Washington and chatted up voters in the early primary state of New Hampshire.
Mississippi Republican Gov. Haley Barbour, who is a potential 2012 presidential candidate, played loose with his state's Medicaid enrollment numbers this week as he spoke on Capitol Hill and chatted up voters in the early primary state of New Hampshire.
Gov. Haley Barbour, a potential 2012 Republican presidential candidate, played fast and loose with his state's Medicaid enrollment numbers this week as he spoke in Washington and chatted up voters in the early primary state of New Hampshire.
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour's wife says the thought of his running for president "horrifies me" because it would be "a huge sacrifice for a family to make."
A woman released from prison on condition that she donate a kidney to her sister said Friday she was upset when she heard Gov. Haley Barbour intends to deny their request for pardons.
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour briefly channeled his inner Elvis after a Democratic lawmaker trotted after him and popped a pair of gold-rimmed Elvis Presley sunglasses onto the Republican's face.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Monday it will be at least this summer before he decides whether to run for president again, and he'll only enter the 2012 race if he thinks he can win.
Whenever Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour has asked lawmakers to weaken benefits for state employees, his proposals have met little resistance from workers.
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