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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 […]