THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — Terrified patrons hurled barstools through windows to escape or threw their bodies protectively on top of friends as a Marine combat veteran killed 12 people at a country music bar in an attack that added Thousand Oaks to the tragic roster of American cities traumatized by mass shootings. Dressed all […]
JACKSON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear an appeal questioning whether a Mississippi prosecutor discriminated against black jurors in a case where a man has been tried six separate times for the same crime. Justices are likely to hear arguments this winter in the appeal by African-American death row inmate Curtis […]
PANAMA CITY, Fla. (AP) — The devastation inflicted by Hurricane Michael came into focus Thursday with rows upon rows of homes found smashed to pieces, and rescue crews began making their way into the stricken areas in hopes of accounting for hundreds of people who may have stayed behind. At least three deaths were blamed […]
PEARL, Miss. (AP) — Miss Mississippi Asya Branch has visited a prison in the state, saying she wants to inspire families with incarcerated parents like hers. Branch’s father, Anthony Branch, plead guilty to burglary, larceny of a dwelling, one count of armed robbery and two counts of kidnapping in 2012. Ever since the age of […]
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The federal government has reopened its investigation into the slaying of Emmett Till, the black teenager whose brutal killing in Mississippi shocked the world and helped inspire the civil rights movement more than 60 years ago. The Justice Department told Congress in a report in March it is reinvestigating Till’s slaying […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Two former employees of a Mississippi veterans home have been charged with manslaughter in the 2017 death of a 93-year-old World War II veteran. Police charged 25-year-old Jeanne Dunn of Oxford and 41-year-old Bridget Austin of Abbeville with culpable negligence manslaughter. Oxford Police Chief Joey East says investigators long suspected Dunn […]
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant on Friday named an attorney who leads a conservative legal group to be the new state auditor. White is an alumnus of the University of Mississippi, where he was a Truman Scholar, a Rhodes Scholar, an intern for the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation and a […]
Mississippi Democrats are nominating state Rep. David Baria to challenge incumbent U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, lining up behind a party stalwart as they reject a bid by a newcomer. Baria is a Bay St. Louis attorney. He beat venture capitalist Howard Sherman of Meridian in Tuesday’s runoff. Many Democratic politicians backed Baria, the state House […]
A case involving the British data firm Cambridge Analytica is before a county judge in the U.S. state of Mississippi, where representatives of a British insurance company and the University of Mississippi have testified under oath that no private data of British citizens was ever transferred to the American university. Britain’s Fair Vote Project continues […]
BRANDON — Jerry Sanders has been sitting in a jail cell on a relatively minor charge of methamphetamine possession for more than a year — longer than the sentence he could get if he’s convicted. And with no money to post bail or hire his own lawyer, he may be sitting there for weeks or […]
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