Man Faces Child Sex Charges In Mississippi & Georgia
Deputies say the charges in Georgia stem from instances involving three different children.
Archives: 2018
Warm and Sunny This Week, but Winter Is Not Done Yet…
TONIGHT: Temperatures will fall into the low 40s. Look for a slight up-tick in cloud cover and light north winds. TUESDAY: Plenty of sunshine on Tuesday again as temperatures push into the upper 60s again. We’ll look for a north wind to continue but keep most of the clouds away. Overnight lows in the upper 30s and low 40s. WED/THU: We climb into…
Monday Morning Wreck Kills One
Jeep Collides With Log Truck
Kidnapping Charges Filed Following Chase
Multiple Counties Involved In Case
Car Lot Burglar Sought
Crime Stoppers of Northeast Mississippi along with Pontotoc Police Dept. is requesting your assistance identifying the person responsible for Burglary of a Vehicle. On Friday April 6, 2018, at approximately 0730 an unknown white male arrived at Raines Auto Sales located at 234 West Oxford Street in Pontotoc. Subsequently a Nissan Titan truck that was for sale on the lot…
NFL player accused of making false bomb threat at LAX
This 2017 file photo shows Trevor Davis of the Green Bay Packers NFL football team. AP LOS ANGELES — Police say Green Bay Packers wide receiver Trevor Davis was arrested after falsely claiming to have explosives while checking in for a flight at Los Angeles International Airport. Airport police spokesman Rob Pedregon said Monday that Davis was booked on a charge…
Ex-Philly narcotics officer sentenced in drugs-for-sex case
PHILADELPHIA – A retired Philadelphia narcotics officer who pleaded guilty to exchanging drugs for sex with two women has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison. The officer had been part of a task force battling the opioid epidemic when he met the women in the notorious “Badlands” of north Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that 50-year-old Stanley Davis spent…
Why Los Angeles is painting some of its roads white
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Cindy Hyde-Smith sworn in as Mississippi’s first female senator
A special election for the seat is scheduled in November.
Amory Students Rocket Into National Finals
AHS Rocket Team D.C. Bound
Salmonella in chicken salad kills 1, sickens 265 in 8 states
Other states included Indiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
Colo. man sentenced after 2nd conviction in wife's 2001 murder
Jennifer Blagg’s body was found in a dump near refuse belonging to her husband’s company in 2001 GOLDEN, Colo. — A Colorado man convicted for the second time in his wife’s 2001 murder was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Michael Blagg was convicted in Jennifer Blagg’s death in Mesa County in 2004. “48 Hours”…
Why L.A. is paying $40K per mile to paint its streets white
In the race to combat climate change, the city of Los Angeles is employing a surprising new tactic — covering its streets in a grayish-white coating known as CoolSeal. It’s sprayed onto the roadway with trucks, then spread across the surface with squeegees. However, its impact extends far beyond the edge of the pavement. Los Angeles, like so many other…
Court rules in case about gender pay gap
SAN FRANCISCO — Employers cannot pay women less than men for the same work based on differences in their salaries at previous jobs, a federal appeals court said Monday. Pay differences based on prior salaries are discriminatory under the federal Equal Pay Act, a unanimous 11-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said. The decision overturned a ruling…
Police: Bloody ropes found in home of missing woman's ex
Sara Gomez is missing from Bend, Oregon KOIN BEND, Ore. – Authorities say officers found bloody ropes, blood puddles and smears of blood when they searched the apartment of an ex-boyfriend of a missing Oregon woman. The Bend Bulletin reports Bend Police Chief Jim Porter says they are waiting to hear back from the state crime lab on if the…
Inmates: Conditions at prison unconstitutional
Inmates have testified to U.S. District Judge William Barbour Jr. that they live in poor conditions with inadequate health care.
Fugitive who confessed double slaying on Facebook found dead
EAST RIDGE, Tenn. — A fugitive appears to have killed himself in Mississippi after announcing on social media that he killed his mother and a friend in Tennessee. Casey Lawhorn apparently died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after allegedly shooting Vi Lawhorn and his friend Avery Gaines, of Ringgold, Georgia, on Sunday in East Ridge, Tennessee, according to a statement from…
Girl with 3D-printed hand throws first pitch at Giants game
The San Francisco Giants added a special pitcher to their roster for the day. It was small — yet fierce — Hailey Dawson, who has a 3D-printed hand. The energetic 8-year-old from Nevada was invited to throw out the first pitch at the Giants game on Sunday. Dawson was born with a rare birth defect called Poland syndrome, which affected…
Arizona sends National Guard to Mexico border
PHOENIX — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey says 225 National Guard members are heading to the Mexico border to back President Trump’s fight against illegal immigration. “These troops will be helping our federal partners with any support role responsibilities that they need,” Ducey tweeted Monday, and said more troops will arrive at the border on Tuesday. These troops will be helping…
Active Tuberculosis case confirmed at Ole Miss
Those with active TB will experience symptoms like fever, weight loss, and cough.
Grandmother of starved teen sentenced in her death
ADEL, Iowa — The adoptive grandmother of a central Iowa teenager who starved to death has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after admitting she didn’t seek medical attention for the dying girl. Sixty-three-year-old Carla Bousman, of Perry, was sentenced Friday after pleading guilty to neglect of a dependent person and six other charges in the May 2017 death…
TB Case Confirmed On Ole Miss Campus
School Working To Determine Amount Of Exposure
Teens sentenced in car passenger's sandbag toss death
TOLEDO, Ohio – Four teens charged with throwing a sandbag from a Toledo overpass and causing the death of a car passenger have been sentenced to time in a youth treatment facility, reports CBS affiliate WTOL. Three of the teens were 14 at the time of the incident, and the fourth was 13, according to the station. Four teens are…
Tennessee murder suspect found dead in Jasper County
The body was found about a hundred yards from Lawhorn’s car.