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JACKSON – (AP) A prominent Jackson businessman has taken his own life, days after his former wife was released from prison by then-Gov. Haley Barbour, authorities said. Jackson Police spokeswoman Colendula Green told The Associated […]

PURVIS – (AP) According to the latest statistics, murder was up in Lamar County in 2011, but the amount of rapes dropped sharply. There were four murders in the county in 2011 – the most in […]

PHILADELPHIA – Authorities have confirmed that the man killed in a plane crash in Neshoba County Monday afternoon was a former Navy pilot and businessman from Meridian. Forty-eight-year-old Richard Howarth Jr. was pronounced dead at […]

JACKSON – (AP) Workers in Hinds County don’t have to worry about running out of toner or printer ink anytime soon. An audit of county’s administrator and purchasing department found $35,000 of stockpiled toner and […]

“You can’t ask for redemption until you admit that you sinned,” Barbour said. JACKSON – (AP) Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said Friday that two sisters he released last year on the condition that one […]

JACKSON – (AP) The U.S. Department of Agriculture says it plans to close 11 offices in Mississippi as part of a $150 million cost cutting measure that includes 259 closures nationwide. The Clarion-Ledger reports that […]

News Briefs From Across The State Victim saw his stolen property on popular social network A Gulfport man has been charged with embezzlement after his former employer saw items from his business in a photo […]

News Briefs From Across The State Driver admits he had taken drugs A trucker who hit four motorists and a police cruiser during a drug-fueled chase on Interstate 81 near Hagerstown, Maryland has been sentenced to […]