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.

Updated: 10:07 AM Two law enforcement agencies are at odds over money in Kemper County.

Updated: 6:59 PM The Boys and Girls Club of East Mississippi and the Drug Free Communities Coalition sponsored a Healthy Futures Forum in Meridian.

Updated: 6:54 PM Lt. Gov. Amy Tuck told Meridian business leaders about plans and problems for the upcoming legislative session.

Updated: 6:50 PM Alabama's chief justice has filed notice he is appealing an order to remove the Ten Commandments from the rotunda of the state's judicial building.

Updated: 7:30 PM Sen. Richard Shelby, Vice-Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he will file a minority report calling for someone or some agency to face the blame for the Sept. 11 attacks.

Updated: 6:23 PM A Waynesboro attorney and his former client have entered "best interest'' pleas to charges they attempted to bribe a Hinds County judge.

Updated: 7:29 PM Reaction to a statement made Dec. 5 at a party for Sen. Strom Thurmond has prompted Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott to apologize for his choice of words.

Updated: 5:54 PM An annual safety test of small and mid-size cars show improvements in safety features.

Updated: 10:37 AM A Texas woman was hit by a vehicle as she crossed a road in Russell Monday morning.

Updated: 6:44 PM The leader of the Montgomery Institute outlined its economic development goals to a Meridian civic club.

Updated: 7:18 PM Ward lines will apparently shift dramatically for the 2005 municipal elections.

Updated: 5:54 PM Preparing students of today for the world tomorrow is the purpose of a new project at NAS Meridian.

Updated: 7:19 PM City, state and county officials discussed possible changes to tax options at Lauderdale County's Council of Governments meeting.

Updated: 5:42 PM State Farm Insurance has requested a whopping 42.5 percent rate increase on homeowner policies, in order to begin accepting new customers.

Updated: 11:58 AM United's stock was $100 a share in 1997, it has now fallen to $0.93 a share.

Updated: 3:39 PM The U.S. Treasury Secretary and the President's economic advisor resigned Friday, under pressure from the White House.