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Blue Steel Challenge returns Saturday
Libby Ezell | Buy at photos.djournal.com Brian Otters fires at one of many targets at last year’s Blue Steel competition. By William Moore Daily Journal TUPELO – Law enforcement officers from across...
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Officials: Spice, bath salts still a problem
By William Moore Daily Journal TUPELO – Synthetic drugs like Spice and bath salts offer a legal high, but the substances can carry a high price. Designed to mimic marijuana and amphetamines, the drugs...
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Slain nuns leave void in Mississippi community they served
Jonell Payton, right, comforts Lisa Dew, outside the Durant home of two slain Catholic nuns on Thursday. The nuns worked as nurses at the Lexington Medical Clinic, where Dew was the office manager. (AP...
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Monroe County man, juvenile charged in separate cases
Monroe Journal Two arrests have been reported in Monroe County in separate cases. Derrious Deandre Fair, 28, of Prairie, was arrested in Aberdeen on Wednesday and charged with possession of stolen...
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Chickasaw man arrested on drug charge
SULLIVAN Chickasaw Journal A traffic stop has resulted in the arrest of a local man on a drug charge. On Tuesday, Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics Agents and deputies with the Chickasaw County Sheriff...
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Two teens arrested in New Albany armed robbery
KING New Albany Gazette NEW ALBANY – New Albany police made a quick arrest following an alleged armed robbery at Trio Sales on East Bankhead Street on Tuesday afternoon. Police Chief Chris Robertson...
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Two teens arrested, charged as adults
Daily Journal TUPELO – Two 17-year-old males are facing felony charges as adults after a Thursday afternoon incident. Tupelo Police responded to the theft of a car and the burglary of a home on Augusta...
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Oxford High student suspended, facing sanctions for role in threat
By John Davis Oxford Citizen An Oxford High student is suspended and possibly facing additional sanctions for taking part in a threat against the school Aug. 19. The school district locked down OHS, as...
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Man charged in death of Mississippi nuns
SANDERS Daily Journal A Kosciusko man has been arrested and charged in the deaths of two nuns in Durant. Rodney Earl Sanders, 46, has been charged with two counts of capital murder, according to...
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Supreme Court upholds ruling against late judge
LITTLEJOHN By William Moore Daily Journal JACKSON – The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled against the family of late Chancery Court Judge Talmadge Littlejohn. Earlier this month, Littlejohn’s estate...
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Jogger shot on NEMCC campus, suspect arrested
By William Moore Daily Journal BOONEVILLE – A person of interest has been detained in a Thursday night shooting on the campus of Northeast Mississippi Community College. In a written statement,...
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Starkville superintendent convicted on assault charges
STARKVILLE (AP) – A Mississippi school superintendent has been found guilty of misdemeanor assault charges after admitting he fired a handgun into the air during a confrontation with a neighbor last...
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Changes in jail policies for poor applauded
By Patsy Brumfield Mississippi Today JACKSON – Mississippi legal leaders urged fellow attorneys to be more involved with helping the state’s poor resolve legal issues as the state’s Access to Justice...
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Overcrowding, dilapidation force the need for a new jail
By Adam Armour Itawamba County Times FULTON – If there’s a person in Itawamba County who stubbornly refuses to believe jail overcrowding is a problem, jail administrator Vicky Russell will gladly set...
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Lafayette teen killed in one-vehicle wreck
By Chaning Green Oxford Citizen The Lafayette community is mourning the loss of a local student who was killed in a car accident Sunday evening. Around 6 p.m. on County Road 100, 14-year-old Walker...
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Starkville Police make four felony arrests
BLACK CAROTHER CONWILL EDMONDS Daily Journal STARKVILLE – Just two traffic stops netted the Starkville Police four arrests on weapons and drug charges. During the “Stop the Knock” enforcement campaign...
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Iuka men charged with trailer theft
LANIER DEGRAW Daily Journal IUKA – The Tishomingo County Sheriff’s Office and the Iuka Police Department joined forces to arrest two men on larceny charges. The two departments pooled their resources...
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Lee County inmate facing more charges
HAMMOCK Daily Journal TUPELO – An attempt to bribe a jailer to bring in a cell phone has landed a Lee County Adult Jail prisoner in hot water. Lee County Sheriff Jim Johnson said Kerry Ryan Hammock,...
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Alcorn County man charged with attempted murder
LAUDERDALE By Josh Mitchell Corinth Today An Alcorn County man was charged with attempted murder and shooting into an occupied dwelling in an incident that occurred Thursday. Billy Wayne Lauderdale,...
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Tracking down criminals may cost more
JOHNSON By William Moore Daily Journal TUPELO – Changes to a statewide computer network could force law enforcement agencies to pay an additional $5,000 a year to access the national index of criminal...
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