Mild fall weather remained in the area this week with temperatures in the low to mid-80s at the beginning of the week cooling down into the 70s for the remainder of the week, with nighttime lows in the 40s and 30s.
The Mississippi River was at 27.69 feet on Oct. 25. It was at 21.12 feet Friday. Flood stage is 43 feet.

One assailant was wounded and another remained at large in the wake of two home invasions in the city.
Early Monday morning, an unidentified man broke into a house in the 100 block of Roseland Drive, forced a mother and one of her children out of bed at gunpoint, tied them up and led them to the living room of the home. When the man went outside, the juvenile managed to get free, find a handgun and opened fire on the man when he returned. The two exchanged shots before the man left. Crime Stoppers has offered a reward for information on the case.
Wednesday, Betty Robertson, 42, 523 Hall Road, was shot in the leg by an 82-year-old man after she broke into his house. The man told police he was in bed when he heard Robertson knocking on the door. When she forced open the door and headed toward his room, the man said, he fired twice with a .38-caliber revolver, hitting her once in the leg. Robertson was taken to University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson and will be charged with home invasion, police said. Her boyfriend, Carl Marshall, 55, 1846 Natchez St., was arrested in the case.

The City of Vicksburg’s 200-acre Fisher Ferry property was discussed by Mayor George Flaggs Jr. as a potential site for a recreation complex during discussions with the Warren County Board of Supervisors. The city bought the property adjacent to St. Michael Catholic Church in 2003 for $325,000 for a sports complex. City officials in 2009 abandoned the project after spending $2.7 million for planning and dirt work. The city spent an additional $55,343 in 2012 to replace concrete drainage chutes with riprap under a Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality mandate.

The Board of Mayor and Aldermen learned they will have begin making plans to replace the city’s aging radio system because parts and technicians are no longer available to maintain and repair it. City officials received a letter from  Motorola, which maintains the system, telling them the company will soon be unable to fix the equipment.
In other city news, the board approved filing for a floodwall permit to allow Portofino Resort LLC to install a new walkway over the floodwall as part of the construction of new land-based casino near the Portofino Hotel. The sire is near the location of the former Grand Station Casino barge, which was sold for scrap in April 2013.

Warren County Supervisors learned the county is owed a total of $1.6 million in business inventory taxes from local business, and the biggest debtors are out of business. One of those was the former Horizon Casino, which according to county tax records owes $271,000 from 2013.

Candidates for circuit clerk, circuit judge and two seats on the Vicksburg Warren School District Board of Trustees answered questions and gave their positions on different issues during a candidate forum at the Warren County Courthouse.

Habitat for Humanity, which began in 1990 as a group at First Presbyterian Church called Carpenter for Christ, announced it will be celebrating is 25th anniversary in 2015.

Local deaths included Roy G. Brown Sr., Yancey Frank Kackley Jr., Joseph C. “Tall Paul” Hunt Sr., Annie Ruth Jones, Inez Carter, Mae Francis Eatmon Brown, Lottie B. Williams, the Rev. Henry Mayfield and William Charles Deck.