Special To The Mississippi Link JACKSON – The Mississippi Legislature recently honored the state’s first African-American women judges. The concurrent resolution recognized Hinds County Chancellors Denise Owens and Patricia Wise, Fourth District Circuit Judge Betty […]
By Monica Land TCHULA – Funeral services were held Saturday for Mississippi’s first black Republican female mayor, Yvonne Rayford Brown. Brown, 59, died of cancer on Monday, April 23, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Columbus. […]
BILOXI – (AP) Mike Gillich Jr., a former Biloxi striptease lounge owner who helped plot the 1987 Dixie Mafia murders of a judge and the judge’s wife, has died. Bradford O’Keefe Funeral Homes in Biloxi […]
JACKSON (AP) Former NFL football player Jeffrey Walker is going to prison for defrauding investors in four states of more than $2 million in what prosecutors say was a land development scheme involving property in […]
NEW YORK – (AP) Adam Yauch, the gravelly voiced Beastie Boys rapper and the most conscientious member of the seminal hip-hop group, died of cancer Friday, his mentor Russell Simmons confirmed. Yauch was 47. Simmons’ […]
By Monica Land JACKSON – Last week’s murder of Pearl Police Officer Michael J. Walter was a sobering reminder of the men and women in law enforcement who put their lives on the line – […]
GALLMAN – The search for a missing woman – with ties to Carroll County – has taken a national turn as her story has appeared on the ‘America’s Most Wanted’ website. Sixty-five-year-old Linda Gail Reed, a bookkeeper […]
News Briefs From Across The State No suspects in custody Authorities say a Nebraska man has died after being shot while driving on Interstate 55 in north Mississippi. Mississippi Highway Patrol spokesman Joey Miller said […]
JACKSON – (AP) A former Mississippi mayor and prison warden has been sentenced to seven months behind bars for telling an inmate to lie to investigators about sex they had in a hotel room in 2009. Grady […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – While the FBI continues their search for kidnapping suspect 35-year-old Adam Mayes, autopsy results have positively identified the two bodies found behind his parents’ Mississippi residence as that of 31-year-old Jo Ann […]
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