Year: 2011

News Briefs From Across The State State law prohibits tattoos and body piercing on children A 34-year-old woman has been charged with illegally piercing the body of a 15-year-old girl at an unlicensed home-shop near […]

IUKA – While the National Weather Service has downgraded Tropical Storm Lee to a tropical depression, residents in Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi are still feelings its effects. At least two deaths have been attributed […]

OCEAN SPRINGS – A Vancleave man wanted for felony shoplifting has been charged with possession of drug paraphernalia after he was caught with drugs on school property. Albert Matthew Everett, 25, was spotted by a […]

News Briefs From Across The State Also gets probation for three years A 29-year-old Gulfport man has been sentenced to 41 months in federal prison on a guilty plea to possession of a firearm by […]

JACKSON – Kicking off early in anticipation of Labor Day festivities, the Mississippi State Highway Patrol has issued a “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign that will run through the end of the Labor […]

News Briefs From Across The State Victim shot three times in the back Jackson police are still looking for the gunman who shot a man three times while he was standing outside a local gas […]

Special to The Mississippi Link New Episode of “Southern Remedy: Mississippi’s Big Problem” to Air August 31 Third Episode in Four-Part Series Links Obesity, Health Care and Economics in Mississippi JACKSON – Mississippi Public Broadcasting […]

ROSEDALE – The Mississippi Blues Trail honored a Delta culinary favorite on Friday in Bolivar County, marking their first tribute celebrating a food item. The hot tamale was recognized as an official part of Mississippi’s […]

JACKSON – The former clerk for the soil and water conservation department in Perry County has plead guilty to embezzlement, State Auditor Stacey Pickering said. Melanie Nobles pleaded guilty to embezzlement in court on Thursday […]