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INDIANOLA – Already famous for being the hometown of many legendary performers including B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf and Sam Cooke, the Mississippi Delta will forever be remembered as the “Birthplace of the Blues.” […]

WASHINGTON – A California man killed in a shootout with Pentagon police drove cross-country and arrived at the military headquarters’ subway entrance armed with two semiautomatic weapons, authorities said Friday. The shooter apparently left behind […]

MADISON COUNTY, Tenn. – A Greenwood man will be sentenced Friday for murdering a man and his girlfriend more than two years ago. Eric Ricardo Middleton, 26, was found guilty of first degree murder in […]

News Briefs From Across The State Indianola policeman charged The federal trial of an Indianola policeman charged with bribery began in Oxford this week with jury selections. Tony Cooper is accused of accepting and agreeing […]

In an exclusive interview with The Mississippi Link former Hinds County Administrator Vern Gavin said, “It is simply a matter of having to please three supervisors at all times.” Gavin made this statement after news […]

JACKSON – A Nashville, Tenn., resident has pleaded guilty to the exploitation of a vulnerable adult, Attorney General Jim Hood said. On Feb. 19, in Forrest County Circuit Court, 51-year old Valeria Knight, entered an […]

News Briefs From Across the State Driver was uninsured Greenville Police issued a local woman two citations after she was involved in an accident that claimed the life of another motorist. Authorities said Makeedah Johnson, […]

HOUSTON – Parents from the Houston School District are calling for the termination of a substitute teacher that allegedly used a racial slur when addressing a group of fifth grade students. Officials said the Houston […]

News Briefs From Across The State Nearly 350 workers let go in two years Viking Range Corporation in Leflore County announced that 20 more employees were being laid off from their plant’s hourly workforce. Bill […]

JACKSON – A UMC Hospital employee is dead after authorities said her husband killed her and then shot himself in an attempted murder-suicide. Authorities said a family member found 45-year old Sharon Kelly in the […]