Updated: 10:58 AM Law enforcement will be serious about seatbelt safety next week. And sobriety checkpoints will also be set up through the Thanksgiving holiday.

Updated: 6:28 PM Visitors from Hattiesburg took a look around downtown Meridian Friday.

Updated: 11:02 AM Unemployment benefits will be running out for hundreds of people in this area, three days after Christmas.

Updated: 5:58 PM Efforts to locate the body of Grady Everett, believed killed in a bridge collapse, had to be temporarily suspended.

Updated: 5:53 PM Attorney Barry Rhoads is no longer representing Mississippi's military interests in the nation's Capitol.

Updated: 7:10 PM Mississippi legislators will come back Monday to again tackle civil justice reform.

Updated: 10:29 AM An effort continues to find a way to get better training and education for workers in one of Alabama's poorest counties.

Updated: 10:26 AM A Collinsville man was sentenced to 30 years in prison for statutory rape.

Updated: 10:24 AM Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott will be majority leader again in 2003. He says it will be better than his previous stint in the position.

Updated: 10:23 AM Votes cast in Alabama's governor's race Nov. 5 are now official and final. The state posted a record voter turnout.

Updated: 10:08 AM Hudson's Treasure Hunt will close its Meridian store in December. It's currently looking for a new location.

Updated: 6:46 PM A no-smoking policy in place for over a decade with the city Meridian is now getting another look.

Updated: 6:27 PM The U.S Department of Labor has approved assistance for employees laid off at Wells-Lamont in May.

Updated: 6:18 PM The Lauderdale County Election Commission has certified the votes cast in the District 4 Supervisors race. Winner Joe Norwood now looks forward to his first elected office.

Updated: 6:00 PM The bad condition of city streets and drainage systems is behind the call for a $5 million bond issue, according to the mayor.

Updated: 10:29 AM Unofficial numbers reported from all eight precincts in District 4 show Joe Norwood won the supervisor's special election, 899 to 617 over Rickey Harris.

Updated: 10:27 AM Gov. Ronnie Musgrove has ordered $11 million in budget cuts, as tax collections continue to lag behind estimates for fiscal 2003.

Updated: 10:25 AM H.K. Edgerton, a former NAACP chapter president in North Carolina, has taken his feelings about the Confederate flag to the streets and highways of the Deep South.

Updated: 6:25 PM Police report the arrest of an alleged robber within 100 yards of Citizens National Bank.

Updated: 6:18 PM The killer of Meridian native and Houston police officer, James Boswell, is scheduled to die in Texas.

Updated: 7:07 PM Gov. Don Siegelman's decision to concede is getting mixed reaction from local residents.

Updated: 5:20 PM Two murder trials began this week in Choctaw County, Alabama. Tuesday one defendant pled guilty.

Updated: 5:23 PM The Meridian School Board hired a Jackson lawyer to help comply with employee requests and comply with fair labor laws.

Updated: 5:21 PM Alabama's governor dropped his demand for a statewide recount of votes Monday night.

Updated: 10:56 AM The Senate defeated an attempt by Democrats to kill what they called special interests measures in a homeland security bill.