Facing the heat

Jackson firefighters, led by instructors from the Mississippi State Fire Academy, approach a simulated Liquified Petrolium Gas (LPG) fire during a training drill at the Mississippi Fairgrounds in Jackson on Tuesday night. During the three-day exercise, each of Jackson's roughly 350 firefighters will receive training in situations that may be encountered during the transportation of LPG, or at fixed facilities where LPG may be stored.

Rally for presidential candidate Donald Trump at Madison Central High School on Monday.

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Doris Bell (center) is consoled by her nephew Mack Bell (right) and family friend Sharon Collins outside the L.T. Miller Community Center in Yazoo City Friday during a funeral serivce for five children, all Bell's grand nephews and grand neices, that were killed in a Monday morning house fire in Yazoo City. The children's mothers, sisters Clara and Eugenia Bell, are both charged with five counts of negligent manslaughter and a count of felony neglect of a minor in the case of another of Clara's children who was rescued by neighbors. The two are accused of leaving their children alone at home. Eugenia remains in police custody while her sister free on bond.

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- -Caption: During UMC commencement exercises at the MississippI Coliseum Friday, Carolyn Purvis (left) of Tylertown clutches a framed proclamation honoring her son Joey Purvis who was killed in an automobile accident on December 15, 2001. A medical student at UMC at the time of his death, Joey would have graduated along with the rest of his class Friday. Seated at right is Joey's sister Joanna Purvis.

Holy smokes

Incense smoke wafts into the air as a censer is waved around the altar at the Cathedral of Saint Peter the Apostle on Thursday during the ordination and installation of the Most Reverend Joseph R. Kopacz as the eleventh Bishop of Jackson.

Aces of bass

Mississippi Symphony Orchestra bassists perform along with the rest of the ensemble during Friday night's rehearslal of Cirque de la Symphonie at Thalia Mara Hall in Jackson.

Larger-than-life

Performer Vladimir Tsarkov casts a larger-than-life shadow on the wall of Thalia Mara Hall as he performs his juggling routine under the spotlight on Friday during a rehearsal of the Cirque de la Symphonie preparation for Saturday's show at the venue.

Memphis Belle takes flight

The movie version of the famous World War II B-17 bomber, the Memphis Belle", takes flight at the John Bell Williams Airport in Bolton on Monday during a media event to promote flights that will be offered to the public at the airport this weekend.

Education, technology and friendship

Tyler Honigfort (left) looks on as classmates Cole Waites performs an exercise using an Apple iPad during their special ed class on Friday at Madison Avenue Upper Elementary School in Madison.

Honoring a fallen comrade

Officers salute as the casket of Pearl Police Officer Mike Walter is placed into a hearse following his funeral at Pinelake Church in Flowood on Sunday. Walter was killed in the line of duty while serving a warrant on Tuesday. Officer Dave McCarley, far right, was shot in the hand and leg during the incident.

Daddy's home

Sr. Airman Patrick Jackson of Pearl meets his four-and-a-half month-old son, Kaleb, for the first time as he and other members of the 172nd Security Forces Squadron arrives at the Mississippi Air National Guard base in Flowood on Wednesday following a six-month deployment to Afghanistan.

Running across a rising tide

A woman runs across the rising surf in Gulfport on Tuesday as Hurricane Isaac makes it's slow approach from the Gulf.

Saluting a fallen hero

Firefighters prepare to raise a large American Flag over U.S. 80 in Pearl along the route of a funeral procession for U.S. Army Staff Sgt. David Self who was killed in the line of duty while serving in Afghanistan.

Family reacts to strong sentence

Family and friends of Karen Irby express their emotion as they leave the Hinds County Courthouse in Jackson Tuesday morning after Irby was sentenced to 18 years in the 2009 death of Dr. Mark Pogue and Dr. Lisa Dedousis.

Catastrophic tornado raises the roof

Chad Henley (left) and Sammy Hughes, both of Vicksburg, remove furniture from Robert Henley's cabin on Eagle Lake in Warren County Wednesday afernoon while helping salvage items from the tornado-damaged building. Rober Henley has been told that the cabin will have to be demolished down to the floor and pilings, then rebuilt. The house was one of several damaged by a recent tornado.

Miss Mississippi Joy

Anna Tadlock (center) reacts as she is named Miss Mississippi Saturday night at the Miss Mississippi Pageant at the Vicksburg Convention Center.

Celebrity Chef at the Viking Classic

Celebrity chef and Food Network star Tyler Florence entertains a crowd in the Viking culinary tent during a cooking demonstration Saturday morning at the Annandale Golf Club.

President George W. Bush visits Mississippi

President George W. Bush addresses a standing-room crowd at the Madison, Miss., Central High School auditorium Wednesday morning, August 7, 2002.

President George W. Bush visits Mississippi

President George W. Bush listens as he is introduced by 3rd District U.S. Rep. Chip Pickering at a $1,000-a-plate luncheon Wednesday, August 7, 2002, at Hilton Hotel on County Line Road in Jackson, Miss.

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County music legend Willie Nelson opens a concert at the Jackson Convention Center on Wedensday with the classic, Whiskey River, to the thrill of the crowd.

Tree slices house

A tree service worker scales a pine tree that fell through the roof over Bobby and Susan Seaney's home at 117 Queen's Wood in the Avalon subdivision off of Old Fannin Road in Rankin County.

Fetal funeral

A woman reacts while viewing an aborted fetus resting in a small casket during a funeral service arranged by Operation Save America on Thursday morning at Smith Park in Jackson.

