A high court in the US state of South Carolina has blocked two executions until the inmates are given the choice of death by electrocution or firing squad. A new law requires inmates on death […]
The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge to Mississippi’s 15-week ban on abortion in a major case that will be closely watched across the US. The verdict could upend the legal right […]
US immigration officials have arrested almost 700 people after a series of raids in the state of Mississippi. The co-ordinated operations targeted workers at seven agricultural processing plants who allegedly did not have proper documentation. […]
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS | Associated Press CORINTH, Miss. – Eberlene King remembers her 15-year-old brother as he lay dying, after white teenagers cruised through their black neighborhood in a pickup on Halloween night 1959 and […]
A 13-year-old girl in Mississippi has died after allegedly being shot by her nine-year-old brother over a video game, police say. They said the boy grabbed a gun on Saturday afternoon after his sister would […]
A Mississippi man who has been in jail for 11 years without a trial for the alleged murder of his father soon will be released. Police say Steven Jessie Harris was arrested in October 2005 for […]
A shooting in the US state of Mississippi has left eight people dead, including a local deputy sheriff, police say. The shootings took place in three separate locations in Lincoln County, south Mississippi. A male […]
Frank George Owens of D’Iberville, a member in the Aryan Brotherhood of Mississippi, was sentenced to life in prison on charges including racketeering and murder following a 2010 killing. He was also sentenced to serve an additional 10 years for […]
Former Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner Chris Epps has been arrested by the Flowood Police Department. As part of a guilty plea to bribery charges Epps forfeited his old home to the government. He was arrest […]
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