Georgia lawmakers are expected to try to clean up an election mess of their own making when they return to the Capitol this week for a special session.

The mother of a 10-year-old child who was sentenced by a Mississippi judge to three months of probation and a book report for urinating in public has refused to sign his probation agreement and has asked for the charge against her son to be dismissed.

A 10-year-old Black child who urinated in a parking lot is being sentenced to three months’ probation.

A Mississippi judge has cited police errors in declaring a mistrial for two white men accused of chasing and shooting at a Black FedEx employee who was making a delivery.

Attorneys made brief opening arguments Tuesday in the trial of two white men in Mississippi who are accused of chasing and shooting at a Black FedEx driver who had dropped off a package at a home.

An attorney says a Mississippi police officer who shot and wounded an 11-year-old Black boy in the child’s home should be fired.