The Pearl River County Sheriff's Department announced that the pair being sought out of Colorado have been taken into custody. Johnny Rankin Morris and Hailey Diane Cole are wanted in connection with a missing person and a possible homicide in…
OAK GROVE, Miss. (AP) — A sheriff said a Mississippi man will be charged with attempted capital murder after shooting a Lamar County sheriff’s deputy in the back hours and hitting another deputy’s police vehicle. A deputy, named by WDAM-TV as Steve…
By Associated Press HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — Law enforcement is investigating after a viral video shared on Snapchat appears to show a teenager shooting a dog as another teen laughs about it. The Hattiesburg American reports that the video was…
Deputies arrested two people in connection to a body found in a freezer inside a home in Lamar County Tuesday. The man’s body was discovered by a family member and neighbor. Two persons of interest were taken into custody for…
Officials are stating that another possible tornado touched down just north of us in Lamar County yesterday morning. A home and an elementary school were damaged from fallen trees, while several power and trees lines are also down. The storm…
Last night’s storm that moved through Lamar County has been confirmed as a tornado. The National Weather Service confirmed that an EF-2 tornado touched down. A lot of the damage was reported on Rocky Branch Road, Old Salt Road and…
While the Coast was lucky, receiving with little to no damage from Tuesday’s severe weather, those storms were deadly for areas a little further north.
The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (M.E.M.A.) has received confirmation of four deaths and at least 20 injuries from apparent tornadoes and severe weather that struck the state on Tuesday afternoon.