Ellington

Gov. Haley Barbour signed a bill last week to change the names of many of the state's highways. Mississippi Highway 552 will be named after longtime Alcorn State University educator Walter Washington. Another highway in Coldwater, Miss., will honor Martin Luther King Jr.

Other highway designees include Sgt. Todd Partridge, who served and died in Iraq, and Chaplain Clark Poling, who served at Camp Shelby in Hattiesburg during World War 11 and posthumously won a Purple Heart.