News Briefs From Across The State
Source of outbreak unknown
Officials at Magnolia Regional Health Center in Corinth said the hospital has received 11 positive salmonella cultures since Nov. 28.
Hospital CEO Nick Napper told the Daily Corinthian that some of the cases have been admitted to the hospital.
Napper said the patients who tested positive for salmonella are in stable condition or have been treated and released. He said the Mississippi State Health Department has been notified.
Napper says a definitive source is yet to be determined.
Salmonella is bacteria resulting in fever, cramps and diarrhea that lasts for several days and can require hospitalization.
State health officials have interviewed the patients to find out what foods they’d eaten. They also are taking food samples from local restaurants. No restaurants have been closed by the state.
Warren County woman dies of injuries
Warren County authorities have charged a local man with the death of his girlfriend.
County Coroner Doug Huskey told the Vicksburg Post that 40-year-old Angela Andrews died Monday, Dec. 5, in a Jackson hospital. He said an autopsy has been ordered.
Sheriff Martin Pace said 41-year-old Lorenzo Hull is charged with murder. Hull is being held without bond in the county jail after a court appearance Tuesday.
Huskey said Andrews died of head trauma.
Pace said Hull called 911 Monday morning, saying his girlfriend would not wake up. He said deputies and EMTs found Andrews unconscious and unresponsive. She was taken to a Vicksburg hospital before being transferred to Jackson.
Pace would not comment on specifics of Angela Andrews’ injuries. He said investigators are awaiting autopsy results.
Wesson man faces charge in hay scam
A Wesson man has been charged with selling hay over the Internet. Authorities said the problem is James Darin Hoffman had no hay to sell.
Copiah County chief investigator Milton Twiner told The Clarion-Ledger that Hoffman was freed on a $50,000 bond shortly after his arrest on Nov. 29.
Twiner says Hoffman allegedly had been selling hay to farmers in Texas through a website called The Hay Barn. The site calls itself a “classified ad site for hay, hay equipment, and haying services.”
The Texas area was an easy target as it is under a state of emergency because of the ongoing drought.
Hoffman is charged with four counts of false pretenses.
Police captain released from suit
Hattiesburg police Capt. Jamie Hooker has been released as a defendant in a lawsuit alleging Hooker and other unnamed officers beat a Hattiesburg man while searching for illegal drugs.
The Hattiesburg American reported that U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett issued the order dismissing Hooker as a defendant on Nov. 22.
Starrett says the plaintiff, Woodrow Williams, failed to serve a summons to Hooker within the allotted time.
Starrett said Williams filed his initial complaint March 28 and an amended version June 21. The court then entered an order Aug. 22, reminding Williams his time to serve the lawsuit to the defendants was running out under the federal rules of civil procedure.
The city of Hattiesburg and the three unnamed officers remain defendants. The city has denied Williams’ claims.
Ocean Springs alderman out on bond
Ocean Springs Alderman James Hagan bonded out of jail after he appeared in court on charges of touching of a child for lustful purposes and embezzlement.
The Sun Herald reported County Court Judge T. Larry Wilson set Hagan’s bond at $25,000 on the sex crime charge, with a $1,000 bond set on the embezzlement charge.
In the sex-crime case, Hagan is accused of fondling a child under the age of 18 for lustful purposes at a residence in Ocean Springs.
Sheriff’s investigators arrested Hagan at his Moss Point office, where he works as the city’s building code enforcement officer. Authorities seized four laptop computers and one desktop computer. Deputies said Hagan had reported one of the laptops stolen a year ago.
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