Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Residents in Southwest Mississippi and Southeast Louisiana should expect to see low-level airplane flights from February through April as part of efforts to map geography and aquifers.

Cellist Zak Rivers performs river-themed music at Mississippi Meanderings, highlighting the river's cultural impact.

Flood control along the Mississippi River is a central piece of the newly approved Water Resources Development Act.

Army at Colgate, 6 p.m. George Washington at UMass, 6 p.m. La Salle at St. Bonaventure, 6 p.m. Maryland at Penn St., 6 p.m. Rhode Island at Fordham, 6:30 p.m. Bucknell at Loyola (Md.), 7 p.m. Butler at Seton Hall, 7 p.m.

ESPN+, 5:30 p.m. College Basketball Men’s Samford at Furman — CBS Sports Network, 6 p.m. Charleston Southern at South Carolina Upstate — WYCW/ESPN+, 6 p.m. Colgate at Army — ESPN+, 6 p.m. Old Dominion at Appalachian State — ESPN+,

Sapp IV of Mississippi Valley Christian School will be honored as Students of the Month for January at the Feb. 3 regular meeting of the Rotary Club of Alton-Godfrey at Gentelin’s on Broadway Restaurant.

The Republican leader of the Illinois House and five Illinois voters have filed a lawsuit asking the state Supreme Court to throw out the legislative district map drawn in 2021

St. John's at Georgetown, 6:30 p.m. Cent. Michigan at Buffalo, 7 p.m. Providence at Seton Hall, 7 p.m. Dayton at St. Bonaventure, 8 p.m. North Carolina at Pittsburgh, 9 p.m.

No. 25 UConn (14-6) vs. DePaul (10-11), 8 p.m. No. 16 Oregon (16-4) at UCLA (15-6), 10:30 p.m. No. 18 Illinois (14-6) at Nebraska (12-8), 8:30 p.m. No. 19 Memphis (16-4) at Tulane (11-9), 9 p.m.

Illinois is ranked 18th in the new AP Top 25 poll, released Monday. The Illini (14-6, 6-4 Big Ten) also are 20th in the coaches' poll.

Kentucky visits Tennessee in Knoxville! Let's continue our College Basketball odds series with a Kentucky-Tennessee prediction and pick.

Several states tax grocery store purchases and some let their local governments tack on an additional grocery tax as well. Do you live in one of them?