Updated: 5:24 PM Students in Kemper County will face trial for allegedly stealing a horse.

Updated: 5:22 PM Law enforcement sources say Virginia will try the D.C. sniper suspects first.

Updated: 2:57 PM The Federal Reserve has taken interest rates down a-half a point, catching many market watchers off-guard.

Updated: 5:48 PM Friday is the deadline for counties to certify vote tallies from the Tuesday elections. Both the Democrat and Republican candidates for governor have claimed victory.

Updated: 12:45 PM The University of Alabama has received a large research grant from the National Science Foundation.

Updated: 11:53 AM The FDA is alerting the public regarding the recall of powdered infant formula.

Updated: 10:29 AM The Choctaw Tribe signed an historic agreement with the University of Southern Mississippi Wednesday.

Updated: 10:27 AM The chances for contracting the West Nile virus have dramatically down with the onset of cooler weather.

Updated: 6:10 PM A pedestrian was hit by a vehicle on Meridian's 23rd Avenue Wednesday morning.

Updated: 7:12 PM The governor's race in Alabama reflects some of the very tight races seen around the country Tuesday. It appeared late Tuesday night that incumbent Democrat Don Siegelman won. But the totals changed in the wee hours of the morning.

Updated: 7:11 PM Mississippi's Third District Congressional race made two incumbents face off for one seat. Rep. Chip Pickering won by a comfortable margin.

Updated: 5:51 PM The East Mississippi Drug Task Force has busted two labs used to manufacture crystal methamphetamine in the past two weeks.

Updated: 5:45 PM Mississippi Senator Trent Lott is poised to again be majority leader, with Republican wins in Tuesday's election giving the GOP a majority.

Updated: 8:31 PM A suspect in 17 bank robberies over the past three years, including one in Livingston in June 2001, is now serving time in prison.

Updated: 8:27 PM The city of Meridian now has two problems at Bonita Lakes. What has to be done to solve them was discussed at the Meridian City Council meeting.

Updated: 8:25 PM A second victim of a bridge collapse in Wayne County was located by divers.

Updated: 5:57 PM A popular restaurant has closed without warning.

Updated: 5:54 PM A judicial committee has reprimanded appeals court candidate, Kenny Griffis, for language used in a campaign flyer.

Updated: 5:50 PM Southern kindness, Yankee stinginess persist in charity.

Updated: 2:42 PM Congressman Ronnie Shows made one last stop in Meridian Tuesday.

Updated: 8:03 AM Republicans swept to control of Congress early Wednesday, taking the Senate from the Democrats and solidifying their grip on the House in historic gains midway through President Bush's term.

Updated: 7:20 PM The state of bridges across the state is a concern, after an aging one-lane bridge collapsed this weekend, killing three people.

Updated: 10:36 AM In the final hours of the campaign, Congressmen Ronnie Shows and Chip Pickering make stops in the Meridian area.

Updated: 10:31 AM The Kemper County Sheriff's Department is asking for the public's help in locating a missing Scooba woman.

Updated: 10:34 AM A longtime political figure in Sumter County is asking voters to take part in a "write-in" campaign Tuesday.