MAGNOLIA, Mississippi (AP) — Authorities in Pike County have identified a body was found Oct. 1 in a burned SUV.
Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Steve Rushing tells the Enterprise-Journal that the state Crime Lab used DNA to identify the victim was 44-year-old Janice Blackwell Brown of McComb, the vehicle’s owner… […]
Former McComb Mayor Newton Haskin James, a white businessman who was among a bi-racial group of community leaders who worked to ease tensions during the civil rights movement in 1960s, has died at the age of 96.
Officials with Hartman-Sharkey Funeral Home say James died Thursday, June 13, at Beacham Memorial Hospital in Magnolia. Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday, June 17, at J. J. White Memorial Presbyterian Church in McComb. Burial will follow in Hollywood Cemetery. […]
A 2-year-old girl died Sunday after being hit by a car at a family gathering.
Warren County Coroner Doug Huskey told the Vicksburg Post that Carmyia Buck was pronounced dead of abdominal trauma at River Region Medical Center.
Huskey says no autopsy has been ordered.
Police Chief Walter Armstrong says the child was struck by a car driven by her aunt, 27-year-old Ebonay Brown, just before 7 p.m. […]
A woman who plead guilty to manslaughter for the starvation death of her 2-year-old son in 2010 died of lupus, the medical examiner has said.
Kimberly Yvonne Hood, 30, died on Feb. 27 at a prison in Rankin County.
Tara Booth, a spokeswoman for the Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC), said Hood had been taken to the prison’s infirmary and died while in the medical clinic.
An autopsy report issued by the state medical examiner said the primary cause of Hood’s death was “complications of systematic lupus.” […]
An inmate serving seven years for a series of burglaries and identity theft walked away from the McComb facility where he was being held and remains at large, authorities said.
Richard Glen Maples, 22, reportedly left the Pike County Community Work Center around 10:30 p.m. Saturday night wearing his state-issued MDOC green and white striped pants and white MDOC shirt. His shirt has “MDOC Convict” printed on the back.
Prison officials are investigating how Maples escaped from facility and whether or not he had assistance. […]
A 61-year-old man from McComb has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, five suspended, for stealing more than $16,000 from a 97-year-old woman.
Attorney General Jim Hood said Kenneth Miller appeared before Pike County Circuit Judge David strong and pleaded guilty to exploiting $16,400 from the elderly bedridden victim. […]
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