JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A federal appeals court says it is ending a long-running dispute over whether the state or the city will control the airport board in Mississippi’s capital of Jackson, apparently clearing the way for a new board controlled mostly by state-appointed members. Republican legislators who pushed for a new board said Jackson-Medgar Wiley Evers International Airport should have a regional governing authority because it serves a regional customer base. Critics of the change said white suburban Republicans were trying to steal an asset controlled by Democratic officials in the majority-Black city of Jackson. In 2016, some Jackson residents sued then-Gov. Phil Bryant and several
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