Warm weather returned to Vicksburg and Warren County as a high pressure are moved out of the area and a low pressure system followed, bringing humidity and temperatures in the low 90s.

The Mississippi River was at 14.13 feet on Oct. 4. It was down to 11.96 feet Friday. Flood stage is 43 feet.

Warren County Judge Johnny Price ordered former Warren County Circuit Clerk Shelley Ashley-Palmertree to pay $17,459 of a $36,000 settlement that disappeared before Palmertree was removed from office by the Board of Supervisors. The money was part of funds that were ordered put into a court registry after a 2013 lawsuit involving proceeds from the sale of fully automatic weapons from the late Dr. Hildon H. Sessums Jr.
In a related matter, the supervisors said Monday they would seek a court order to pay a total of $30,062.58 owed to crime victims that were not paid from April to the first half of May — the final month and a half that Palmertree was circuit clerk.

Officials at River Region Medical Center said a patient was admitted to the hospital’s emergency room with symptoms similar to Ebola. The patient was later cleared after an examination indicated there was no connection to the disease, the officials said.

Problems involving the South Street Apartments, 1201 South Street were discussed by the Board of Mayor and Aldermen after the property’s owner and South Street area residents appeared about complaints involving overgrown grass, weeds and trash at the property. The discussion resulted in the board directing Community Development Director Victor Gray-Lewis to set a meeting with property owner Kent Smith and the residents. Gray-Lewis said Friday the property had been cleaned.

Sherman Lee Williams, 57, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for burglary of a dwelling and aggravated assault. Williams broke into a house in the 900 block of Avenue E and fell asleep on the couch and was later awakened by the 67-year-old homeowner and began hitting the man in the head with a crowbar.

The chairman of Vicksburg’s ad hoc recreation committee speculated a new multipurpose recreation complex for the city could cost between $20 million and $40 million. Committee chairman Omar Nelson said the figures were hypothetical numbers, adding he based them on the $20 million figure cited by former Mayor Paul Winfield in a 2012 pitch for a sports complex and the estimated $40 million cost to build the complex in Southaven.

A state historic marker was unveiled at Carr Central High School. Built in 1924, Carr was a high school from 1932 to 1959 and then a junior high school until 1979, when it was closed. It has since reopened as a low-income apartment complex.

Local deaths included Lucille Adams, Catherine Elizabeth Whatley Varner, William Floyd Field, Dorothy “Momma Dot” Peavey, Joyce E. “Shortie” Ward, John Allen Brent Sr., James Ernest “Red” Purvis, Dorothy Edwin Coody Stewart, Susie Ann Lewis and Leon Whitley.