News
Inmate who killed priest commits suicide in jail
JACKSON – An autopsy of a man accused of killing a Roman Catholic priest and taking the victim’s car on a family vacation to Walt Disney World showed he died in a jailhouse suicide, a […]
Month: January 2012
Health
Women in Sunflower, Leflore and Humphreys can get free cancer exams
GREENWOOD – (AP) Needy women in three Mississippi counties are now eligible for free breast cancer screenings. The Fannie Lou Hamer Cancer Foundation has received a $25,000 grant from the New York-based Avon Foundation for […]
Sports
USM releases football schedule
HATTIESBURG – (AP) Southern Miss opens the 2012 football season Sept. 1 at Nebraska with non-conference home dates with Louisville and Boise State. The Golden Eagles, 12-2 and Conference USA champions last season, travel to […]
Central Mississippi News
Bryant salutes work of racial reconciliation group
By JEFF AMY Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) _ Gov. Phil Bryant said he plans to continue activity with a Christian group promoting racial reconciliation. Mission Mississippi honored Bryant Friday, hosting the Governor’s Prayer Luncheon […]
News
Mississippi beats South Carolina 66-62
OXFORD – (AP) South Carolina knows Mississippi’s Murphy Holloway better than any other team. That doesn’t mean the Gamecocks could figure out a way to stop him. The 6-foot-7 junior forward scored 14 points and […]
News
MVSU beats Jackson State 60-54
ITTA BENA – (AP) Cor-J Cox scored 15 points and Paul Crosby recorded a double-double as Mississippi Valley State beat Jackson State 60-54 on Saturday. Crosby scored 12 points and grabbed 12 boards while Cox […]
News
Sentencing set in Arkansas-Miss. kidnapping case
JACKSON – (AP) A federal judge has scheduled a February sentencing hearing in the kidnapping case involving an Arkansas man who was abducted from home and taken at gunpoint to a Mississippi casino to cash […]
News
Blue Devils face forfeitures
PICAYUNE – (AP) Pearl River Central High School’s Boys basketball team is in the midst of one of its best seasons on the hardwood in a decade. The Blue Devils, however, face the possibility of […]
News
Suspect arrested during TV interview
CANTON – (AP) A Mississippi man accused of pointing a rifle at a neighbor was arrested during a television interview that began when he walked up to a TV crew photographing his house, which deputies […]
News
Suspect in hammer beating death shot by police
BILOXI – An Arizona man suspected of beating a 72-year-old co-worker to death in Louisiana was shot by police in Biloxi on Saturday. Carl Lance Wise, 56, of Scottsdale, died in surgery after he allegedly […]