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Man charged with putting noose on statue to plead guilty
By Jeff Amy Associated Press JACKSON – A man charged with hanging a noose around a college statue dedicated to integration and diversity is going to plead guilty. Federal court filings show former...
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Starkville police charge two with burglary of weapon
STARKVILLE – Two Starkville men are in the Oktibbeha County Jail after being charged with stealing a firearm. Starkville Police responded to a residential burglary. The investigation led police to...
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Child dies in Ballard Park accident
Daily Journal According to Tupelo Mayor Jason Shelton, the city of Tupelo is asking for thoughts and prayers for the family of a 10-year-old athlete from Olive Branch who died as the result of a...
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Death-row inmate Corrothers denied appeal by US high court
CORROTHERS JACKSON (AP) – The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear a Mississippi death row inmate’s petition for a new trial. Caleb Corrothers argues he was the victim of mistaken eyewitness...
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Blogger gets 2.5 years over senator’s wife photo conspiracy
KELLY By Emily Wagster Pettus Associated Press CANTON – A blogger who pleaded guilty in a conspiracy to break into a nursing home and shoot unauthorized video of the ailing wife of a U.S. senator was...
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Thaxton man charged with meth possession
NULL Monroe Journal A Thaxton man is facing drug charges in Monroe County. Scott G. Null, 51, was arrested Saturday by the Amory Police Department and charged with felony possession of crystal...
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Motorcycle chase ends in wreck, drug arrest
By Adam Armour Itawamba County Times An early morning chase between local law enforcement authorities and a Carolina man on a sports bike ended with a wreck and a drug arrest. Officials with the...
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Two dead in Union County crash
Daily Journal Two people are dead after a crash in Union County on Monday. According to the Mississippi Highway Patrol, troopers responded to a one-vehicle wreck on Highway 78 near Myrtle at 7:30 a.m....
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Marshall County deputy shot, suspect in custody
SELLERS By William Moore Daily Journal HOLLY SPRINGS – A Marshall County man is being held on a $2 million bond after shooting a Marshall County deputy who was responding to a domestic dispute early...
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Changing of the guard at Calhoun City PD
William Moore | Buy at photos.djournal.comCalhoun City Assistant Police Chief Tito Lopez, left, will take over the department when Police Chief Benny Langford retires on Sept. 30. By William Moore...
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Baldwyn man charged in burning death of daughter
FLOYD By William Moore Daily Journal TUPELO – A Baldwyn man has been charged with second degree murder in the death of his 7-year-old daughter. Investigators believe David S. Floyd, 28, was responsible...
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Smithville man dies from injury suffered in accident
By Ray Van Dusen Monroe Journal A Smithville man died Monday as the result of a head injury he suffered in a June 5 accident. The one-vehicle wreck happened on Parham Store Road a half-mile east of...
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Messages show plot to get photo of senator’s bedridden wife
KELLY By Emily Wagster Pettus Associated Press CANTON – Newly released investigative documents show that during last year’s Republican primary for a U.S. Senate seat in Mississippi, supporters of a tea...
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Mantachie man facing drug, gun charges
DUNAWAY By Adam Armour Itawamba County Times A lengthy investigation by Itawamba law enforcement authorities has ended with the arrest of a Mantachie man who’s accused of possessing and possibly...
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Booneville woman faces meth charge
BLASINGAME Daily Journal A Booneville woman is facing a drug charge. Tommie Renae Blasingame, 36, was arrested June 4 on an outstanding warrant. At the time of the arrest, deputies discovered a felony...
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Booneville man charged in stabbing incident
OWENS Daily Journal A Booneville man is in jail and charged with stabbing a juvenile. Wesley Dale Owens, 44, was arrested June 13 and charged with aggravated assault. Police say that on May 29,...
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Guntown man arrested during traffic stop
LEE By Adam Armour Itawamba County Times Authorities with the Itawamba County Sheriff’s Department have arrested a Guntown man they believe was planning to sell crystal methamphetamine. On June 10,...
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Police investigating shooting of family dog
CLEVELAND (AP) – A Cleveland, Mississippi, police officer is on administrative leave while authorities investigate the fatal shooting of a family dog. Police Chief Buster Bingham has not released the...
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Tax collector candidate charged with identity theft
By Adam Armour Itawamba County Times Itawamba investigators have arrested and charged a candidate in Itawamba County’s tax collector race for allegedly committing identity theft. Matthew Perry, 30, of...
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White gunman caught in killing of 9 in historic black church
Noah Nicolaisen, of Charleston, S.C., kneels at a makeshift memorial down the street from where a white man opened fire Wednesday night during a prayer meeting inside the Emanuel AME Church, killing...
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