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DESTIN, Fla. (AP) — Alabama coach Nick Saban says college football is not a business that operates like the NFL and warned that without more uniform rules on player compensation only the biggest spenders will compete for championships.

ATLANTA (AP) — A new reactor at a nuclear power plant in Georgia has reached its full power output for the first time and is scheduled to enter commercial operation within the next month. Georgia Power Co.

A Mississippi grand jury has indicted two former police officers on murder charges and another ex-officer on a manslaughter charge in the death of a Black man who was pinned down and repeatedly shocked with stun guns during a New Year's eve arrest. City officials in Jackson, Mississippi, released body camera footage Wednesday showing three officers struggling to handcuff Keith Murriel as he is shocked numerous times. The officers sought to arrest Murriel for allegedly trespassing at a hotel...

LEAKESVILLE, Miss. (AP) — The bodies of two teenagers reported missing after swimming in the Chickasawhay River in Mississippi have been found, authorities confirmed Tuesday. The teens, 15-year-old Sha'Cora Hayes and 19-year-old Azavein Hill, both of Wayne County, Mississippi, were reported missing Saturday after strong currents pulled them under while swimming, WDAM-TV reported.

A federal judge says he will not block a Mississippi school district from requiring a transgender girl to dress as a boy for high school graduation. U.S. District Judge Taylor McNeel filed his order late Friday after holding a hearing on a lawsuit that the American Civil Liberties Union filed on behalf of the 17-year-old girl against the Harrison County School District. The girl had chosen a dress to wear with her cap and gown Saturday at Harrison Central High School in Gulfport. Graduating boys...

BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — Police fatally shot a Mississippi man Thursday at the scene of an accident, state investigators said. The shooting happened at an intersection in the south Mississippi city of Biloxi, according to a news release from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The police chief in Mississippi's capital city said Friday that he is retiring after 30 years with the Jackson Police Department and nearly five years in the top job. Chief James E.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — The pilot killed after his small plane crashed Wednesday in northwest Arkansas has been identified as former Mississippi state Sen. Johnny Morgan, authorities said. A family member confirmed Morgan, 76, of Oxford, Mississippi, was the only person aboard the twin-engine Beech King Air E-90 plane that crashed in southern Washington County, the sheriff's office said in a post on Facebook.

Echoes of Breonna Taylor in shooting of Black man in Georgia By KATE BRUMBACKJune 15, 2021 GMT ATLANTA (AP) — Johnny Lorenzo Bolton was lying with his eyes closed on a couch in his apartment near Atlanta when police serving a narcotics search warrant burst through the front door with guns drawn and no warning. Bolton stood up and at least one of the officers fired, sending two bullets into Bolton’s chest. The 49-year-old Black man died from his injuries. Details of the pre-dawn encounter i...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Storms with soaking rains drenched a wide swath of Appalachia and northern Mississippi this week, swamping farmland, flooding bridges, stranding people in their homes and damaging cars and residences.