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$100 the max Mississippi can charge for concealed gun permit; $6 photo fee dropped

JACKSON, Mississippi (AP) — The Mississippi Department of Public Safety on Monday dropped the $6 photo fee it tacked onto the charge for a concealed-carry gun permit starting July 1, and it’s working to refund the money to anyone who has already paid it, spokesman Warren Strain said.

Strain told The Associated Press that the photo fee was dropped in response to an attorney general’s legal opinion that says state law sets the price of a concealed-carry permit at $100, plus an amount to be paid by the applicant for a fingerprint and background check. DPS has set the fingerprint and background check fee at $32… […]

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Mississippi authorities recover abducted 6-year-old, boy unharmed

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Mississippi authorities recover abducted 6-year-old, boy unharmed

LEXINGTON, Mississippi — A man who abducted his 6-year-old son from a Holmes County home has surrendered to authorities.

Highway Patrol spokesman Warren Strain says 43-year-old Terrell Milton Adams called the sheriff’s office Tuesday told deputies where he was and was arrested. The boy, 6-year-old Sirvontez Adams, was not harmed… […]

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Miss. trooper arrested on statutory rape charges

A Mississippi state trooper remains on administrative leave after being arrested on statutory rape charges. Otis Taylor, a trooper based in the Mississippi Highway Patrol’s Brookhaven substation, was arrested Dec. 31 in Franklin County

Warren Strain, spokesman for the highway patrol, said Taylor is on leave without pay pending the outcome of the investigation.

Taylor has worked for the highway patrol since November 2007. […]