By Ayesha K. Mustafaa
Interim Managing Editor
The biggest day of the year dedicated to the awareness of the effect of HIV/AIDS on the global landscape is Saturday, Dec. 1.
According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “About 500,000 people get HIV each year and young people between the ages of 13 and 24 represent a quarter of these new HIV infections or 26 percent.” […]
A Panola County Circuit Jury took less than 15 minutes to convict a Sardis woman of forging a court document, Attorney General Jim Hood said.
Samantha Johnson, 40, a former Secretary for a Batesville law office used her position to compose a fictitious Chancery Court divorce document by forging signatures, including a Deputy Clerk’s and presenting the document to an unsuspecting client as if the document had been approved and filed, when in fact it had not.
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The Lamar County School Board has voted 3-2 not to hire a Phoenix firm to install cameras on school buses to catch drivers who are passing the stopped buses.
Board member Mike Pruitt, who voted no, told The Hattiesburg American he wasn’t against installing the cameras, but objected to the way the firm intended to make its money.
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The Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame announced its class of 2013, which includes Bill Buckner, Jimmie Giles, Gerald Glass, Earnest Larry “Doc” Harrington, Langston Rogers and Michael Rubenstein.
Buckner was a quarterback at Delta State while Giles played tight end for Alcorn State before a 13-year NFL career that included four Pro Bowl appearances. […]
The Mississippi Blues Trail was recently presented an award by the Southeast Tourism Society at the society’s Annual Fall Conference in Virginia Beach, Va.
The Mississippi Blues Trail received a “Tourism for Tomorrow” award, which recognizes the accomplishments of a destination, company or organization in the realm of sustainable tourism with a project that promotes tourism development while safeguarding local culture and/or protecting the environment.
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When state wildlife officials decided to expand alligator hunting this year – not once but twice – local officers got a tiny bit worried.
At first, the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks (MDWFP) said the hunt could take place on public waterways across two-thirds of the state, including all of southwest Mississippi.
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A Dec. 5 sentencing date has been set for an Okolona man who pleaded guilty to FEMA fraud. Ronnie G. Beard pleaded guilty in the case in July in U.S. District Court in Aberdeen.
Beard was indicted in December 2011 on two counts that he lied and embezzled money from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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Tony Ervin, also known as ‘Ti“, 36, of Tylertown, has been sentenced by U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to serve 74 months in federal prison followed by four years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute cocaine base (“crack”).
Ervin was also ordered to pay $11,700 in restitution, and a $2,000 fine. He agreed to forfeit real property, a Cadillac Escalade, two firearms, and multiple rounds of ammunition.
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The state Court of Appeals has upheld the conviction of Jamal Johnson for the killing two men in a south Jackson apartment in 2009.
Jamal Johnson was convicted of two counts of capital murder in the deaths of Quintyn Wilson and Fred Smith. Johnson was sentenced to two life sentences in 2011 in Hinds County.
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Police at the University of Mississippi say they have turned over to the FBI information regarding vandalism apparently aimed at an African-American freshman.
“We are presenting everything we have about this case to them,” University Police Chief Calvin Sellers said in The Oxford Eagle “They will investigate to see if this is a hate crime or civil rights violations.”
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