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Mississippi heading for opioid reckoning
Photo illustration by Adam Robison | Buy at photos.djournal.com By Michaela Gibson Morris Daily Journal Mississippi public health and law enforcement officials fear the state is on the cusp of an...
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One dead in weekend collision
Daily Journal RICHMOND – A wreck claimed the life of a Nettleton man over the weekend. Roy Barber, 68, was killed on Highway 371 south in the Richmond community around 6:45 p.m. Saturday. Barber’s...
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Drug court gives offenders another chance
Lauren Wood | Buy at photos.djournal.comJudge Jim Pounds and court administrator Jennifer Cummings at Booneville Drug Court. By William Moore Daily Journal BOONEVILLE – People convicted on felony drug...
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Houston Sprint Mart robbed, police seek suspects
By Floyd Ingram Chickasaw Journal HOUSTON – Police are questioning one man and seeking others after the Sprint Mart on Highway 8 East was robbed Sunday night. Houston Police Chief Billy Voyles said two...
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Escapees have northeast Mississippi ties
SMITH SCRUGGS Daily Journal GREENWOOD – Law enforcement are still searching for two of the three men who escaped from a Greenwood facility early Monday morning. According to the Mississippi Department...
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Tupelo police searching for gas station robber
Daily Journal TUPELO – The man who robbed a Tupelo gas station at gunpoint Saturday night may be the same man who robbed a Verona bank nearly two weeks ago. “The investigators are very aware of the...
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Second suspect charged in November shooting
TATE Daily Journal STARKVILLE – Starkville police have charged another local man with a shooting incident that happened a month ago. Dequayle L. Tate, 24, of Starkville, was arrested Monday by the...
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Prisons chief: Programs needed to keep ex-inmates on track
FISHER By Emily Wagster Pettus Associated Press JACKSON – Mississippi could improve public safety by investing in programs that help people get their lives on track as they leave prison, state...
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Suspect tied to four armed robberies
Surveillance photo of suspect in Dec. 6 Tupelo armed robbery. By William Moore Daily Journal TUPELO – Area law enforcement officials are searching for the man responsible for at least four armed...
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Arrest made in string of Monroe County car burglaries
MERRITT Monroe Journal A Tupelo man has been arrested in connection to a string of car burglaries. According to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, Risheco Keymon Merritt, 20, of Tupelo, has been...
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Robbery suspects caught after foot chase
Daily Journal TUPELO – The search for robbery suspects through a west Tupelo subdivision kept law enforcement busy and prompted area schools to lockdown. Following a robbery attempt in the West Main...
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Adult son of Columbus mayor shot to death
COLUMBUS (AP) – Authorities say the 39-year-old son of a north Mississippi mayor has been shot to death in his own home. Lowndes County Coroner Greg Merchant tells the Commercial Dispatch that Robert...
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Simulated danger: Citizens take a shot at police training simulator
Adam Robison | Buy at photos.djournal.comLt. Robert Carnathan, right, an instructor with the Tupelo Police Department, works with Citizens Police Academy member Bob Baughman, left, on the proper way to...
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Investigation leads to three drug arrests
GRIFFIN SMITH McGAHA Daily Journal TUPELO – A lengthy undercover investigation into drug activity led to the arrest of three people Tuesday. According to Lee County Sheriff Jim Johnson, deputies and...
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Corinth man killed in Tennessee wreck
Corinth Today A 73-year-old Corinth man was killed in a crash that occurred Wednesday in Hardin County, Tennessee. Thomas Garner was driving southbound on State Highway 142 when an unknown commercial...
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Corinth Police investigating homicide
By Josh Mitchell Corinth Today CORINTH – A 49-year-old Corinth man is dead after being shot multiple times Wednesday, and his death will be ruled a homicide, according to Alcorn County Coroner Jay...
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Woman charged with aggravated assault
MOORE Daily Journal TUPELO – A Sunday domestic violence call ended with a woman being charged with felonious assault. The Tupelo Police Department was called to Goodlett Street on Dec. 11. Officers...
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Three juveniles charged in attempted armed robbery
By William Moore Daily Journal TUPELO – Three juvenile boys, one just 14, are facing charges as adults after an attempted armed robbery/carjacking Wednesday afternoon. According to Tupelo Police...
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Curtis suing government for wrongful arrest
CURTIS By William Moore Daily Journal OXFORD – A Corinth Elvis impersonator is again suing the federal government for wrongful arrest in connection with a spring 2013 case of poison letters sent to the...
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Tippah County inmate gets execution drug hearing
CRAWFORD By Bobby Harrison Daily Journal Jackson Bureau JACKSON – Charles Ray Crawford, on death row for the capital murder of junior college student Kristy Ray at her Chalybeate home in Tippah County,...
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