BILOXI, Miss. (AP) - The arson trial of a woman accused of setting fire to a D'Iberville apartment complex is set to start March 15. The Sun Herald reports (http://bit.ly/1nj3qx3) Circuit Judge Chris Schmidt is scheduled to hear pretrial motions…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - KentuckyOne Health, which operates the University of Louisville Hospital, has backed out of an agreement to provide Planned Parenthood patients emergency care in case complications arise during an abortion. Planned Parenthood attorney Thomas Clay says the…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Two taxicab drivers are suing the city of Jackson, claiming the city has imposed restrictive regulations on the taxi industry. The Mississippi Center for Public Policy announced Wednesday that taxicab drivers John Davis and Shad Denson…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - A bill intended to help veterans start businesses in Kentucky by waiving registration fees will head to the state House of Representatives. House Committee on Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Safety approved the bill Wednesday. The…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The number of electronic federal tax returns filed so far from Tennessee has increased from last year. The Internal Revenue Service in Atlanta says as of Feb. 29, 1.4 million electronic returns have been filed from…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Gov. Robert Bentley's plan to build four new state prisons with an $800 million bond issue has attracted scrutiny in a public hearing. Media outlets report that during Wednesday's public hearing, contractors, architects and engineers voiced…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee record keepers say the top names for new babies in 2015 remained unchanged. The most popular boy's name was William, just as it has been for nine straight years. For girls, Emma was again the…
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) - Two oyster areas in Mississippi will reopen for harvesting at legal sunrise Thursday. The Mississippi Department of Marine Resources announced the reopening of Area II "E," which includes Square Handkerchief reef and southern portions of Henderson…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - A Missouri lawmaker who tried to kill herself last year now wants to make police reports of suicides and attempted suicides closed records. Rep. Genise Montecillo's proposal to restrict access to those reports received approval…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi senators are voting to prevent the state Medicaid program from spending any money with Planned Parenthood, even if it's only a few hundred dollars a year. Senate Medicaid Committee Chairman Brice Wiggins said in response…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The Mississippi Senate wants to require political candidates to itemize credit card expenses over $200 on campaign finance reports. Senators voted 40-11 to send Senate Bill 2374 (http://bit.ly/1nixxoC ) to the House. Senate Elections Committee Chairwoman…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The Mississippi House voted 65-54 Wednesday to loosen the process for getting medical exemptions to some of the strictest childhood vaccination requirements in the nation. It is not clear whether the proposal will survive in the…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi legislators are keeping open the possibility that they could rewrite an education funding formula that has been shortchanged most years since it was put into law. The House voted 75-45 Wednesday to pass House Bill…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - A state senator running for attorney general wants Missouri to expand its "stand your ground" laws to make it easier for people to use deadly force in self-defense. Sen. Kurt Schaefer, a Republican from Columbia,…
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Citing the record-breaking amount of spending by outside groups on two state Supreme Court races, Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Wednesday he wants lawmakers to look at ending the popular election of justices. The Republican…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam said Wednesday that Donald Trump would need to make major policy changes before he could consider supporting the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination. Haslam endorsed Marco Rubio before the state's Super…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The former director of nursing at a nursing center in Adams County has been arrested for allegedly embezzling a controlled substance. Attorney General Jim Hood, in a news release Wednesday, said 41-year-old Kimberly Lindsey, of Natchez,…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - The Kentucky Senate has passed a bill aimed at helping families wanting to open tax-free savings accounts to cover the short- and long-term needs of relatives who have disabilities. The measure is a response to a…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Nashville is set to get a new federal courthouse after funding passed a final hurdle in Washington. According to the office of U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper, the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure approved the funding…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Bills are moving forward that would consolidate 10 school districts and abolish an eleventh. Senators voted Wednesday to consolidate the Carroll County, Montgomery County and Winona districts into one. They also voted to combine the Chickasaw…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky House Democrats want to offer community college tuition to all Kentucky high school graduates. The proposal is modeled after a similar program in neighboring Tennessee that was put in place by a Republican governor and…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Republican Gov. Matt Bevin's administration says it will cost $236,000 to dismantle kynect, Kentucky's popular health insurance exchange. Former Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear set up the exchange with an executive order based on the federal Affordable…
ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky. (AP) - A Kentucky man charged in his 4-month-old son's beating death has been found competent to stand trial. The News-Enterprise reports 35-year-old Daniel Antoine Cox was determined mentally able to stand trial following an evaluation by doctors.…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Longtime Mississippi civil rights activist James Figgs has died. Lafayette County Coroner Rocky Kennedy says Figgs, who was from of Marks, died Monday in Baptist Memorial Hospital in Oxford. He was 72. Figgs was a community…
