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FLOWOOD, Miss (AP) — For the second time in less than a month, an innocent bystander was killed during a police chase involving the same Mississippi department. One person was killed Sunday during a police chase that began in Pearl.

Jackson City Council unanimously passed resolution asking legislature to pass laws regulating interjurisdictional police chases after July 21 fatal crash.

A mail carrier was killed when a suspect being chased by Pearl police crashed into a Postal Service truck in a Jackson neighborhood.

Says Mayor Windham should apologize to victim's family

Ridgeland Mayor Gene McGee points to plenty of positives from the steady uptick of sales tax collections in his Mississippi hometown.  Despite the pandemic, shoppers keep flocking to the Renaissance at Colony Park and spending at dozens of brand-name retailers across the city. It’s a case of several municipalities in the Magnolia State seeing a resurgence at cash registers after the COVID-19 health crisis slammed the USA economy for over a year. “We’ve always been pro-business...