By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS
Associated Press

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi's proposed health insurance exchange is in limbo because of a dispute between the governor and the insurance commissioner.

Gov. Phil Bryant and Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney are Republicans. They disagree about which 1 of them has authority to create a plan and submit it

By ANDREW DeMILLO
Associated Press

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Arkansas has been given conditional approval to establish a partnership with the federal government for its insurance exchange under the health care law.
 
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday approved Arkansas' plans to opt for a partnership model of the exchange, in

The year just ended was the warmest on record in Memphis and Chattanooga according to figures from the National Weather Service. Meanwhile in both Knoxville and the Tri-Cities area the average temperatures tied with the previous record years.

Memphis saw an average temperature of 66 degrees,