Three former Department of Corrections officials were sentenced Wednesday for using excessive force against an inmate, involving the use of dangerous weapons and resulting in bodily injury. All three defendants previously pleaded guilty to their respective roles assaulting the…
PEARL, Miss. (AP) — An inmate who escaped from a Mississippi prison received an ambulance ride to a hospital after telling someone he was bleeding because he had been in a motorcycle accident, a state Department of Corrections spokesman said…
BRANDON, MISS. (AP) — A man was injured during an encounter with an alligator near a Mississippi waterfront park where several other alligators have been removed this month, according to wildlife officials. The man was swimming with a group in the Ross Barnett…
A nationwide search is still on for a man wanted for murder and aggravated assault. Mississippi Bureau of Investigation Spokesman Warren Strain says the suspect, 28-year-old Alex Bridges Deaton, is the boyfriend of 30-year-old Heather Robinson, who was found dead…
Following 2 separate weekend stops Mississippi highway patrol seized more than 30 pounds of drugs in east Rankin County. According to officials, members of the Mississippi highway patrol interdiction unit seized approximately 19 pounds of "ice," a purified form of…
The former head of the Mississippi Department of Corrections finds himself on the other side of the law as he and a Rankin County businessman appear in court on federal charges.
Tuesday, the Mississippi State Department of Health (M.S.D.H.) confirms the death of a Madison County resident from West Nile virus (W.N.V.), the second Mississippi death from W.N.V. in 2014.