Touched by the Spirit

Emotion pours out of Jessica Robinson of Madison during Sunday morning services at Parkway Pentecostal Church in Madison.

Highway light

Michael Fielder, of of Natchez-based Jack Dallas Electrical and Traffic Signal Contractor, levels the lamp ring on a new high-mast light along I-55 at the Terry interchange Tuesday afternoon. Fielder says that 25 of the high-mast lights will be installed between Terry and McDowell Road in Jackson.

Storm weary

Matilda Magee of Magnolia rests her eyes while sitting outside the Mississippi Trade Mart in Jackson on Wednesday while waiting on friends who are standing in a nearby line waiting to get assistance from the Red Cross. Magee and her mother arrived at the Trade Mart well before dawn and made their way through the line just before 10 a.m. but had to wait on their friends who had given them a ride from Magnolia.

B.B. King honored at Mississippi Capitol

Blues legend and Mississippi native B.B. King (center) is swarmed by fans, legislators and members of the media at the state Capitol on Tuesday shortly after being honored with a number of proclamations and awards on the floor of the Senate.

Mourning a partner's loss

Jackson motorcycle patrol officer Richard Polk (right) is comforted by another officer outside of Thalia Mara Hall on Thursday following the funeral of Jackson Police Officer Thomas Catchings.

The price of freedom

Maj. Gen. Harold Cross (right) presents the flag that draped the coffin of Lt. Matt Stovall to his wife Natalie Stovall and their son Walker, 2, during Lt. Stovall's interment ceremony at Coldwater Baptist Church Cemetery near Philadelphia Sunday afternoon. Lt. Stovall was killed in Iraq while serving with the 367th Maintenance Company.

Joining the ranks

Mississippi Highway Patrol cadets march under the watchful eye of their Tech Officer (foreground) as the sun sets on the second day of their 20-week training program at the Mississippi Law Enforcement Officer's Training Academy in Rankin County.

JPD Crime Lab

Jackson Police Department criminalists Leslia Davis (left) and Katina Robbins use a poli-light to look for biological matter on a t-shirt at the JPD crime lab Thursday morning.

First-year administrator comforts first-year student

First-year Jackson Public Schools Superintendent Earl Watkins wipes a tear from the face of kindergartner Ciara O'Reilly, 5, Monday morning as he comforts the youngster on her first day at Davis Magnet School.

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Cadet Wesley Kelley (left) receives a dose of constructive discipline from instructor Lance Taylor during training at the Mississippi Law Enforcement Training Academy on Tuesday.

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A couple walks down the beachside sidewalk along U.S. 90 in Gulfport on Thursday amid a fild of debris left in the wake of Hurricane Isaac.

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Bob Wicha (right) hugs his son, Airman 1st Class Todd Wicha, as Todd and other members of the 172nd Security Forces Squadron arrive at the Mississippi Air National Guard base in Flowood on Wednesday following a six-month deployment to Afghanistan.

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Roger Abshire, a K-9 consultant with Louisiana-based US K9 Unlimited, helps illustrate the tenatious holding power of Bonna, a four-year-old German Shepherd, during a demonstraion of K-9 drug detection and apprehension dogs from the Pearl Police Department on Friday at the Hinds County Work Center in Raymond. The demonstration was for the benefit of a group of law enforcement officials from South Africa looking to evaluate and improve their own capabilities and techniques.

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Delicia Hill, 16, of Jackson, is silhouetted as she has her hair cut by stylist Donald King of Lafayette, La., during the Mississippi International Hair Show and Expo on Monday at the Mississippi Trade Mart in Jackson. Now in its second year, the event offered education and demonstrations in salon retailing, barbering techniques, hair styling and distribution.

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Shoppers stroll past larger-than-life flowers scluped from steel by Alabama artist William F. Coburn Jr. on Sunday during the Ridgeland Fine Arts Festival at Renaissance at Colony Park in Ridgeland.

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Miss Dixie Marie Wicks waves to the audience after she was crowned Miss Mississippi 2012 on Saturday at the Vicksburg Convention Center.

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Newly-crowned Miss Mississippi Chelsea Rick waves to the audience at the Vicksburg Convention Center at the conclusion of Saturday night's pageant.

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Anna Tadlock (center) reacts as she is named Miss Mississippi Saturday night at the Miss Mississippi Pageant at the Vicksburg Convention Center.

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Miss Heritage Kimberly Morgan is crowned Miss Mississippi at the conclusion of the Miss Mississippi Pageant on Saturday night at the Vicksburg Convention Center.

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- -Caption: Jalin Wood , who entered as Miss Metro Jackson, won the 2004 Miss Mississippi pageant Saturday night, June 26, in Vicksburg.

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Belle Smith, 5, of Pearl, becomes ticklish as Dr. Manisha Sethi peers into her ear during a recent office visit. Belle suffers from a kidney condition know as Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis, or FSGS for short, and recently traveled with her family to Washington, D.C., to advocate with the Nephcure Foundation to raise awareness about nephrotic syndrome and FSGS.

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- -Caption: Sherry Osbey (center) is helped from Sherman Missionary Baptist Church on Saturday afternoon following a funeral service for her son U.S. Army Sgt. Timothy Osbey who died in Iraq when his vehicle plunged into a canal after a section of roadway collapsed. Sgt. Osbey was a member of the 155th Brigade Combat Team.

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Jason Bane searches for personal items the the rubble of a home on Wood Street in northeast Louisville on Tuesday while on the phone with the home's owner who was in the home with his family when a powerful tornado ripped through the area on Monday. The occupants were pulled from the wreckage, injured but alive.