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[ October 1, 2025 ] VFW Post 12172 Presents 4th Annual POW/MIA Recognition Day Program Local
[ October 1, 2025 ] Mississippi Spotlight: Bishop Dr. Jimmie Horton honored as the 2025 Iowa NAACP Lifetime Achievement Award Local
[ October 1, 2025 ] Commentary: Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine – Mississippi politics of discrimination hits new low at Auditor’s office Local
[ October 1, 2025 ] Ben Crump pledges $50K to the Black Press and challenges others to follow his lead National
[ September 24, 2025 ] The Thousand Man March in Jackson – Unity, Solidarity, Action – Breaking the chains in our Capital City and across Mississippi Local

Former Mississippi corrections chief Christopher Epps pleads guilty to corruption charges

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JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — Former Mississippi Corrections Commissioner Christopher Epps and businessman Cecil McCrory are pleading guilty on federal corruption charges. Epps pleaded guilty to a count of money laundering conspiracy and a count of […]

Former assistant principal sentenced for sexual battery

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LEXINGTON, Mississippi (AP) — A former assistant principal in Holmes County has been sentenced to serve 20 years in prison for sexual battery of a 10th grade student. George Lomax, the former assistant principal of […]

Official: 5 or 6 of officers’ 17 shots hit Mexican man

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By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS KENNEWICK, Wash. (AP) — An unarmed Mexican man fatally shot by police in Washington state was hit by five or six of the 17 shots fired by the three officers involved, a […]

Death row inmate’s appeal of Harrison County murder conviction denied

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JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from a Mississippi death row inmate. The court announced its decision Monday. Jason Lee Keller sentenced to death for the 2007 […]

High court to hear appeal of murder conviction in death of George County Sheriff Garry Welford

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JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — The Mississippi Supreme Court will hear an appeal from the man convicted in the 2010 death of George County Sheriff Garry Welford. The state Court of Appeals upheld Christopher Lee Baxter’s […]

Mississippi Judge’s Speech To 3 White Murderers

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The Mississippi Link Newswire What follows is the speech by U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves that he read to the three young white defendants right before he sentenced them for the death of James Craig […]

Plea deal coming in fatal punch of referee

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DETROIT (AP) — A lawyer for a soccer player charged in the one-punch killing of a referee during a game says his client has agreed to a plea deal with prosecutors in which he would […]

Girls describe stabbing classmate in interrogation video

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WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — Police interrogation video of two Wisconsin girls accused of nearly killing a classmate to please a fictional character shows them describing their calculated plan to kill their friend. WISN-TV obtained the […]

Father, stepmom charged in case of Detroit boy in basement

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DETROIT (AP) — Prosecutors are bringing torture and child abuse charges against the father and stepmother of a 12-year-old Detroit boy who was found in his father’s basement in June after an 11-day disappearance. The […]

Parents charged in death of paralyzed teen with bedsores

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indianapolis couple is charged with neglect in the death of their paralyzed 18-year-old daughter who died wearing only a diaper and covered in blackened bedsores. John and Lavonne Kelley are accused […]