2013 – Page 17 – The Mississippi Link

AP analysis: Former warden Donald Cabana, who died last week, believed Parchman camps had uses

JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — The Parchman penitentiary Donald Cabana returned to in 2004 when he again became warden looked little like what it had been 13 years before.

He told the story many times of how he didn’t like what he saw — steel and concrete buildings each with 500-600 inmates. The changes had been coming since 1972, when a federal judge took control of a prison system wracked with overcrowding, forced labor and segregation… […]

News Around Mississippi: Trooper runs over horse and flips, fatal motel shooting, fatal wreck

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The Associated Press
News Briefs From Around The State

Here is a roundup of news and notes from around Mississippi this morning:

In Meridian, the Mississippi Highway Patrol says a trooper’s car hit a horse and overturned — as the officer was answering a report that another driver had hit a horse.
WJTV reports that officials did not identify the trooper, but say he was released after being checked at a hospital in Meridian.

The accident occurred Saturday night on Highway 15 in Jasper County. Officials say another horse ran into the road in front of the squad car… […]

Opinion: Enough is Enough

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Back on Sept. 12, the Republican-led House of Representatives voted for the 42nd time to derail the Affordable Care Act. That’s 42 more times than they have voted on raising the minimum wage, increasing federal investments in our roads or highways or helping local school districts get the hundreds of thousands of teachers whose jobs were lost when the Great Recession cut local tax revenue back into our children’s classrooms…. […]

Patriots, Tom Brady stun Saints with winning TD with 5 seconds remaining in game

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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Tom Brady still has that comeback touch.

Coming off one of his worst games, he threw a 17-yard touchdown pass to rookie Kenbrell Thompkins with 5 seconds left, giving the New England Patriots a wild 30-27 win and knocking the New Orleans Saints from the unbeaten ranks Sunday… […]

Sociology students meet Alumni Association

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The Mississippi Link Newswire
The Delta State Alumni Association recently hosted a visit from the senior sociology class taught by Dr. Leslie E. Green-Pimentel. The course provides a venue for integrating material learned in the Social Sciences program.

Dr. Green-Pimentel’s class is designed to establish a basis for instituting assessment-based education in the Division of Social Sciences and History at Delta State University and to serve as a transition between life in the university and life after college… […]

Body found in burned SUV identified as McComb man

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MAGNOLIA, Mississippi (AP) — Authorities in Pike County have identified a body was found Oct. 1 in a burned SUV.

Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Steve Rushing tells the Enterprise-Journal that the state Crime Lab used DNA to identify the victim was 44-year-old Janice Blackwell Brown of McComb, the vehicle’s owner… […]

Another doctor sought for mental evaluation of Mississippi doctor accused in murder-for-hire plot

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GREENWOOD, Mississippi (AP) — Prosecutors and the defense team for a Greenwood doctor charged in a murder-for-hire case will talk to a forensic psychiatrist at a state mental hospital about bringing in another doctor to assist in the evaluation of Dr. Arnold Smith.

The Greenwood Commonwealth reports that the decision came Tuesday during a court in Greenwood on the progress of Smith’s mental evaluation… […]

Federal judge cancels hearing for leader of Mississippi chapter of Simon City Royals Jason Bullock

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JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — A federal judge has canceled a pretrial conference that had been scheduled for Thursday for an alleged Mississippi gang leader charged in a racketeering case.

The hearing for Jason Marshall Bullock, also known as “Sir J-Mac,” was scheduled to take place in U.S. District Court in Hattiesburg.

U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett canceled the hearing, but the court website did not say why… […]

Ole Miss student, critically injured in beating in Austin prior to Texas football game, returns home to continue recovery

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The Associated Press
An Ole Miss student, who was critically injured Sept. 14 in a beating while he was in Austin, Texas, for the Rebels football game, has returned home to Bloomington, Ind., to continue his recovery, according to a report in the Austin American-Statesman.

Carson Otter, 21, was placed in a medically-induced coma after the incident and underwent brain surgery… […]

Some Mississippi Valley State alumni oppose William Bynum to be university’s next president

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JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Some Mississippi Valley State University alumni are complaining about the nomination of William Bynum to be the university’s next president.

Roosevelt Yarbrough, president of Valley’s alumni association, said at a news conference he wants the school to be led by an alumnus, and says he’s worried that Bynum doesn’t have any experience working for public universities.

“Nobody’s going to convince me we don’t have qualified Valley grads out there who can lead the university in the way it needs to go,” Yarbrough said Friday… […]