Updated: 3:44 PM Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant says he won't block the execution of Henry Curtis Jackson, Jr.

Updated: 11:39 AM Mississippi dipped back into recession in 2011, according to federal figures released Tuesday.

Updated: 12:25 AM The Lauderdale County Board of Supervisors voted to deem a property in the county 'a public nuisance' and look into cleaning it up.

Updated: 3:10 PM The U.S. Supreme Court will not take another look at the bribery conviction of former Alabama governor Don Siegelman and former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy.

Posted: 12:59 PM A book written by Alabama's House Speaker details GOP efforts to win the Alabama Statehouse.

Posted: 10:42 AM A national coalition of civil rights and labor organizations is targeting Alabama because of the state's strong illegal immigration law.

Updated: 12:26 AM The Meridian Police Department finally got air conditioning Thursday, with the installation of a borrowed unit.

Posted: 10:58 AM An expanded class-action settlement agreement calls for around two dozen companies that manufactured trailers distributed by the government after hurricanes Katrina and Rita to pay a total of $37.5 million.

Posted: 10:41 AM A new law signed by Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley is trying to crack down on metal theft by setting up stricter requirements for selling scrap metal.

Updated: 5:05 PM Seven former Mississippi Democrats, including Newton County Sheriff Jackie Knight, are now with the ranks of the Republican Party after making their formal switch Wednesday.

Posted: 11:20 AM The Raytheon plant in Forest will get nearly half the work under a $9.4 million order to replace electronics in military jets.

Updated: 11:14 AM Former Alabama congressman Artur Davis said if he were to run for office again, it would be as a Republican.

Updated: 11:12 AM Gov. Phil Bryant told a group of students in Hattiesburg that he believes there's a place for prayer in public schools.

Updated: 3:51 PM The Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled that a jury should decide whether Hinds County is responsible for a particular pedestrian death in 2005.

Posted: 9:53 AM The state Department of Archives and History says Mississippi has the second-oldest continuously occupied governor's residence in the nation.

Updated: 11:40 PM Newscenter 11 caught up with Alabama Democratic Representative Terri Sewell to discuss her first year in office.

Posted: 11:28 AM ABC's 'This Week' will be moved from its normal time slot Sunday, May 27.

Updated: 11:24 PM When it comes to transportation, state officials say east Mississippi is being set up for success.

Posted: 3:07 PM The Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled in two cases that legal fees paid to private lawyers to represent the state are public funds.

Updated: 11:49 PM Lauderdale County officials closed a deal Thursday for a dollar. They say it will save taxpayers a lot of money.

Posted: 12:12 PM The Mississippi Supreme Court has set two executions for June and ordered the attorney general to investigate claims by a third death row inmate.

Posted: 10:39 AM Kemper County supervisors have voted to accept the county administrator's resignation.

Posted: 10:54 AM The Alabama Senate is spending a second day listening to a computerized voice read aloud a 333-page bill outlining new Senate districts advocated by the Republican majority.

Posted: 10:17 AM Alabama legislators return to Montgomery for the third day of their special session on designing new legislative districts.

Posted: 4:14 PM Officials: Amendment necessary to fund Medicaid.