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FBI continues investigation into black man’s hanging death
BYRD By Emily Wagster Pettus Associated Press PORT GIBSON – The FBI is consulting with its behavioral analysis unit as it continues investigating the hanging death of a black man in Mississippi. Jason...
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Accident leads to multiple charges for Amory man
PARHAM Monroe Journal An Amory man faces several charges following a traffic accident. Monroe County deputies arrested Dustin Mark Webb Parham, 31, on Monday. Parham was the driver of a vehicle that...
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Court hears arguments in Crawford’s rape conviction appeal
CRAWFORD By Jack Elliott Jr. Associated Press JACKS0N – The attorney for death row inmate Charles Ray Crawford argued Monday before the Mississippi Supreme Court that the man’s 1994 rape conviction...
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City Council expected to approve police HQ contract
The final pre-construction price tag on the long-awaited new Tupelo police headquarters at Front and Franklin streets has come in under the $10 million limit set by city officials. (Courtesy) By Rod...
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Mississippi’s only abortion clinic damaged by vandalism
By Emily Wagster Pettus Associated Press JACKSON – Jackson police are trying to find out who damaged a generator and two security cameras at Mississippi’s only abortion clinic. Clinic director Shannon...
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Jumpertown couple charged with kidnapping
KEITH DOTSON ALICIA DOTSON By William Moore Daily Journal BOONEVILLE – The Prentiss County Sheriff’s Office arrested a Jumpertown couple and charged them with kidnapping a man on March 1. According to...
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City Council approves new police department headquarters
By Rod Guajardo Daily Journal TUPELO – The City Council unanimously approved Tuesday bids and a contract for a new headquarters for the Tupelo Police Department’s headquarters on Front and Franklin...
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Aberdeen man recovering from gunshot wounds
By Ray Van Dusen Monroe Journal ABERDEEN – An Aberdeen man is recovering at University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson from gunshot wounds sustained in a March 19 incident outside of an...
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Booneville man charged in home burglary
WILEMON By William Moore Daily Journal BOONEVILLE – Prentiss County Sheriff’s Deputies investigating a February home burglary arrested a man and seized a cache of weapons. Investigators with a search...
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Black mold forces police to move
By William Moore Daily Journal TUPELO – Black mold in a downtown Tupelo building has forced the Tupelo Police Department to relocate its detectives division. Tupelo Police Chief Bart Aguirre confirmed...
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Verona man arrested, allegedly with 2 pounds of pot
RAINES By William Moore Daily Journal TUPELO – An investigation into illegal drug activity led to the arrest of a man who had only been in Lee County for a couple of months. Agents with the Lee County...
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Trial delayed for blogger in Rose Cochran photo case
KELLY MADISON (AP) – Trial has been delayed until June 8 for a political blogger accused of photographing bedridden Sen. Thad Cochran’s wife, without permission, in a nursing home. The Clarion-Ledger...
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Appeals court affirms Lee County ruling on Moise
Daily Journal JACKSON – The Mississippi Court of Appeals affirmed the August 2013 conviction and sentence of Richard Moise in Lee County Circuit Court. According to testimony during the two-day trial,...
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Weapons seized in prison shakedowns
HOLLY SPRINGS (AP) – Corrections officials have conducted a shakedown at the Marshall County Correctional Facility, seizing weapons, cellphones and other contraband at the private prison that could...
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Nettleton man charged with church burglary
By Adam Armour Itawamba Times Itawamba County authorities have arrested a Nettleton man they believe is responsible for a local church burglary. Jeffery Wayne Alexander, 34, of Nettleton, has been...
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Fulton woman charged in machete attack
JOHNHAT By Adam Armour Itawamba Times A Fulton woman has been charged with using a machete to attack a man. Micheale Johnhat, 25, of 5172 Highway 25 South, Fulton, was arrested on Wednesday and charged...
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Golden resident charged with ATV theft
VINSON By Adam Armour Itawamba Times A Golden area man has been arrested and charged with stealing a utility ATV. Deputies with the Itawamba County Sheriff’s Department picked up Glenn Bradford Vinson,...
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Man charged after gun fired in parking lot
Daily Journal TUPELO – A Tupelo man was jailed after allegedly shooting at a shoplifting suspect Thursday morning. According to Tupelo Police Lt. Jerry Davis, the incident happened around 10:30 a.m. at...
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Sartain gets 37 months in motorcycle deaths
Daily Journal OXFORD – A man accused of killing two motorcyclists on the Natchez Trace Parkway in August was sentenced to more than three years in prison Thursday. Donnie William Sartain, 50, of...
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Sheriff warns of scam involving missed jury duty
JOHNSON By William Moore Daily Journal TUPELO – Several Lee County residents have fallen victim to a new scam involving missed jury duty and the threat of an arrest. “In the last week, we have gotten...
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