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Man accused in couple’s killing owed them money

A man who allegedly murdered an 89-year-old man and his ailing 86-year-old wife worked for them in the past and owed them money, police said.

Interim Clinton Police Chief Mike Warren told The Clarion-Ledger that 47-year-old Willie Williams owed money to Arthur and Maxine Hodge but hadn’t worked for them in the past year.

Stephanie Henderson, a niece of the couple, says her uncle had made small loans over time to Williams totaling $1,300. […]

Detention hearing June 19 in pipe bomb case

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A detention hearing has been scheduled for June 19 for man arrested after authorities found a bomb in a car at a state prison in Leakesville. Federal court papers show John Harberson of Carriere was one of three people arrested after officers at the South Mississippi Correctional Institution found a pipe bomb in a vehicle earlier this month.

Harberson is charged in U.S. District Court in Gulfport with manufacturing a destructive device. […]

Moss Point woman charged in hit and run death of husband

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Gautier police have charged a Moss Point woman in the death of a Pascagoula man – her husband. Witnesses told police they saw 25-year-old Krystal Kersey intentionally strike 24-year-old Justin Gary Stork with her vehicle.

Stork’s body was found in a grassy area near River Bend Apartments in Gautier on Saturday, June 8.

Police Capt. Jerry Cooksey said Stork was walking between two apartment building when he was struck by a blue car. Stork was not reported to be running from Kersey.

“Witnesses said he was just standing out there,” Cooksey said. […]

Parchman remains on lockdown after inmate murdered

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The Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman remains on lockdown following a homicide and an altercation between inmates.

Kelvin Bowen was killed on Tuesday, June 11, and a disturbance occurred Wednesday, June 12, in separate locations in Unit 29.

Eleven inmates and five staff members were injured during the disturbance. Two inmates remain hospitalized.

Visitation has been canceled until further notice. […]

Man sentenced for stabbing, robbing shrimp lady

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A 61-year-old man has been ordered to serve 16 years in prison for stabbing and robbing a woman who was selling shrimp from the back of her van in Waveland. The Sun Herald reports Larry K. Hurt, of Waveland, was sentenced in Hancock County Circuit Court.

Hurt pleaded guilty to the armed robbery and aggravated assault of Ly Le, a woman known by locals as “the shrimp lady.” He stabbed her in the left shoulder and robbed her of $159 on Nov. 13, 2011. […]

Former McComb mayor dead at 96

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Former McComb Mayor Newton Haskin James, a white businessman who was among a bi-racial group of community leaders who worked to ease tensions during the civil rights movement in 1960s, has died at the age of 96.

Officials with Hartman-Sharkey Funeral Home say James died Thursday, June 13, at Beacham Memorial Hospital in Magnolia. Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday, June 17, at J. J. White Memorial Presbyterian Church in McComb. Burial will follow in Hollywood Cemetery. […]

Mississippi community college tuition increases

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Tuition will rise at 11 of Mississippi’s 15 public community colleges this fall, with average tuition for two semesters (fall and spring) rising about 6 percent to $2,376. Here are the rates that each college has approved or has projected to the state Community College Board, as well as the percentage change from the 2012-2013 academic year: […]

1 dead, 1 hurt in plane crash in east Mississippi

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Eleven years ago, Tommy Rose died in a plane crash at the National Championship Air Races in Reno, Nev.

On Wednesday, his son Tom Rose was an instructor when flying student Rodney Keith Usry crashed the single-engine plane both were aboard at a rural Mississippi airport.

Usry, a 57-year-old Hickory resident, died after the Cessna 172 clipped a power line as he tried to land at James H. Easom Field in Newton about 9:30 a.m., said FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen. The plane slammed into the ground upside down in a wooded area on a hill off the end of the runway, said Mississippi Highway Patrol spokesman Warren Strain. […]

PSC issues $420,000 fine for telemarketing

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Mississippi regulators have ordered a company named Tailbone Security to pay $420,000 for violating the state’s ban on unwanted telemarketing.

Commissioners voted 3-0 Tuesday, June 4 to impose the penalty against Tailbone, which is based in Boynton Beach, Fla.

It’s the latest in a series of large fines that the Public Service Commission has issued for companies that violate the state’s prohibition on calling people who have registered their phone numbers to get telemarketers to stop calling. […]

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Vicksburg YMCA to become sports complex

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A church group has purchased the old YMCA on Halls Ferry Road and plans to convert it into a youth sports complex.

Greater Grove Street Missionary Baptist Church bought the 13,000-square-foot main building and its surrounding 6.7 acres earlier this month for $150,000, the Rev. Casey Fisher told The Vicksburg Post.

Fisher says the complex – which will be called the Education, Exercise and Empowerment Center – is planned as a multipurpose, sports-and-leisure venue and will be open for public use. […]