Updated: 8:23 PM While it would seem obvious that motorists should stop at red lights, a thousand people lose their lives each year becauase someone didn't.

Updated: 8:16 PM Customer complaints have fueled an informal investigation by the Energy Department into possible gas gouging.

Updated: 8:15 PM A week after the Ten Commandments monument was moved from public view, residents of Hickory, Miss., joined others there, who say it was the wrong thing to do.

Updated: 8:13 PM A local effort designed to save NAS Meridian from base possible closure is continuing full-force.

Updated: 8:11 PM Officers with the Mississippi Department of Transportation seized over 200 pounds of marijuana near Meridian.

Updated: 8:07 PM The former chief of WorldCom entered a not guilty plea in an Oklahoma courtroom. Bernie Ebbers and other top executives are charged with securities fraud.

Updated: 8:34 PM Police in and around Northport, Alabama are following a few clues that surfaced after a photo of "Shae" Ross was shown on national television.

Updated: 8:30 PM More medical students are choosing to go into specialties because it offers a more "normal" schedule.

Updated: 7:57 PM A candidate in the Kemper County sheriff's race, Johnny Harpole, has formally asked to review the ballot boxes from the Aug. 26 Democratic runoff.

Updated: 8:33 PM A resident of Dalewood told county supervisors that the pipes being used on a sewer project are too narrow.

Updated: 7:12 PM Meridian residents who have hazardous household materials can get rid of them this weekend.

Updated: 6:59 PM The Meridian City Council talked about money issues Tuesday, including raising taxes.

Updated: 6:49 PM The chairman of the Mississippi Tax Commission told lawmakers it could collect millions more in tax revenue, if it could afford more auditors.

Updated: 8:34 PM A 64-year-old woman has been arrested and charged with a shooting in Quitman.

Updated: 6:39 PM The former head of the Boys and Girls Club in Meridian has died.

Updated: 6:55 PM A Lauderdale County road that has been closed for repairs is expected to reopen later this week.

Updated: 10:09 AM An additional school could be established in Meridian.

Updated: 8:31 PM Just in time for Labor Day there is some good news concerning employment in Clarke County.

Updated: 8:28 PM Georgia authorities have joined in the search for a missing three-year-old who is said to have been abandoned in Meridian.

Updated: 8:23 PM Bond has been denied for two suspects in a double murder in Linden, Alabama.

Updated: 5:13 PM Max Phillips of Taylorsville was certified Friday as the winner of this week's Republican runoff in the agriculture commissioner's race.

Posted: 8:19 PM Lamar Elementary's "Raider Readers" program encourages students to continue their education individually suring the summer break.

Updated: 8:00 PM Former Meridian police officer Rita Jack returned to duty this week after a judge ruled her dismissal two years ago was improper.

Updated: 7:55 PM The governor of Mississippi has offered to take the Ten Commandments monument off Alabama's hands.

Updated: 7:53 PM More Mississippians were working in July, compared to June, but some areas are still hurting economically.