Year: 2010

UPDATE:  Curtis Giovanni Flowers was sentenced to death today, Saturday, June 19, for the execution-style murders of four people at Tardy Furniture store in Winona on July 16, 1996. After about 20 minutes, the jury told […]

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama and BP reached agreement Wednesday June 16 on a $20 billion fund to compensate victims of the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and the giant British company’s […]

Jackson City Councilman Kenneth Stokes has vowed to continue his fight against a local newspaper as a result of a recently printed article questioning the validity of his travel to several conferences. In an article […]

WINONA – The State’s first witness Tuesday morning said Curtis Flowers confessed to him that he killed the four victims at Tardy Furniture on July 16, 1996. Odell Hallmon, currently an inmate with the Mississippi […]

WINONA – Tempers continue to flare as the Curtis Flowers’ murder trial entered its second week at the Montgomery County Courthouse. While some witnesses, most of them testifying for the sixth time, were clearly exhausted […]

News Briefs From Across The State Sentencing set for Aug. 19 A Louisiana minister will be sentenced on Aug. 19 after pleading guilty to using stolen money orders while in Mississippi. Printed reports said Rev. […]

WINONA – Nearly a week after they were first summoned to court on June 4, a jury of six women and six men were seated Thursday afternoon in the sixth murder trial of Curtis Giovanni […]

News Briefs From Across The State A local chiropractor has been arrested and charged with insurance fraud, the attorney general’s office said. Dr. James Donovan, 63, turned himself in to police after he was indicted […]

WASHINGTON — [Thursday], President Obama nominated Mississippi Supreme Court Justice James E. Graves Jr. to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. “Throughout his career James E. Graves has shown unwavering integrity […]