A Vancleave man was sentenced on Friday to nine years in federal prison for the possession of more than 83,000 depictions of child pornography. 68-year-old Cameron Willis Cotrill was identified in an online child exploitation investigation for possessing and sharing … Continued
A third inmate locked up at the East Mississippi Correctional Facility has passed away in the month of July. Lauderdale County Coroner Stella McMahan confirms that 59-year-old Clarence Gillie died at the detention center in Meridian on Friday. Gillie was … Continued
Bricen Rivers, the man accused of killing 22-year-old Southern Miss nursing student Lauren Johansen, appeared in a Forrest County court Friday morning after being relocated from Harrison County and receiving additional charges in the murder case. For the charge of … Continued
Authorities have released the identity of the elderly man accused of firing multiple shots from an airsoft gun at a school in the Mississippi Pine Belt. The Marion County Sheriff’s Office reports that on Thursday around 7:20 a.m., 76-year-old Timothy … Continued
CF Industries Holdings, Inc., the largest ammonia producer in the world, announced a $100 million project at its Yazoo City Complex aiming to drastically decrease carbon emissions. The investment will build a CO2 dehydration and compression unit, which is expected … Continued
The community of Indianola is making an appeal for change after 16 people were shot and three were killed in a mass shooting last weekend. A large group of people were gathered around a local nightclub on Church Street, before … Continued
The Mississippi Public Service Commission is warning customers to be on alert for a scammer posing as a government employee. The agency has been made aware of an imposter calling Mississippians under the guise of a public service commission employee. … Continued
ATLANTA (AP) — Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama have endorsed Kamala Harris in her White House bid, giving the vice president the expected but still crucial backing of the nation’s two most popular Democrats. The … Continued
A Clay County man’s post-court actions caused him to receive a sentence nearly three times as large as the one he had just been handed. Amonty Young, 37, was initially going to spend 25 years in prison for attempted murder … Continued
A man from the Pearl River Community of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians will spend a decade in prison for incest. Court documents reveal that, in July 2021, 52-year-old Ronnie Reed, Sr., had an illicit sexual relationship with an … Continued