Month: May 2011

OCEAN SPRINGS – The Jackson County Sheriff’s Department assisted by the U.S. Marshalls and the Ocean Springs Police Department conducted “Operation Offender Watch” this month in an effort to verify all 230 known sex offenders […]

RULEVILLE – For more than a hundred years, men and women, black and white have fought for various forms of democracy. Whether the fight was freedom from slavery or equality for all men – regardless […]

SOUTHAVEN – Officials from Myers Tire Supply, the industry leading distributor of tools, supplies and equipment for the tire service market, have announced the company is locating a new regional distribution center in a 50,000-square-foot […]

JACKSON – With Mississippi being overwhelmed with severe weather and flooding conditions, the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) has launched a new website specifically for emergency and ongoing disaster information. The new website, www.MSDisasterInfo.com, features […]

JACKSON – A woman on the run for the past two years has been picked up in Texas and returned to Mississippi to face charges of exploiting a vulnerable person, said Attorney General Jim Hood. […]

News Briefs From Across The State Suspect finally arrested A man accused of attacking another man with a machete has been taken into custody. Stanley Doneal Hands was arrested on May 11 after police said […]

News Briefs From Across The State Two children thrown from vehicle A 42-year old man has been charged with leaving the scene of an accident after he allegedly crashed his vehicle injuring two and killing […]

JACKSON – Mississippi’s Attorney General Jim Hood said a nurse assistant working in Jackson has been arrested for allegedly stealing checks from a patient at the retirement home where she worked. Angela Shunta Wilson, 34, of […]