MHP investigated 246 crashes, which included 52 injuries and 6 fatalities on state and federal highways..

Area residents get a chance to celebrate the holidays and support downtown businesses in Meridian this week

The development in the eastern Atlantic is still a large non-tropical low pressure system.

The rest of the day will be breezy and cool, but the cold conditions really move in by Tuesday and Wednesday and stick around in east Mississippi and west Alabama. Once Thursday rolls around we will be in the lower to mid 50′s in the afternoon, but the chance of scattered showers returns. By the weekend we will be sunny again, but we will stay in the mid to upper 50′s.