AG forms foreclosure prevention group

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood has delivered a check totaling just over $30 million to the state treasury from litigation involving cases against Standard & Poor’s and Capital One Bank. “The […]

By Shanderia K. Posey Editor Hinds County District Attorney Robert Shuler Smith is calling the actions of Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood “outrageous” following Smith’s arrest and indictment on Sept. 7. After learning about Hood’s […]

A death row inmate convicted of killing two college students in December 1992 has been issued a stay of execution after his attorneys raised doubts as to what they call ‘new evidence.’

Willie Jerome “Fly” Manning had been scheduled to die by lethal injection on Tuesday, May 7 at 6 p.m. But just before 2 p.m., Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner (MDOC) Christopher Epps told a room of people waiting to witness the execution that Manning had been granted a stay by the Mississippi Supreme Court.

Manning was convicted for the brutal murders of Mississippi State University Students Tiffany Miller and Jon Steckler in Oktibbeha County. […]