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Mayor Lumumba speaks to residents following city council meeting; council president, members walked out over garbage disputes

A northeast Mississippi school district is restarting classes after a March 24 tornado damaged the local high school.

The leader of the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science is exploring relocating the school from Columbus to nearby Starkville.

Evidence shows a reserve sheriff's deputy who fatally shot a man at a Mississippi church punched the victim and chased him into a parking lot.

Much of the debris not being burned from the EF-4 Rolling Fork wedge tornado is beginning to overwhelm Sharkey County's local landfill.

Gov. Andy Beshear said he knows many of the people who work at the bank, and lost two friends in the Monday morning shooting.

Councilman Kenneth Stokes disrupts a press conference following a city council meeting regarding garbage Monday.

Mississippi museum director to retire effective June 30

A Lincoln County sheriff's deputy shot and killed a person who approached the deputy's parked vehicle while holding a weapon, a state agency said.

Four people were killed and nine were injured, including two police officers, during a shooting in downtown Louisville, police said Monday.