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Alleged Craigslist counterfeit scammers arrested
JUDD WILBORN Monroe Journal Two people were arrested in an apparent online counterfeit scheme. The Monroe County Sheriff’s Department, with the assistance of the U.S. Federal Marshal Service, took into...
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Alabama man arrested on cocaine charge
CRIBBS Monroe Journal A man was arrested on a cocaine charge Sunday. The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office’s Narcotics Unit arrested Cedric Demon Cribbs, 33, of Guin, Alabama. Cribbs is charged with...
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Pontotoc woman sentenced in forgery case
Daily Journal JACKSON – A Pontotoc woman is going to prison for forgery, Attorney General Jim Hood announced Tuesday. Kimberly Gilleylen, 40, of Pontotoc, appeared before Union County Circuit Court...
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Nettleton man arrested on meth charge
Monroe Journal A Nettleton man was arrested on a meth charge. The Monroe County Sheriff’s Department Narcotics Unit arrested Timothy Wayne Jenkins, 43, on Tuesday. Jenkins is charged with possession of...
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Houston man dies in Trace accident
By Floyd Ingram Chickasaw Journal A Houston man died in an early morning one-vehicle accident Wednesday on the Natchez Trace in Chickasaw County. Jamie Adams, 41, of Houston, was pronounced dead at...
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Man caught in Itawamba County chase
Daily Journal The Fulton Police Department and Itawamba County Sheriff’s Department nabbed a man who let police on a chase this afternoon. Someone was driving a stolen car out of Horn Lake and ran from...
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Tupelo man charged in home burglaries
Daily Journal TUPELO – A man has been arrested in connection to a series of home burglaries in Tupelo. William Larry ‘Bill” McNutt Jr., 38, of Tupelo, has been charged with three counts of burglary of...
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Suspect in Collum’s death cleared
COLLUM By Adam Armour Itawamba County Times FULTON – An Itawamba County grand jury has exonerated 19-year-old Charles “Cody” Weaver of any criminal wrongdoing in the May 9 death of Sgt. John Collum....
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Click to view slideshow. By William Moore Daily Journal TUPELO – The Tupelo Police Department created a pair of medals to honor the actions and sacrifice of two officers. Patrol officer Joseph Maher...
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Alcorn County sheriff sets priorities for inmate labor
By Lena Mitchell Daily Journal Corinth Bureau CORINTH – The Alcorn County sheriff assured Corinth officials during Tuesday’s regular city board meeting that providing inmate labor to the city street...
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Officials urge caution with Jamaica scam
By William Moore Daily Journal TUPELO – People in Northeast Mississippi have been getting phone calls saying they have won the Jamaican lottery or won a cruise to Jamaica. It is a scam. “It’s like the...
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Fulton woman dies in one-car accident
By Adam Armour Itawamba County Times FULTON – Officials with the Itawamba County Sheriff’s Department have reported a fatal wreck on Hardens Chapel Road. Evelyn Jean Truelove, 81, of Fulton, died in a...
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Pontotoc escapee captured
By William Moore Daily Journal PONTOTOC — Life on the run lasted less than two days for a 21-year-old Pontotoc man. Nathaniel Butler, described as a non-violent offender, was on laundry duty at the...
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Man killed in head-on collision near Kossuth
By Lena Mitchell Daily Journal Corinth Bureau KOSSUTH – An Alabama man was killed in a two-vehicle collision Friday afternoon on Highway 2 east of Kossuth. Juan DeJuan, 67, of Decatur, Alabama, was...
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Police chief candidates prepare for election
Three Corinth policemen are up for election in the Chief’s race. (Courtesy) By Lena Mitchell Daily Journal Corinth Bureau CORINTH – Three current Corinth policemen are vying for the top spot in their...
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Damage limits in Mississippi tort laws challenged
By Jack Elliott Jr. Associated Press JACKSON – The Mississippi Supreme Court is being asked to overturn a state judge’s ruling that a legislatively imposed cap on how much juries can award in...
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Men arrested in standoff now face sexual battery charges
BRANTLEY Daily Journal Two men arrested in a recent standoff in Monroe County now face sexual battery charges. Affidavits were signed at Monroe County Justice Court on Steven Alton Brantley, 53, and...
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Vandals strike Ballard Park again
By Sheena Barnett Daily Journal TUPELO – Tupelo Park and Rec officials are asking the public to help them catch vandals who have damaged Tupelo’s parks over the summer. The latest damage is a broken...
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Tupelo man arrested in Monroe County on drug charge
ADAIR Daily Journal A Tupelo man has been arrested on a drug selling charge. Kenneth George Adair, 71, was arrested by the Monroe County Sheriff’s Department Narcotics Unit on Monday after a traffic...
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Suspicious package at Aberdeen courthouse investigated
By Ray Van Dusen Monroe Journal ABERDEEN – According to Jeff Woodfin, Chief Deputy with the U.S. Marshal’s District Headquarters in Oxford, authorities are investigating a suspicious package with a...
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