“I had a family that waited so long for an autopsy report that their life insurance policy was canceled because it took them so long to get a final copy of the autopsy report,” said Rankin County Coroner David Ruth.
Once upon a time in Brookhaven, Mississippi, there was a pandemic, but the people at the Brookhaven Chamber of Commerce still wanted to crown a Miss Merry Christmas.
“Not so happy,” said 9-year-old John Gordon, describing the feeling of being told he has to wear his mask. “Because it’s just not fun wearing them, and they’re hard to breathe through."
La Mariposa has now been open 14 years. In spite of plans to social distance, aldermen rescinded the owner's permit to hold her yearly anniversary party. She and others feel like it was a vindictive political move.
On October 10, 2019, April Jones and Will Polk disappeared into the thin air of Quitman County. A year later, there is still no progress on their case. Yet.
“It can be very stressful. You’re trying to protect the whole community. And it’s just difficult when you have so many disasters happening at once," said Copiah County EOC Director Randle Drane.
Crafters and artists are currently in the homestretch of their work season, with holiday markets and crafts fairs being the finish line on what has been a very long year.
“I was sad because I lost my hair, but my daddy told me that hair don’t make the person, the person makes the hair,” said the 7-year-old cancer survivor.
On the outside of 100 Black Men of Jackson is a sign that says, “The Village,” referring to how it takes a village to save a child. In this case, John Hardy had a village looking out for him, and it saved his life.
“We’ve definitely got a huge crowd coming out camping since the coronavirus, people are ready to get out of the house,” said MDWFP Director of Parks Andre Hollis.
Court documents say Coleman is accused of using a cellphone and the internet to try to entice a female he knew was under 18 years old into sexual activity.
“A lot of these kids in our town have the talent to play elsewhere and if they don’t have that opportunity to play in front of coaches, then they’re going to have issues going to colleges and stuff like that and bettering themselves,” said Brent Cobb.
“They had questions obviously about what the start of the year would be like, and hopefully we answered those to the best of our ability,” said Superintendent Ray Morgigno.
“You can’t put a lot of people together in the middle of the worst pandemic in the century and expect nothing bad to happen,” said State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs.
Trevion, known to his friends as “Fat Trey,” was shot to death between 4 and 5 Tuesday morning at a party on California Road in Lincoln County, officials say.
The march from the Vicksburg Police Department to the Market Place by the river almost seemed to symbolize the march for racial equality over the years.
In order to reach across the thin blue line and encourage officers, John Owens decided to feed as many as would come eat in the parking lot of his business in Brandon Thursday night.
The video of Floyd's death shocked the public conscience and brought more light to the recurring questions about whether members of the black community are ultimately safe.
After being sequestered in Pike County in the Cory Godbolt mass murder trial, those 15 people from DeSoto County would never see life the same way again.“We all left a piece of us down here," said jury foreman Nicole Becker. "It felt not done, it felt incomplete.”
The prediction that Mississippi may not recover economically from coronavirus until 2023 is a hard pill for business owners to swallow. Some industries are optimistic that the impact will be minimal, while some are facing hard truths.
“That dark space that you have in your heart right now, we in the state of Mississippi would like to light that up right now. We pay tribute to you as well in these days and times. It is tough out here,” said Sheriff K.C. Hamp.
The Warren County Sheriff's Department is well aware of the video showing what looks like the abuse of a vulnerable adult. It's disturbing, and it appears the victim is knocked down, whipped, and grabbed by the throat.PACE: "We are well aware of this video. My investigative unit is and has been i
Pending confirmation from the Mississippi Senate, the new pick for Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner brings decades of experience as a warden at Angola in Louisiana.
As a young child, Liza was diagnosed with pleuropulmonary blastoma, a condition that the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital had seen only once before.
It was while their 54-year-old grandmother was bound in the bedroom that officials say Keith Reeder of Brandon allegedly tied up and raped the two children.
"I be like, uh, they need to have their masks on too. If we have our masks on, they need to have theirs on too," said Andrea Smith, Brookhaven resident.
Cameron had a medulloblastoma, the most common type of cancerous brain tumor in children. But the treatment he received at the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital made all the difference.
We first met Londyn and her dad Justin more than a year ago, at the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Now she's at home in North Mississippi, and introducing us to her new friend.
"The trees were starting to not so much explode, but the bark on the trees were popping and if you’ve ever been in the woods, when you start seeing the fire climbing the bark, it means the fire is getting intense," said dozer driver Korey Williams.
“All I can remember him saying, ‘I don’t do nothing to no one, I had nothing to do with this, what is going on?’” Smith said. "And that’s when he told my brother, ‘I’ve been shot.’”
These Disaster Assistance Centers will serve the residents in Jefferson Davis, Covington and Jones Counties as they apply for individual assistance from FEMA.
