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WINONA – A man who police said shot into his girlfriend’s house, bit her son, and then alluded police for almost two years was given three years probation in circuit court. Donald Chambers, of Winona […]

GRENADA – A Grenada County man is scheduled to appear in court next week for accidentally shooting his 16-year old son in the stomach. Steven Dale Fortenberry was taken into custody just after 3 a.m., […]

For the second time, a federal appeals court has upheld the dismissal of a wrongful death suit in the case of a woman who died in the back of a patrol car after she was […]

Associated Press CANTON, Miss. (AP) _ Attorneys for convicted murderer Carla Hughes say the jury may have held it against the former teacher for not testifying in her own defense. Hughes’ attorney said in an […]

JARRATT, Va. – Sniper John Allen Muhammad refused to utter any last words as he was executed, taking to the grave answers about why and how he plotted the killings of 10 people that terrorized […]

Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) A post-conviction petition from death row inmate Thomas E. Loden Jr. is among dozens of cases before the Mississippi Supreme Court during its November-December term. A trial judge in Itawamba […]

WASHINGTON – Don’t look for the Senate to quickly follow the House on health care overhaul. A government health insurance plan included in the House bill is unacceptable to a few Democratic moderates who hold […]

Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – A Jackson man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison on charges related to a 2007 crash that left two people dead. It is reported that Christopher Scott […]

Cheers and applause filled the U. S. Capitol Rotunda on Oct. 28. It was an emotional moment as nearly 500 people witnessed “the Obama of the 20th century” receive the highest honor Congress can bestow […]

Special to The Mississippi Link Newspaper The NAACP of Charles County, Md., near Washington, D.C., wants the U.S. government to look into the shooting death of a 44-year-old Black man by two police officers last […]