From the Wire

Effort to Strip Confederate Emblem Off State Flag is Failing An effort to erase the Confederate battle emblem from Mississippi's flag is failing because sponsors haven't collected enough signatures to put an initiative on the 2018 ballot.
Trump Says He Never Met Some Accusers; Pence Claims Evidence Donald Trump contends he doesn't know and never even met some of the women accusing him of sexual assault, and his running mate said Friday the campaign is working on producing evidence that the claims are false.
US Removes Limits on Bringing in Cuban Rum, Cigars The Obama administration announced Friday it is eliminating a $100 limit on the value of Cuban rum and cigars that American travelers can bring back from the island.
Lower Judge to Decide if Death Row Inmate Gets New Lawyer The Mississippi Supreme Court says a circuit judge should decide whether a man facing the death penalty needs new lawyers in state court.
Though Voters Dumped Him, Supreme Court Removes Judge Anyway The Mississippi Supreme Court is ratifying the removal from office of a Madison County judge, even though voters already defeated him in 2015.
District Ready to Merge Schools, but Would Shut Black School A Mississippi school district says it's ready to stop fighting a plan to merge historically black and white schools. But the district's willingness to act comes at a cost — closing historically black schools.
Police: Man with Assault Rifle, Body Armor Shot 2 Officers A man wearing body armor and armed with an assault rifle shot two Boston police officers who were responding to a report of a domestic disturbance, before being shot and killed by other officers, police said.
2016 Race Devolves into Ugly Fight Over Treatment of Women Already deeply divisive, America's campaign for president is quickly devolving into an ugly fight over who has treated women worse: Donald Trump, whose White House bid is floundering, or former President Bill Clinton, who isn't on the ballot.
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right: Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Lit Singer-songwriter Bob Dylan won the 2016 Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday, a stunning announcement that for the first time bestowed the prestigious award on a musician for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition."
Mississippi Center to Note Roosevelt's 1902 Teddy Bear Hunt The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is starting construction of a visitor's center for seven wildlife refuges in the Mississippi Delta.
Water Pollution Permit for Kemper Power Plant Reissued State officials are affirming a permit that allows Mississippi Power Co.'s Kemper County power plant to discharge water into a creek during high rainfall.
Court Seems Favorable to Defendant Claiming Jury Race Bias The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed likely to rule that racial bias in the jury room provides a limited basis for breaching the centuries-old legal principle of secrecy in jury deliberations.
Revamp of Mississippi Education Funding Formula Proposed Mississippi's Republican legislative leaders say they want to rewrite the state's education funding formula to put more money into the classroom and less into administrative expenses.
Obama Says US Working with Companies to Send Humans to Mars President Barack Obama says the United States is partnering with commercial companies to build "new habitats" to try to send humans safely to Mars within two decades.
Trump Assails Ryan for Ditching Him, Battles for GOP Support Four weeks before Election Day, Donald Trump battled on Tuesday to keep the Republican Party in line, leveling fresh criticism at GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan for effectively abandoning hopes of Trump winning the White House.