The Mississippi Delta Community College Board of Trustees announced that Dr. Larry Nabors, Executive Vice President at Northeast Mississippi Community College, has been named President of the College.
Nabors will replace interim president Dr. Lynda Steele who has held the position since June 1, 2012 following the retirement of Dr. Larry Bailey. […]
A 67-year-old Gulfport man is dead after officials said he collided with a tree on Highway 90 late Saturday night. Jimmie Jamison was pronounced dead at Memorial Hospital after being transported from the scene, Gulfport police said.
Officers responded about 11:19 p.m. to Highway 90 adjacent to Roberts Avenue regarding a single-vehicle accident. […]
Mississippi’s obesity rate in high school students has dropped, knocking the state’s teens out of the number one spot down to number five in obesity nationwide.
A 2011 survey finds the rate of obesity among Mississippi high school students down to 16.5 percent from 18.1 percent in 2009. […]
It was a freak accident that left two children with severe second and third degree burns all over their bodies. That’s how one family member describes the explosion at a home on Smith Road in Harrison County over the weekend.
Katelyn and Tyler Myers are being treated at a burn center in Augusta, Georgia. On Tuesday, Nov. 27, the children’s aunt talked to WLOX about the children’s physical injuries and the family’s own emotional agony. […]
A Scott County nurse has been arrested and charged with taking drugs from a patient for his own purposes, Attorney General Jim Hood said.
Jacob David Lee, 27, formerly a registered nurse (RN) at S. E. Lackey Critical Access Hospital in Forest, turned himself in to investigators with the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit on Wednesday, Nov. 28, following indictment by the Scott County Grand Jury on one count of “obtaining a controlled substance by means of fraud…”
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Demetrius Cain rushed for 138 yards on 17 carries with a touchdown as Hazlehurst beat Charleston 21-20 Saturday to claim the MHSAA Class 3A state championship.
It is the Indians first state title since 2005 and second in school history. […]
Longtime Democratic Mississippi state Sen. Bennie Turner, a lawyer, champion of public education and respected member of the Legislature, died Tuesday. He was 64.
Sen. Hob Bryan, a longtime colleague and friend of the legislator, told The Associated Press that Turner died Tuesday, Nov. 27, at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, where he had been hospitalized with an illness. […]
A Columbus doctor has been sentenced to 13 months in federal prison on three counts of distributing narcotics.
Dr. Mark Burtman was sentenced in federal court in Oxford.
Burtman was charged with illegally distributing prescription painkillers. He pleaded guilty to the three counts on June 28.
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Mississippi death row inmate Ricky Chase continues to argue he is mentally incapacitated and shouldn’t be put to death for a 1990 killing.
A Copiah County judge ruled against him in 2010, but the case is headed back to the state Supreme Court.
Chase’s appeal is one of two death penalty cases scheduled for oral arguments during the court’s November-December term.
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A Greenwood doctor and one other man are set to stand trial April 22 in a murder-for-hire plot that prosecutors say unsuccessfully targeted a local attorney.
The Greenwood Commonwealth reports that the trial date was set this month in Leflore County during a preliminary hearing for Dr. Arnold Smith and Cordarious Robinson.
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