PICAYUNE, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Supreme Court will decide whether a company should be exempt from paying more than $61,000 in local property taxes.

PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) — Officials in one Mississippi city have confirmed the local government fell victim to a cyber attack on Thanksgiving.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Utah woman sued Mississippi's Fair Commission for negligence and emotional anguish, saying she went airborne on a 40-foot (12-meter) super slide and injured her back.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi lawmakers begin their new term Jan. 7, with Republicans maintaining large majorities in the House and Senate. Some leadership jobs will change hands, including chairmanships of important committees.

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Another Mississippi county is shifting back to voting on paper ballots.

MERIDIAN, Miss. (AP) — A second former road worker in an eastern Mississippi county has been charged with stealing county fuel.

VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) — Military veterans are demolishing homes in the Mississippi Delta that were damaged by months of flooding.

As she weaves her way through the 209-acre campus, filled with red-brick buildings, iron fences and the 25 historic gates that rim Harvard Yard, Shakira Hall walks up two small sets of stairs.

VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) — John Ring is walking for a special group of people.

CORINTH, Miss. (AP) — A college president and supervisors in a northeast Mississippi county want changes to a law that revised how trustees are appointed for community colleges.

COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) — The mother and grandmother of a child who drowned in a Mississippi pond have been indicted on charges of child neglect.

BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — His mobile home was rotting around him and Johnny C. Owens had no money for repairs.

COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) — Mention the word "baseball" and the name "Catfish" and folks around the country immediately think of Jim "Catfish" Hunter.

President Donald Trump on Friday approved a disaster declaration for parts of Mississippi affected by severe weather that hit in late October, U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker's office said.

LOUISVILLE, Miss. (AP) — A coroner says a worker at a north Mississippi plywood mill died after a piece of machinery malfunctioned.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Corrections officials in Mississippi say they are considering their next move as officials in one county plan to close a lockup that holds state and county inmates.

MERIDIAN, Miss. (AP) — Authorities in Mississippi have dropped neglect charges against the owner of a home where a 5-year-old boy was found dead in September.

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — A new wave of lawsuits against BP is hitting the federal courts nearly a decade after the Gulf oil spill.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics Director John Dowdy was improperly paid for working extra hours and inappropriately used a clothing allowance that should not have been available to him, the state auditor's office said in a report released Thursday.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Secretary of State-elect Michael Watson on Thursday announced he had selected the police chief of the Department of Marine Resources to be his chief of staff.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A long-lasting meteor lit up the central Alabama sky this week, according to the National Weather Service.

BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — Police officers of a Mississippi city are accused of sexually harassing a teen girl during a traffic stop.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Paramedics responding to a crash on a Mississippi highway discovered the teenage driver of the car had been shot in the head.

RAYMOND, Miss. (AP) — The longest-serving community college leader in Mississippi history says he will retire June 30.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Mississippi Lottery sold nearly $9 million in tickets during its first six days of operation.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Two Mississippi cities paid thousands of dollars to provide police protection when President Donald Trump attended rallies there in the past year.

GULF SHORES, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama town is reconsidering whether to allow a beachfront music festival that has become a staple on the northern Gulf Coast.

GREENWOOD, Miss. (AP) — A city in the Mississippi Delta is taking on $6.3 million of debt to pay for street improvements.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Jackson State University says campus is no longer under threat of active shooter; lockdown has been lifted.

TUPELO, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man has been charged with capital murder in the death of a 6-year-old boy he was babysitting.

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — A university in Mississippi is waiving tuition for a professional development course in an effort to combat the state's teacher shortage.

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — A statue of slain civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer now sits outside the Forrest County Courthouse in Mississippi.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A bail hearing has been set for a Mississippi man who has been tried six times for murder.

BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) — A former Hancock County Justice Court employee is pleading guilty to two counts of embezzlement after investigators found she stole more than $100,000.

SENATOBIA, Miss. (AP) — A north Mississippi man is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of two men.

MAYERSVILLE, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi county is closing its jail in two weeks because of financial problems.

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — A fugitive captured in California is being extradited back to Mississippi where he’ll be charged with first-degree murder.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Nielsen Cochran, a Republican who served 24 years as a utility regulator on the Mississippi Public Service Commission, died Monday. He was 78.

D’IBERVILLE, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi man says his home is being riddled with stray bullets from hunters and he is asking county officials to make it stop.