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Fulton man faces drug charges
WINSTEAD Daily Journal TUPELO – A traffic stop in Mooreville led to the arrest of a Fulton man on felony drug charges. Deputies responded Sunday to a business at the intersection of Highways 178 and...
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Porter pleads guilty, gets life sentence
By Floyd Ingram Chickasaw Journal HOUSTON – Will Porter plead guilty to murder and was sentenced to life in Chickasaw County Circuit Court on the last day of the March term. The case stems from the...
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Corinth man charged with capital murder
MEEKS Daily Journal CORINTH – An Alcorn County man could be facing the death penalty following the Saturday shooting deaths of two people in the Fields community. Michael Lee Meeks, 24, of Corinth was...
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Probable cause hearing set for Vardaman coach
By Floyd Ingram Chickasaw Journal PITTSBORO – A Vardaman coach will be in court Wednesday morning for a probable cause hearing after allegations surfaced last week of inappropriate contact with a...
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Verona residents speak up for former police chief in meeting
Adam Robison | Buy at photos.djournal.comVerona resident B.J. Fields addresses the board of alderman regarding the sudden departure of Police Chief Bill Johnson on Tuesday night at Verona City Hall....
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Wreck kills one teen, injures another
By Adam Armour Itawamba County Times Itawamba authorities are still investigating a Tuesday evening car accident that claimed the life of an Aberdeen teenager. Alexis Haywood, 17, was killed when the...
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Video of South Carolina police shooting inflames debate
In this April 4 frame from video provided by Attorney L. Chris Stewart, who is representing the family of Walter Lamer Scott, Scott appears to be running away from City Patrolman Michael Thomas Slager,...
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Vardaman softball coach arrested
By Floyd Ingram Chickasaw Journal PITTSBORO – A Vardaman coach was formally charged and arrested Wednesday morning after allegations of inappropriate contact with a student were reported last week to...
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev convicted in Boston Marathon bombing
TSARNAEV By Denise Lavoie AP Legal Affairs Writer BOSTON – Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted on all charges Wednesday in the Boston Marathon bombing by a federal jury that now must decide whether the...
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Family of hanging victim wants more information
BYRD By Emily Wagster Pettus Associated Press JACKSON – Lawyers hired by the family of a black man who was found hanging in Mississippi said Wednesday that they are hiring independent experts,...
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Mold concerns prompt Tupelo Police Department move to airport
Lauren Wood | Buy at photos.djournal.com The Tupelo Police Department will move from its Court Street, top, and Front Street, below, offices to the former Mississippi National Guard aviation facility...
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Most boards leave hiring to heads of departments
GILMORE By William Moore Daily Journal TUPELO – Verona is among a small group of cities in Northeast Mississippi where the aldermen interview and hire all city employees, including police officers. A...
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Starkville traffic stop lands three in jail on drug charges
HUDSON GRASAREE Daily Journal STARKVILLE – A routine traffic stop Thursday by the Starkville Police Department resulted in three arrested on drug charges. Officers stopped a car driven by Akem Olajuwan...
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Oxford man loses appeal of sentence in school threats case
JACKSON (AP) – A federal appeals court has upheld the six-year sentence given a man who pleaded guilty to making threats against a Mississippi school. A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court...
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State wants drug supplier’s name kept secret during appeal
HOOD JACKSON (AP) – Attorney General Jim Hood has asked the Mississippi Supreme Court to keep secret the identity of the state’s execution drug supplier while he appeals a state judge’s order that the...
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Pedestrian killed on North Gloster
Lauren Wood | Buy at photos.djournal.comEmergency personnel work the scene of a two-car accident Friday night on Gloster Street. A pedestrian was killed. By William Moore Daily Journal TUPELO – A man...
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Tupelo Police eye latent print lab
By William Moore Daily Journal TUPELO – Tupelo Police hope to use a federal grant and a retired expert to establish a latent fingerprint lab in Tupelo. Currently, detectives have to send any...
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Charges pending in crash that killed teenager
PHILLIPS By Adam Armour Itawamba County Times Itawamba authorities say they plan to bring charges against a Nettleton man involved in last week’s one-car accident that killed a teenage girl. According...
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Caledonia man charged in car burning
JACKSON By Ray Van Dusen Monroe Journal A Caledonia man is in jail after allegedly setting fire to a vehicle. The Monroe County Sheriff’s Department arrested Travis Lamar Jackson, 26, of Caledonia....
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Investigation ongoing in fatal Gloster Street crash
Lauren Wood | Buy at photos.djournal.com A firefighter walks by a two-car accident Friday night on Gloster Street. A pedestrian was struck and killed by a Jeep Cherokee, which then hit a truck head-on....
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