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) - A 35-year-old self-avowed devil worshipper accused of strangling his roommate at their Kentucky nursing home has been ordered to undergo a mental evaluation before the case against him can proceed. The Reverend, who legally changed…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Police say a 16-year-old boy got into an argument with his family when he didn't want to get out of bed and go to school and he shot his grandmother, his younger sister and a 6-year-old…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Bellarmine University has announced the death of its president, Dr. Joseph J. McGowan. The university said in a statement that McGowan, who became Bellarmine's third president in 1990, died Monday after an illness. He was 71.…
NATCHEZ, Miss. (AP) - Natchez aldermen have agreed to take out a $400,000 line of credit to help cover any of the city's upcoming cash needs. The Natchez Democrat reports the board met Tuesday for a work session in order…
SHEPHERDSVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Shepherdsville police have arrested a man they say opened fire on another car as he drove- all while his 18-month child sat in his vehicle. Multiple media outlets report that 22-year-old Curtis Wyatt is accused of…
VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) - The Warren County Sheriff's Dept. is searching for an escaped inmate who is a suspect in a capital murder. Sheriff Martin Pace tells multiple news outlets 33-year-old Rafael McCloud escaped from the county jail Wednesday around…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Bellarmine University has announced the death of its president, Dr. Joseph J. McGowan. The university said in a statement that McGowan, who became Bellarmine's third president in 1990, died Monday after an illness. He was 71.…
NATCHEZ, Miss. (AP) - Natchez aldermen have agreed to take out a $400,000 line of credit to help cover any of the city's upcoming cash needs. The Natchez Democrat reports the board met Tuesday for a work session in order…
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - Efforts to make college more accessible in New Mexico and a handful of other states by tapping lottery proceeds are in jeopardy as tuition costs rise, ticket sales slump and state budgets falter. Tens of thousands…
SHEPHERDSVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Shepherdsville police have arrested a man they say opened fire on another car as he drove- all while his 18-month child sat in his vehicle. Multiple media outlets report that 22-year-old Curtis Wyatt is accused of…
VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) - The Warren County Sheriff's Dept. is searching for an escaped inmate who is a suspect in a capital murder. Sheriff Martin Pace tells multiple news outlets 33-year-old Rafael McCloud escaped from the county jail Wednesday around…
ABERDEEN, Miss. (AP) - A federal judge denied the request of a former Booneville attorney to have his conviction for conspiring to bribe a judge thrown out and his record cleared. In his ruling handed down Monday, the Northeast Mississippi…
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - Authorities say three Tulsa, Oklahoma, residents are accused of acting as couriers to bring 12 kilos of crystal meth to Mississippi. The Sun Herald reports 23-year-old Christian Manuel Garcia, 27-year-old Refugio Garcia De Lira and 20-year-old…
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - Harrison County authorities say a felon on probation for a felony bad-check conviction is now accused of home-repair fraud. Sheriff Troy Peterson tells The Sun Herald a homeowner had paid 45-year-old Mitchell Ramone Shope nearly $29,000…
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - Two Texas men have admitted conspiring to distribute crystal meth in Mississippi from January 2013 through mid-July. The Sun Herald reports 37-year-old Sergio Contreras, of Penitas, Texas, pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court in Gulfport.…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - The Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services has launched a new website, Benefind, for Assistance Programs. Media outlets report that the service launched Wednesday. Benefind can be used to apply for Medicaid, the Kentucky Children's…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Jackson officials have declined to declare a state of emergency over high levels of lead discovered in Jackson's tap water. Local news outlets report that the Jackson City Council voted down Councilman De'Keither Stamps' resolution on…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Mayor Jim Strickland says Memphis will have to spend $60 million over the next three years to replace radio systems used by police, fire and public works crews. According to The Commercial Appeal, Strickland told City…
SALYERSVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A temporary traffic light is being installed on the Mountain Parkway in eastern Kentucky. The light is being put up near the Kentucky 30 interchange and Salyersville as work continues on an expansion of the Mountain…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Republican turnout in Tennessee outstripped Democrats by more than a 2-to-1 margin, a show of muscle that encouraged the state's GOP leaders even if they didn't back winner Donald Trump. Gov. Bill Haslam and U.S. Sen.…
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) - Republican U.S. Sen. Bob Corker has named Micah Johnson as his new communications director. Johnson replaces Tara DiJulio in the senior management position in Corker's office. DiJulio is leaving after nearly a decade in the Senate…
GOLDEN POND, Ky. (AP) - Land Between The Lakes National Recreation Area is offering grants to public school districts in Kentucky and Tennessee for student field trips. The grants are for the 2016-17 school year, and applications must be in…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The defense is expected to continue to present its case in the civil trial involving Erin Andrews and raise doubts about whether two hotel companies should share the blame after a stalker secretly shot nude videos…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A federal appeals court has sanctioned the city of Memphis for filing a frivolous appeal as it tried to get a police brutality lawsuit dismissed. The Commercial Appeal reports the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals…
CARYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Officials in Tennessee have let an emergency contract to begin clearing an area of Interstate 75 that's covered by a rock slide. Multiple media outlets report the state…
HENDERSON, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky officials have concluded that Henderson County Schools didn't violate the law by campaigning in favor of the school system's nickel tax last year. The Gleaner of Henderson reports that the Kentucky General Assembly's Office of…
