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BELZONI – A woman who was arrested for perjury during the capital murder trial of a Winona man last September plead guilty to those charges in court on Monday. Mary Annette Purnell, of Winona, and […]

Gene “Geno” Lee, proprietor of the Big Apple Inn, in Jackson, Miss., is a fourth generation Farish Street restaurateur, famous for pig ear sandwiches and smoked sausage sandwiches. The famous delicacies recently garnered Lee and […]

MVSU Public Relations Department Mississippi Valley State University President Donna H. Oliver said her administration is committed to being responsive to the state’s current fiscal challenges while also maintaining its profile of autonomy in support […]

HOLMES COUNTY – A Yalobusha man was killed and his brother seriously injured after authorities said they were allegedly gunned down during a drug deal earlier this week. A suspect is being questioned in that […]

YAZOO COUNTY – District Attorney James Powell exclusively told The Mississippi Link on Friday that his investigation of a Yazoo County deputy who killed a man during a domestic related call last month is over. […]

WAPT.com JACKSON, Miss. — One woman is dead after a late-night wreck Sunday. It happened just after 9 p.m near the Bailey Avenue and Northside Drive intersection in North Jackson. Jackson police took one man […]

During a recent summit of black Mississippi leaders in Jackson, Rep. Billy Broomfield (D-Harrison) said “anyone brave enough to introduce any proposal to close or merge any state university, that proposal will never see the […]

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 […]