Updated: 10:24 AM A letter to the media from Citizens Against Annexation Advisory Committee indicates Lauderdale County is paying half the costs of the annexation fight. That issue was clarified Monday.

Updated: 7:08 PM The last victim in the recent bridge collapse in Wayne County has been found.

Updated: 4:36 PM A small group of NAACP protestors carried signs and chanted "Trent Lott has got to go" in front of the federal courthouse in Jackson.

Updated: 2:11 PM The city of Meridian will be a little safer thanks to a donation from Lowe's Hardware store.

Updated: 1:44 PM Monday is likely to be the busiest mailing day of the year, with Christmas less than 10 days away.

Updated: 1:41 PM Supporters and opponents of the Ten Commandments monument at Alabama's judicial building rallied Monday.

Updated: 3:50 PM President Bush's spokesman, Ari Fleischer, called Lott's comments "offensive and repugnant."

Updated: 10:37 AM Some are saying more reform is needed, 20 years after Mississippi's original attempt to improve education.

Updated: 10:34 AM At least three prominent Republicans are questioning Trent Lott's leadership abilities.

Updated: 6:09 PM Following Friday's press conference by Senator Trent Lott, local NAACP president Obie Clark says Lott should resign.

Updated: 2:01 PM Cardinal Bernard Law, the central figure in the worst scandal to hit the Roman Catholic Church in America, resigned Friday.

Updated: 10:35 AM Alabama executed Keith Johnson Thursday night, the first in the state to die by lethal injection.

Updated: 6:30 PM Lauderdale County tourism director Sandy Bynum resigned in late November.

Updated: 7:01 PM President Bush sharply criticized recent controversial remarks made by Republican Sen. Trent Lott, but refused to ask Lott to resign as leader.

Updated: 6:16 PM Three African-American students face disciplinary action by the judicial council at Ole Miss.

Updated: 7:22 PM Property tax bills were mailed out this week. Many homeowners were apparently surprised by the amount of increase.

Updated: 3:10 PM After agonizing for months, President Bush has decided to make a risky but effective smallpox vaccine available to all Americans.

Updated: 6:49 PM Radar is being used on county roads but not to issue tickets. Deputies are compiling data to support a lobbying effort in the 2003 Legislature.

Updated: 10:23 AM Thousands of Mississippi health care workers could be getting the smallpox vaccine as early as January.

Updated: 6:50 PM Cities seeking to annex land area have to meet specific standards in order to win the favor of the courts.

Updated: 6:52 PM The 186th Security Forces Squadron of the Air National Guard based at Key Field left Wednesday morning for undisclosed duty.

Updated: 6:00 PM Alabama's next governor promises an inauguration "for everybody," but some events will be exclusive.

Updated: 6:40 PM Meridian's First Assembly of God Church plans to distribute food to the needy, even after the holiday season, through Feed the World.

Updated: 5:37 PM A mother and three children are in need of coats, after a fire takes their possessions.

Updated: 5:35 PM A coalition of military communities says Mississippi could lose clout with the replacement of a base closure consultant.