Education

Alcorn State chemistry professor Noland Boyd killed in wreck

VICKSBURG, Miss. (AP) — An Alcorn State University associate professor riding his motorcycle over the weekend was killed by a teenage driver, according to authorities. The Vicksburg Post reports Dr. Noland Boyd was apparently struck from behind […]

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Father, son die when rear-ended Jeep flips off I-55 overpass

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Police in Jackson, Mississippi, say a father and son from Illinois died when their Jeep was rear-ended and flipped over the railing of an Interstate 55 overpass. Multiple media outlets report […]

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Commuter train smashes into SUV on tracks, killing 7 people

By KILEY ARMSTRONG VALHALLA, N.Y. (AP) — A packed commuter train slammed into a sport utility vehicle on the tracks at a crossing on Tuesday night, killing seven people, injuring several others and sending hundreds of […]

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Columbia man dies after SUV plummets off bridge into Pearl River

COLUMBIA, Mississippi (AP) — A south Mississippi man his died after he lost control of his sport utility vehicle and it plunged into the Pearl River. Authorities say 49-year-old Vencient Robinson of Columbia was headed […]

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Two Ole Miss students killed in head-on collision

Two University of Mississippi students, a brother and sister, were killed Saturday morning in a car accident near the intersection of U.S. Highway 278 and State Highway 7 in Oxford.

The car carrying Katherine Sarah Wheat, a communication science and disorders major, and her brother William John Wheat, an accountancy major, was reportedly traveling westbound when it was hit by another vehicle. […]

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Nurse dies in traffic accident

Authorities said a nurse from Arkansas was killed in a traffic accident Monday after the vehicle she was riding in ran off the roadway and landed in a creek.

Coroner Alan Gurley said the woman has been identified as 59-year-old Linda White of Osceola, Ark. […]

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Merdian man, 19, dies in Jones County accident

A 19-year-old Jones County Community College student from Meridian was killed in a weekend traffic accident.

The Hattiesburg American reports that the accident was reported Saturday morning around 4:30 a.m. at Ellisville Trucker’s Crossing. […]