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Tupelo man charged with statutory rape
RATLIFF Daily Journal TUPELO – A Lee County man is facing felony charges after having sexual relations with a minor. Daniel Ratliff, 19, of Tupelo, was arrested Monday by the Tupelo Police Department...
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Appeals court tosses order blocking Mississippi executions
By Jeff Amy Associated Press JACKSON – An appeals court Wednesday upheld Mississippi’s method of lethal injection, rejecting arguments from death row inmates who opposed the state’s plan to use drugs...
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Oxford PD charges two with credit card fraud
DARDEN JACKSON OXFORD – Two Tennessee men were arrested in Oxford after fraudulently using credit cards at three businesses. Deon Darden, 26, and Daniel Jackson, 27, both of Memphis, were arrested...
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Late sheriff’s daughter pleads guilty to felony
HARRINGTON By William Moore Daily Journal TUPELO – The daughter of a late Lee County sheriff pleaded guilty to a felony charge Thursday morning and will spend the next two years in prison. Jada Presley...
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One dead in Verona shooting
VERONA – A Thursday evening shooting in north Verona left one man dead and police searching for the shooter. “We had a shooting inside the house at 106 Brevard Place,” said Verona Police Chief J.B....
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Coroner releases name of Verona shooting victim
Daily Journal VERONA – A Thursday evening shooting in north Verona left a 21-year-old man dead and the suspected shooter in jail. Coroner Carolyn Green said Bryson Heard of Verona was killed in the...
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Saltillo woman sentenced for exploiting vulnerable person
Daily Journal A Saltillo woman has been sentenced for felony exploitation of a vulnerable person, Attorney General Jim Hood announced Friday. Demetria Hooper Donelson, 45, entered an open plea for the...
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Nettleton man killed in one-car crash
Daily Journal A Nettleton man was killed in a one-vehicle crash early this morning. Mississippi Highway Patrol troopers responded to MS Highway 6 at County Road 830 near Plantersville around midnight....
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Brother charged with Verona murder
HEARD By William Moore Daily Journal TUPELO – A 20-year-old Verona man has been charged with murder for killing his older brother. Christopher Heard, of 1906 Brevard Place, Verona, was arraigned Friday...
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Fire destroys Tupelo furniture plant building
By William Moore Daily Journal TUPELO – A fire early Friday morning destroyed a large manufacturing building at an Eason Boulevard furniture plant. Tupelo firemen were called to Sleeper Kraft around 1...
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Tupelo man charged with leaving the scene of an accident
RUSSELL Daily Journal TUPELO – A Tupelo man has been arrested for a hit-and-run incident that injured a pedestrian. The Tupelo Police Department arrested Antonio L. Russell, 48, and charged him with...
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Burnsville man faces felony drug charges
Daily Journal IUKA – A Friday welfare check led the Tishomingo County Sheriff’s Officer to arrest a Burnsville man. Deputies went with social workers to a County Road 260 home to check out reports of...
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Booneville woman dies in two-vehicle crash
Daily Journal A Booneville woman was killed in a two-vehicle crash Friday afternoon in Prentiss County. Mississippi Highway Patrol troopers responded to the intersection of MS Highway 4 and County Road...
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Byhalia man arrested, charged in killing
BRENTS BYHALIA – A Byhalia man suspected in the Friday killing of a Byhalia woman at her residence was arrested in Chickasaw County on Saturday. Chester Dallas Brents, 65, is facing murder charges,...
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Sunday morning accident leaves one dead
Monroe Journal EGYPT – A Monroe County man is dead after a single-vehicle accident Sunday morning. According to Monroe County Coroner Alan Gurley, John Frederick Moore, 42, of Egypt, died Sunday as a...
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Officer shot in Clarksdale; two questioned
Associated Press CLARKSDALE – A man believed to have shot a northwest Mississippi police officer point-blank in the face and a man believed to have joined him in an earlier robbery were being...
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Two hospitalized after morning wreck in Corinth
By Josh Mitchell Corinth Today CORINTH – Two people were hospitalized Monday morning after a two-vehicle accident on Highway 72 East, according to Lt. David Smith with the Corinth Fire Department. Both...
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Ripley man files lawsuit against former jailers
Corinth Today A Ripley man has filed a lawsuit alleging violations of constitutional rights. Richard Dion Drewery filed the civil lawsuit in U.S. District in Aberdeen against Michael Hudson and Pat...
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1 charged in Clarksdale officer’s shooting
ROBINSON By Jeff Amy Associated Press JACKSON – Police have charged a 19-year-old man in the Saturday shooting of a Clarksdale police officer. Assistant Clarksdale Police Chief Robbie Linley says...
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Former purchasing clerk reports to federal prison in April
RHODES By William Moore Daily Journal ABERDEEN – William Paul Rhodes has seven weeks of freedom remaining before he has to report to a federal prison in Alabama. Rhodes, the former purchasing clerk for...
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