New Pell Grant restrictions lower enrollment
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - New regulations enacted by Congress in June have stripped Pell Grant eligibility from nearly 3,000 Mississippi students.
According to a recently completed study of the impact of the new Pell Grant regulations on Mississippi 2-year colleges, the changes led to lower enrollments for the fall 2012 semester at 14 of the state's 15
...3 sentenced in illegal hiring case
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - Three business associates of Mexican restaurants in Pearl River County have received probation on guilty pleas to a misdemeanor charge of hiring illegal immigrants.
The three and an employee had been indicted on felonies in federal court after raids shut down their restaurants in Picayune and Poplarville on Feb. 23. The
...Gov. Beebe, Wal-Mart plan health care announcement
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Arkansas Gov. Mike Beebe and Wal-Mart officials are planning to announce an "important step" in the state's efforts to change the way Medicaid and private insurers in the state pay for medical services.
Beebe, state Surgeon General Joe Thompson and officials with the world's largest retailer plan an announcement Thursday at
...Jury selection to begin in Ark. '02 double slaying
CONWAY, Ark. (AP) - Jury selection is scheduled to begin in the capital murder trial of a former doctor charged in a decade-old double slaying in central Arkansas.
Jury selection is to start Thursday in Conway in the capital murder trial of 63-year-old Richard Conte.
Conte was charged with two counts of capital murder in 2011 in the 2002 shooting
...Ark. AG to speak at Forrest City event
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Attorney General and Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Dustin McDaniel is speaking at a Forrest City Chamber of Commerce event in his first public speech since admitting to an extramarital relationship.
McDaniel is to speak Thursday night at the chamber's banquet at East Arkansas Community College. A spokesman said McDaniel
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