TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A Kansas Senate panel will consider a measure aimed at banning discrimination against gun dealers and manufacturers. The measure would function like laws that prevent religious or racial discrimination and allow gun dealers to sue when…
VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) - Vicksburg police officers will soon start using body cameras in the line of duty. The Vicksburg Post reports the Board of Mayor and Aldermen accepted a policy and procedure on the use of body cameras during…
PICAYUNE, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi authorities say a gun shop owner and his 17-year-old son died in a shootout over a $25 service charge. Another man and his 29-year-old son are hospitalized. Pearl River County Sheriff David Allison tells news…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - More people died from gunshots than car accidents in Tennessee during 2014. The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports the Violence Policy Center has produced a study comparing gun and car deaths across the nation in 2014.…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Officials at Memphis International Airport are pointing to signs of a turnaround following a downsizing in operations. The Commercial Appeal reports that in terms of scheduled flights, Memphis is among the top 10 highest-growth airports of…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - A cabinet secretary in Gov. Matt Bevin's administration wants elected officials to rebid a multi-million-dollar workforce training grant. The Lexington Herald-Leader (reports the grant was awarded to the Bluegrass Area Development District in early January. State…
GEORGETOWN, Ky. (AP) - Fire destroyed a barn at a Kentucky farm for retired thoroughbreds, but officials say no horses were in the structure at the time. The building lost in the early Saturday fire, according to media reports, was…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Tennessee lawmaker who narrowly escaped being ousted from House leadership earlier this month is resigning as majority whip. Republican state Rep. Jeremy Durham of Franklin told colleagues of his decision on Sunday. The move comes…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Officials say crews are using snow plows and salt trucks to clear roads in Nashville, which saw its heaviest snowfall in about 20 years as a winter storm passed through Tennessee. Nashville Mayor Megan Barry told…
STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi State has hired former Southern California assistant Peter Sirmon to be its defensive coordinator. The 38-year-old Sirmon was at USC for two seasons and was the associate head coach, recruiting coordinator and linebackers coach. He…
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) - The Lamar County School Board is looking for someone to join its ranks. A vacancy occurred after District B member Steve Lampton's election to the Lamar County Board of Supervisors. Lampton's district covers parts of Purvis…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A judge has again delayed sentencing for former Mississippi Corrections Commissioner Christopher Epps and two men who admitted to bribing Epps. U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate on Friday put off sentencing hearings that had been…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The Federal Emergency Management Agency has declared three more Mississippi counties eligible for individual assistance after Dec. 23 tornadoes killed 11 people in the state. FEMA on Friday said people living in Monroe, Panola and Prentiss…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A special election to fill a state Senate seat in parts of Madison and Hinds County is set for March 8. Gov. Phil Bryant set the nonpartisan election Friday. A runoff, if needed would be on…
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) - A Stennis Space Center official has confirmed a contractor change will lead to layoffs at the NASA facility in Mississippi's Hancock County. WLOX-TV reports a new company will take over the operations and maintenance…
ABERDEEN, Miss. (AP) - Monroe County supervisors have approved a raise for some elected officials, including themselves. WCBI-TV reports now that the county's total assessed value is more than $300 million, state law allows for some elected officials to get…
WAYNESBORO, Miss. (AP) - Bond has been set for a Wayne County pastor accused of sexual misconduct. WDAM-TV reports Christopher Beam made his initial appearance in court on Thursday, and his bond was set at $100,000 per count which totaled…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Officials are postponing an event scheduled for Saturday to mark the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which abolished slavery. The delay is due to the winter storm passing…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - The highest court in Kansas has struck down a Wichita voter-approved ordinance that reduces penalties for possessing small amounts of marijuana. The Kansas Supreme Court issued its ruling Friday. The case has been closely watched by…
TUPELO, Miss. (AP) - A Tupelo restaurateur couple has been jailed on fraud charges. Media outlets report that 44-year-old Lisa Alexander and 44-year-old Jesse Alexander were arrested Tuesday and charged with false pretense. They are accused of selling a house…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A Kansas Senate committee chairman has imposed a dress code that prohibits women testifying on an elections or ethics bill from wearing certain clothing while establishing no wardrobe restrictions exclusively for men. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports…
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) - The City of Hattiesburg has stopped paying fines to the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality over its wastewater treatment plan. Local media outlets report the Hattiesburg City Council and Mayor Johnny DuPree received a letter from…
PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) - Resentencing has been scheduled for a Jackson County man in the 1994 beating deaths of four family members. The Sun Herald reports Stephen Virgil McGilberry is scheduled for resentencing Nov. 14. He was in Jackson County…
PIKEVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Family members of two people who killed themselves last year are suing the Social Security Administration, saying that the government's decision to end disability checks for hundreds of eastern Kentucky residents played a substantial role in…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) - UK HealthCare and the Cincinnati Children's Hospital finalized an agreement that will bring some pediatric heart surgeries back to the University of Kentucky after a nearly four-year absence. The health care systems said in a news…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Metro Nashville police say a man has turned himself in after fatally stabbing his wife, who was a doctor at the Metro Public Health Department. The Metro Nashville Police Department said in a news release that…
STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) - Starkville's main commercial artery, Highway 12, is considered one of north Mississippi's most dangerous roads. Northern District Transportation Commissioner Mike Tagert tells The Commercial Dispatch the Mississippi Department of Transportation officials hope to curb its high…
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - A 56-year-old Mississippi doctor has been sentenced to prison and fined $10,000 for his role in a prescription-pill ring at a Waveland clinic. The Sun Herald reports Dr. Steve Morris III was sentenced to 37 months…
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - A total of 193 students registered to vote after Harrison County's new circuit clerk spoke to nearly 300 seniors at Harrison Central High School. Connie Ladner tells The Sun Herald it was her second visit on…
LIBERTY, Miss. (AP) - Fire investigators are trying to determine what caused a fire that destroyed a Pentecostal church in Liberty. Liberty Rural Volunteer Fire Department Chief Murry Toney, who is also the Amite County arson investigator, says there was…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - An Alabama federal judge has sentenced a man to about a year behind bars for stealing roughly $72,000 from Target stores across nine states. The Montgomery Advertiser reports Chavito Ferguson was sentenced Thursday to 12 months…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - A Jackson County couple is thanking two sheriff's deputies who helped save their 8-day-old girl's life. The Jackson County Sheriff's Office says in a statement that deputies Nathan Fisher and Chris Pitalo rushed to Larry and…
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Fisheries officials say the fall shrimp season will close on Monday in state waters close to shore. The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries announced that the shrimp season will close in remaining state inside…
FRANKLIN, Tenn. (AP) - Three Williamson County ministers are seeking to invalidate portions of Tennessee's marriage statute. A lawsuit filed Thursday notes Tennessee law requires marriage license applicants to be male and female. Last year's U.S. Supreme Court decision struck…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky officials say the state's unemployment rate increased at the end of last year. The state Office of Employment and Training said Thursday that the preliminary jobless rate in December rose to 5.3 percent from a…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Bourbon tourism is on a record-setting pace in Kentucky as more people visit the state's distilleries. The Kentucky Distillers' Association says nearly 900,000 guests visited the Kentucky Bourbon Trail and Kentucky Bourbon Trail Craft Tour in…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Kentucky's new education commissioner says the statewide system of assessing student achievement remains "a work in progress." Commissioner Stephen Pruitt also revealed some changes to state standards. He says calculus will be added to math standards,…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - Republican U.S. Rep. Andy Barr will face a different Democratic challenger in November from the one who ran in 2014, but the strategy appears to be the same. Nancy Jo Kemper, a United Church of Christ…
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) - The Kentucky state legislature has cancelled its Friday session because of the threat of winter weather. The National Weather Service is predicting as much as 14 inches of snow could fall on Kentucky's capital city on…
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - State Sen. Josh Harkins plans to introduce a bill to remove the current board that operates Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport. Harkins, a Republican from Flowood, tells The Clarion-Ledger he first became concerned with airport operations…
OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (AP) - The University of Southern Mississippi saw an increase in research funding last year. The Sun Herald reports the university received nearly $73 million in external funding for research during fiscal year 2015 - a 24.1…
BILOX, Miss. (AP) - The first phase of the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources' emergency oyster recovery program has ended with 40,000 sacks of oysters successfully relocated within three days. DMR Executive Director Jamie Miller said in a news release…
STANFORD, Ky. (AP) - The daughter of a man who was fatally hit by a Stanford police cruiser last year has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the officer, the police chief, the mayor and the city of Stanford. The…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Authorities say a body found in Oldham County has been identified as a missing UPS pilot who was last seen alive in May. Lt. Todd Kessinger of the Louisville Metro Police homicide unit tells local media…
PURVIS, Miss. (AP) - The future of Baxterville School's grades 6-8 will be decided during the Lamar County School Board's next meeting. The Hattiesburg American reports the school board will vote on a proposal to transfer Baxterville sixth- through eighth-graders…
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A Clarksville man is accused of raping two women after he caught them shoplifting from a Dollar General store. The Clarksville Police Department said in a news release Wednesday that 38-year-old Robert Lindlau caught two women…
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) - Biloxi City Councilman Paul Tisdale says he needs more time to review the proposed increase to water and sewer rates to determine how they will affect residents. The Sun Herald reports (http://bit.ly/1OI6fPW) the city council unanimously…
D'IBERVILLE, Miss. (AP) - The Dec. 9 opening of Scarlet Pearl Casino in D'Iberville helped push the Mississippi coast casinos to $1.14 billion in gross casino revenue for the year, squeaking revenue past the 2009 total of $1.11 billion. It…
D'IBERVILLE, Miss. (AP) - Nearly a year after city officials agreed to sell the Ocean Expo site along Interstate 10 back to Ramco Real Estate, the deal still hasn't closed. The Sun Herald reports (http://bit.ly/1PGHvqZ) the city council on Tuesday…
BOLTON, Miss. (AP) - The City of Durant has been approved for a $1.7 million loan and a $3.8 million grant to help rehabilitate its sewer system. U.S. Rep. Bennie G. Thompson, in a news release Wednesday, said the funds…
