Trump’s reference to 85 percent was for Hyde-Smith’s Republican primary vote. The general election race itself is close.

Scott Colom may have gotten a boost from arguably the most popular Democrat in the country—former President Barack Obama.

William Winter, an influential Democrat, had just finished his four-year limited term as governor, having earned accolades ...

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When U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith said she would block Scott Colom from becoming a federal judge in April 2023, she cited as one reason that he had received district attorney’s race campaign funding ...

The Biloxi City Council reportedly voted 5-1 on Tuesday night before a packed house to approve rezoning of the site of the planned Black Marlin casino, paving the way for the destruction of a grove of ...

State Sen. Dean Kirby on Thursday night opened the eighth redistricting hearing on his committee’s schedule, the last one currently set, by telling the room what his committee does and does not do.

I’m in my office alone, working. Papers and open books bloom across the floor. My desk is crowded with drafts, notes and other routine disorder related to my job as a writer. You, the bug man, arrive ...

When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Sept. 25, 2026, that the state of Missouri must run its November congressional elections on the map the state drew in 2022, it blocked for the third time a ...