Updated: 2:09 PM Top weapons inspector Hans Blix said Monday that Baghdad had not genuinely accepted U.N. resolutions demanding that it disarm.

Updated: 11:12 AM Former Meridian High School Star Kenyatta Walker helped the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to a Super Bowl win Sunday night.

Updated: 11:14 AM National Guardsmen from Mississippi are being called to duty.

Updated: 6:29 PM Every year, three quarters of a million Americans suffer a stroke. While many recover, a percentage continue to suffer a decline in cognitive ability.

Updated: 6:15 PM Meridian has a new hospital, designed to help patients who need acute care.

Updated: 6:06 PM Russell Utilities lifts a boil water advisory, while Kemper County's Kipling Water Association Number 1 issues a notice Friday.

Updated: 6:04 PM How would you like to be able to pour slime on your principal and get away with it?

Updated: 6:43 PM The ongoing cold snap is getting mixed reaction from locals. While it's creating problems for some, for others it's quite the opposite.

Updated: 11:32 AM After drawn-out debate and a nearly unprecedented reshuffling of the federal bureaucracy, the Department of Homeland Security became the government's 15th Cabinet department Friday.

Updated: 10:30 AM A deal between the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians will bring the first Hard Rock Cafe and Hotel to Mississippi.

Updated: 10:23 AM As the possibility of war looms, some local reservists are preparing to be deployed.

Updated: 10:19 AM Alabama's newest member of Congress, Rep. Artur Davis, opened his new office at the University of West Alabama.

Updated: 10:16 AM Meridian will have a real presence Sunday at the 2003 Super Bowl in San Diego.

Updated: 6:27 PM The Boy Scouts of America soon begins a new process of criminal background checks of its adult volunteers and leaders.

Updated: 3:30 PM About 364,000 portable wooden cribs are being recalled because the bottoms can fall out if not tightly assembled, the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced Thursday.

Updated: 12:40 PM Secretary of State Colin Powell says he's still hoping the Iraq crisis can end peacefully.

Updated: 10:44 AM The Mississippi Department of Health will release the results of water sampling in two counties, after threats were made against systems in Scooba and Columbus.

Updated: 10:47 AM Victory Bargain Center, part of a ministry to the poor and needy, was the target of a break-in early Wednesday.

Updated: 10:43 AM On the 30th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion, a relatively new agency in Meridian works to help support women who face difficult decisions.

Updated: 10:45 AM Two suspects in a Meridian bank robbery were indicted by a federal grand jury.

Updated: 7:24 PM Remains discovered in the Stratton community two weeks ago have now been positively identified.

Updated: 6:19 PM A decision on the new superintendent of Jefferson Parish schools is expected soon. Meridian superintendent Dr. Janet McLin is in the final four.

Updated: 6:02 PM The Mississippi NAACP again spoke out against Judge Charles Pickering's renomination to a federal appeals court.

Updated: 5:56 PM The question of keeping or eliminating county patrolmen remains a controversial issue in Lauderdale County. Supervisors have created a committee to study the issue.

Updated: 5:36 PM Radiation to fight cancer has been around for decades, but now there's a new way to target and destroy breast cancer tumors.