JACKSON – The Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) would like to inform motorists of a wide load that will move through the state today.
Today, Dec. 5, a wide load will depart Holly Springs and travel south on Highway 7 to U.S. Highway 78 to Olive Branch. […]
Federal prison officials say Richard “Dickie” Scruggs will be released Dec. 12.
Scruggs will be granted a release on $2 million bond while he appeals a 2009 guilty plea that he improperly influenced then Hinds County Circuit Judge Bobby DeLaughter. […]
Officials at Ice Industries Grenada said they are adding 35 jobs and investing $500,000 in an expansion.
The unit of privately-held ICE Industries of Sylvania, Ohio, says it’s expanding engineering, testing and manufacturing at the north Mississippi metal stamping plant, The Clarion-Ledger reports. […]
A 67-year-old Gulfport man is dead after officials said he collided with a tree on Highway 90 late Saturday night. Jimmie Jamison was pronounced dead at Memorial Hospital after being transported from the scene, Gulfport police said.
Officers responded about 11:19 p.m. to Highway 90 adjacent to Roberts Avenue regarding a single-vehicle accident. […]
Mississippi’s obesity rate in high school students has dropped, knocking the state’s teens out of the number one spot down to number five in obesity nationwide.
A 2011 survey finds the rate of obesity among Mississippi high school students down to 16.5 percent from 18.1 percent in 2009. […]
It was a freak accident that left two children with severe second and third degree burns all over their bodies. That’s how one family member describes the explosion at a home on Smith Road in Harrison County over the weekend.
Katelyn and Tyler Myers are being treated at a burn center in Augusta, Georgia. On Tuesday, Nov. 27, the children’s aunt talked to WLOX about the children’s physical injuries and the family’s own emotional agony. […]
A Scott County nurse has been arrested and charged with taking drugs from a patient for his own purposes, Attorney General Jim Hood said.
Jacob David Lee, 27, formerly a registered nurse (RN) at S. E. Lackey Critical Access Hospital in Forest, turned himself in to investigators with the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit on Wednesday, Nov. 28, following indictment by the Scott County Grand Jury on one count of “obtaining a controlled substance by means of fraud…”
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Demetrius Cain rushed for 138 yards on 17 carries with a touchdown as Hazlehurst beat Charleston 21-20 Saturday to claim the MHSAA Class 3A state championship.
It is the Indians first state title since 2005 and second in school history. […]
Longtime Democratic Mississippi state Sen. Bennie Turner, a lawyer, champion of public education and respected member of the Legislature, died Tuesday. He was 64.
Sen. Hob Bryan, a longtime colleague and friend of the legislator, told The Associated Press that Turner died Tuesday, Nov. 27, at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, where he had been hospitalized with an illness. […]
The Mississippi Link Newswire
Liberty Bank and the Hinds County Sheriff’s Department are co-sponsoring a swearing in ceremony for the “newest deputy” Thursday, Nov. 29, at 11:30 a.m., adding another crime-fighting component to Hinds County.
The newest addition to aid the deputies is a K-9 named “Deputy Liberty.” As a Hinds County employee, Deputy Liberty has the same benefits of all full time employees. His addition was made possible by generous support from Liberty Bank…. […]
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