Health screenings, cooking tips and exercise demonstrations are being offered this month at nutrition fairs in Vicksburg and Jackson.
The free events are sponsored by the National Urban League and Tyson Foods as part of a yearlong project to alleviate hunger for about 19,000 Mississippians […]
By Othor Cain
Managing Editor
Mississippi may have had one of the smallest delegations to attend the Democratic National Convention (DNC), recently held in Charlotte, N.C., but no one can argue that perhaps the magnolia state had the most spirit and some of the best visibility and media exposure.
Media outlets across the globe including China, Australia, the BBC in England and the Al Jazeera network in the Middle East, chopped (chomped) at the bits to spotlight some of the ‘Mississippi Stars.’… […]
By Ayesha K. Mustafaa
Staff Writer
Hinds County District 1 Supervisor Robert Graham, the board president, said he was “appalled” by the outcome of last week’s 3-2 vote that cut $2.5 million from the Hinds County Sheriff’s budget.
After that vote, Graham scheduled a special meeting for Monday, Sept. 10, in an effort to reverse the board’s decision… […]
A Mississippi man who dresses and lives as a woman has been charged with depraved-heart murder after performing an illegal buttock implant that killed a Georgia woman, authorities said Tuesday. […]
A woman has been convicted of capital murder for running over and killing George County Sheriff Garry Welford in 2010.
Brandy Nicole Williams was convicted Monday by a jury in Lafayette County. Williams was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. […]
This month marks the 25th anniversary of the murder of Judge Vincent Sherry and his wife, Margaret, whose deaths at the hands of the so-called Dixie Mafia exposed the lawlessness and corruption that had overtaken Mississippi’s Gulf Coast in the 1980s.
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A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Clarence W. Jones III, 19, of Pascagoula after he allegedly shot a 55-year-old man in the leg around 2 a.m. Saturday, according to Moss Point Chief Keith Davis. […]
A 19-year-old Jones County Community College student from Meridian was killed in a weekend traffic accident.
The Hattiesburg American reports that the accident was reported Saturday morning around 4:30 a.m. at Ellisville Trucker’s Crossing. […]
A Southaven woman is going to jail for three years for faking a “slip and fall” accident at a local business in order to collect insurance money.
Tracey Leigh Davidson, 36, of Southaven pleaded guilty to the insurance fraud charges on Sept. 5, after an investigation by the attorney general’s office showed that she received a $3,440 payment from Nationwide Insurance Company by fraudulent means. […]
A 10-year-old was killed after falling off a four wheeler Saturday in Jefferson County.
Sheriff Peter Walker said it happened around 6:30 p.m. on Highway 553 in the Harriston Community outside Fayette.
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