Year: 2010

PASCAGOULA – Michelle Obama will arrive in Mississippi this morning to honor the Coast Guard’s first female officer, Dorothy C. Stratton, by christening a Coast Guard cutter in Stratton‘s honor. This is Mrs. Obama’s second […]

News Briefs From Across The State Took their money during traffic stops A former Lee County sheriff’s deputy was sentenced to a year in jail after he admitted that he stole money out of the […]

Actor Mel Gibson is in the national spotlight stemming from a domestic violence investigation involving his ex-girlfriend Russian singer Oksana Grigorieva. However, domestic violence is not just an alarming problem among the rich and famous, […]

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration is standing by its quick decision to oust a black Agriculture Department employee over racially tinged remarks at an NAACP banquet in Georgia, despite evidence that her remarks were misconstrued […]

In what appeared to be normal ‘in the hallway’ city business turned out to be anything but. In fact Jackson City Councilman Frank Bluntson said it was ‘abnormal.’ “I honestly thought this was a proclamation […]

PARCHMAN – Joseph Burns’ final appeal for clemency never came as the State of Mississippi executed the Death Row inmate by lethal injection shortly after 6 p.m. Wednesday evening. Burns was pronounced dead at 6:50 […]

News Briefs From Across The State Hit by suspects vehicle George County Sheriff Garry Welford was killed Wednesday afternoon while laying spike strips on U.S. Highway 98 near the Greene County line in Lucedale. Authorities […]

PARCHMAN – Unless the governor of Mississippi intervenes, Death Row inmate Joseph Daniel Burns will die by lethal injection at 6 p.m. today. Burns was convicted of capital murder in 1996 for the robbery and stabbing […]

JACKSON – The former city clerk for the town of New Augusta will spend the next year on house arrest for embezzling money from the city. State Auditor Stacey Pickering said Emily Holder embezzled more […]