By Nick Kenney - bio | email

OLIVE BRANCH, MS (WMC-TV) - Rental scams are nothing new, but a post on the Olive Branch Police Department's Facebook page says the scam is being tweaked with a twist that makes it hard to identify.

According to Randy Hutchinson of the Better Business Bureau, the scam is the first of its type in the Mid-South.

"We've heard of similar scams, but this is the first time the crooks have actually been able to get you into the house, which makes it seems more legit," he said.

Mid-Southerners will have the chance to fly in a plane that helped change the history of the world from Nov. 5 through 7.

The Experimental Aircraft Association's vintage B-17 bomber will be at the Olive Branch Airport. Visitors will be able to take tours of the plane and take a flight in the war bird.

While the EAA’s plane, nicknamed Aluminum Overcast, never saw combat in World War II, it’s flown more than a million miles since it was built in 1945.

“Aluminum Overcast proudly carries the colors of the 398th Bomb Group of World War II, which flew hundreds of missions over Nazi-held territory during the war,” the EAA says.

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The Mississippi Department of Transportation says that northern district commissioner Bill Minor has died. He was 68.

MDOT spokeswoman Carrie Adams says Minor was pronounced dead at 9:15 a.m. Monday at Biloxi Regional Medical Center. He had been attending a national transportation conference in Biloxi.

Adams says Minor's body was being transported to his hometown of Holly Springs, and funeral arrangements were pending.