The town of Kosciusko has adopted a ban on sagging pants.
The Star Herald reports that the wearing of sagging pants was added recently to the town’s ordinance prohibiting public indecency. The ordinance takes effect Oct. 18. […]
Columbus police have arrested a man in the alleged rape of a woman on the Mississippi University for Women campus in August.
The Commercial Dispatch reports 26-year-old Jamarrell Brandon was arrested on Monday and charged with one count sexual battery. […]
Security is tight in a murder trial in Pike County Circuit court involving a Summit man accused of beating and robbing a check cashing company employee.
On trial is 26-year-old Kendrick Cowart, on charges of murder, armed robbery and two counts of conspiracy. […]
Patricia Chadwick “Pat” Lamar, the first woman mayor of Oxford, Miss., died Monday at Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi. She was 71.
The cause of death was not released. […]
The body of a 59-year-old Brandon woman feared kidnapped has been found near Tougaloo College in Madison County, and police say her alleged assailant is jailed on murder charges.
Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey tells The Clarion-Ledger Lenora Patsy Edhegard was found dead Tuesday night. He didn’t give details on her cause of death. […]
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will speak about civil rights today at the University of Mississippi.
The Justice Department said Holder’s speech is titled “50 Years of Integration -1962-2012: A Reflection on Civil Rights in America.” […]
A Jackson woman accused of the sexual battery of a minor – along with her husband – will stand trial next month, the attorney general’s office has confirmed.
Jan Webb, 42, and her husband, William J. Webb, 59, were arrested on Jan. 8 for the sexual battery of a person under the age of 18. While the attorney general did not release specific details about the case, he did say the alleged incident took place in October 2010 at the couple’s residence in the 3500 block of Shady Oaks Street. […]
A gambling company has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit that claims a Mississippi casino served a heavily medicated man so many free drinks that he collapsed in the bathroom of his hotel room and died.
The lawsuit against IP Casino Resort and Spa in Biloxi was filed in U.S. District Court in Gulfport in July and seeks damages of $75 million. […]
While Houston Stackhouse never became a major name in the blues, he still played an influential role in the history of the Delta blues as a sideman and mentor.
A Wesson, Miss. native, Stackhouse will be honored today with a marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail at 2 p.m. in his hometown. The unveiling will take place at 1047 8th Street. This is the 162nd marker on the blues trail. […]
After missing for a week, a pet boa constrictor has been found in the same city where it disappeared.
The Clarion-Ledger reports that the snake was found Friday night by two Madison residents who saw a large snake crossing a road. […]
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