A fifth victim of West Nile virus has died in Mississippi.
The Mississippi State Department of Health said someone who had earlier been infected in Madison County has died, bringing the state’s 2012 death total to five.
The state also reported 14 new cases Monday, pushing the year’s total to 200. […]
Attorney General Jim Hood said Tuesday that despite being passed by Mississippi voters last year, registered voters will not have to show ID to vote in the upcoming November election. Hood said the reason for that being the Department of Justice has requested more information from the State before they rule on the proposed voter ID law. […]
Federal authorities in Mississippi have charged a Georgia man with videotaping himself and another man having sex with a girl who was 3 or 4 years old.
The complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Jackson, charges 26-year-old Marco Laquin Rogers of Atlanta with sexual exploitation of a child. […]
WLBT is reporting that authorities are investigating their third homicide in the Capital City this weekend.
The most recent murder occurred Sunday afternoon in west Jackson where a 34-year-old man was shot several times and subsequently died of his injuries. […]
A Greenwood nurse is facing charges that she illegally obtained drugs while she was on duty.
Stephanie Ray Barton, 46, formerly a licensed practical nurse (LPN) at Golden Age Nursing Home in Greenwood turned herself in to investigators with the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit following indictment by the Leflore County Grand Jury on seven counts of “obtaining a controlled substance by means of fraud…”
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A woman and her daughter accused of pairing up to break the law have pleaded guilty to robbing at least one bank in the city of Gulfport.
Fifty-eight-year-old Evie Mearlene Herrin and her daughter, 30-year-old Amelia Darci Crew appeared in court Monday where both entered their plea. […]
Police said a former employee of an automobile dealership has been arrested on an embezzlement charge alleging she stole more than $200,000 within about 1 1/2 years.
The Sun Herald reports that police investigated the complaint about a month before they arrested Teresa Holland Stanley on Friday, according to Detective Lt. Terry Hines said.
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On Friday, the Mississippi Freedom Trail unveiled its latest marker to commemorate James Meredith’s enrollment as the first black student at Ole Miss.
“It’s important for our students today to be reminded of the sacrifices made by people like James Meredith so that they (the students) can have a better life. We are a better society because of those sacrifices,” said Daniel Jones, chancellor of the University of Mississippi. […]
The Hinds County Republican Party and the county’s only white supervisor are suing four black county supervisors, charging race was used improperly as a factor in redrawing district voting lines.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Jackson, claims the majority-black Hinds County Board of Supervisors used “impermissible racial considerations” when redrawing district lines. […]
The lawyer for a convicted sex offender says the man will pursue an insanity defense against a charge of failing to register.
A filing Thursday said Cleve Calloway Gordon has a mental disease that prevented him to know right from wrong at the time of the alleged offense, when he didn’t register from February to April. […]
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