By Monica Land COLUMBUS – A 73-year-old man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for raping his granddaughter nearly two years ago. It only took a jury 15 minutes to decide David Arthur […]
Special To The Mississippi Link JACKSON – The Mississippi Legislature recently honored the state’s first African-American women judges. The concurrent resolution recognized Hinds County Chancellors Denise Owens and Patricia Wise, Fourth District Circuit Judge Betty […]
By Monica Land TCHULA – Funeral services were held Saturday for Mississippi’s first black Republican female mayor, Yvonne Rayford Brown. Brown, 59, died of cancer on Monday, April 23, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Columbus. […]
By Monica Land JACKSON – Last week’s murder of Pearl Police Officer Michael J. Walter was a sobering reminder of the men and women in law enforcement who put their lives on the line – […]
By Monica Land GUNTOWN – FBI officials are confirming that two bodies were found at the residence of a man suspected of kidnapping a woman and her three daughters, but they have not released […]
GREENWOOD – (AP) It wasn’t a secret that Dr. Ralph Arnold Smith Jr. was still angry at the attorney who represented his ex-wife during their divorce in the mid-1990s. Now authorities in Greenwood are investigating […]
By Monica Land News Briefs From Across The State Woman was shot during robbery Copiah County Deputies have arrested Jermaine Benson, Ashley Dollar, and Juan Catchings, all of Crystal Springs, in connection with a shooting […]
A WTVA report TUPELO – The director of the Family Resource Center in Tupelo supports a bill sent to the governor that requires health professionals, clergy and others to report suspected sexual abuse of children. […]
By Monica Land WASHINGTON – For decades, black farmers across the south were unjustly denied farm loans or subjected to longer waits for loan approval because of racism; and as a result, many of them […]
By Monica Land JACKSON – Anyone traveling in the west Jackson area Tuesday afternoon knew something was wrong. Patrolmen raced down the streets – sirens screaming and traffic halted – as they barreled toward […]
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