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CHATAWA, Miss. (AP) — A historic Mississippi retirement home for nuns is closing and is being sold.
The Enterprise-journal reports Sister Debra Sciano said in a news release St. Mary of the Pines retirement home in Chatawa would soon be sold and many of the 40 residents relocated to St.?anthony's Gardens in a nearby Louisiana parish.
The downsizing comes as fewer American women are entering the School Sisters of Notre Dame, a Catholic religious order.
Residents will begin moving in August. Those needing more skilled care are expected to move in the coming months to a building under construction next to St.?anthony's.
It's unclear what will happen to a church and retreat center on the same property as St. Mary.
Suit: Air traffic control contributed to plane crash deaths
OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Heirs of a Mississippi couple killed in a 2016 Alabama plane crash are suing the Federal Aviation Administration, saying bad information from controllers contributed to their deaths.
Three couples, including Michael and Kimberly Perry, died Aug. 14, 2016, when their Piper PA-31 Navajo crashed near the Tuscaloosa airport. The lawsuit seeks $24 million for three Perry children.
The National Transportation Safety Board reported in May 2018 that pilot Jason Farese failed to switch from emptying fuel tanks to full ones, finding Farese misdiagnosed the problem as a fuel pump failure and didn't follow emergency procedures.
The lawsuit , though, says air traffic controllers should have identified a closer airport for Farese to land, gave the wrong distance to the Tuscaloosa airport and gave bad instructions.
The FAA has not yet responded.
2 killed as car flees police in northern Mississippi
HERNANDO, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi officials are identifying two Tennessee men killed Saturday in a police chase.
Desoto County Coroner Josh Pounders tells local news outlets that Kristopher Ford and Jessie L. White — both 20-year-old residents of Memphis, Tennessee — died after being thrown from a car in Hernando.
Police in Hernando say they tried to stop a Nissan Maxima that had been reported stolen at 4:20 a.m. Saturday when the driver fled. The driver entered Interstate 55 going the wrong way, northbound in the southbound lanes. About a mile later, police say the car struck a guardrail, leaving it mangled.
Other passengers in the Maxima were injured and taken to a hospital, but no one else was hurt.
Hernando police say they continue to investigate.