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News Briefs From Across The State Incident under investigation Noxubee County officials have arrested a 25-year old man and charged him with the statutory rape of his 13-year old first cousin. Marcus Bonds, of the […]

Friday, Sept. 10, United States Representative Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) requested that the Department of Health and Human Services determine whether Gov. Haley Barbour’s plan to redirect Federal Medicaid Assistance Percentage (FMAP) funds to the […]

JACKSON – The last of seven defendants has been sentenced for staging a car accident in Yazoo County, Attorney General Jim Hood said. Lorenzo Deering, 24, of Pickens, appeared before Judge Jannie M. Lewis in […]

News Briefs From Across The State Trigger man turns himself in Bolivar County officials said a man suspected of shooting eight people outside a Gunnison night club over the Labor Day weekend has turned himself […]

Last week, Courtroom No. 7 of the Hinds County Courthouse in downtown Jackon was a very popular place for bidders on the county’s delinquent property taxes. People from around the country traveled to Mississippi to […]

GRENADA – A 25-year old woman from Grenada has been sentenced to life in prison for killing her 23-month old son earlier this year. Latondrea Neshay Smith plead guilty to the lesser charge of murder for […]

News Briefs From Across The State Police searching for 3 suspects Bolivar County officials are searching for three men in connection with a shooting early Sunday morning at a club in Gunnison. Authorities said eight […]

Group joined by CDF National President NEW ORLEANS – “It’s some good stuff and great conversations going on in the city this weekend,” said Mary Joseph, director of the Children’s Defense Fund’s (CDF) Katrina Resource […]

NEW ORLEANS – Speaking from the campus of Xavier University, Sunday, Aug. 29, the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, President Barack Obama told a cheering crowd that his administration will stick with them until they […]