By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour was hospitalized Wednesday after wrecking his SUV while swerving to avoid a dog on a rural road, law enforcement officials said. Barbour, 75, had the wreck near Wolf Lake…
YAZOO CITY, Miss. (AP) — Multiple tornadoes have caused damage across Mississippi, destroying homes and uprooting trees. But no injuries have been reported. A line of severe storms rolled through the state Sunday. Meteorologists declared a “tornado emergency” for Tupelo…
Coronavirus numbers at a Mississippi prison continue to climb at an alarming rate. The Federal Bureau of Prisons is reporting 71 new cases among inmates at the Federal Correctional Institute in Yazoo City, 64 of those testing positive at the…
Three guards at a Mississippi prison have been arrested. The guards, whose names have not been released, work at Yazoo County Regional Correction Facility. WLBT-TV reports the three are charged with sexual battery after being accused last month of having…
The four victims of a Yazoo City nightclub shooting have been identified: 36- year-old Edward Johnson, 30-year-old Kevin Johnson, 32-year-old Jerrandan Allen, and 35-year-old Gabriel Townsend. U.S. Marshals took 27-year-old Briddell Barber, the man accused in the killings, into custody…