44-year-old Mark Alan Hogan was charged with solicitation of prostitution during the sting at an area hotel. Hogan is an assistant football coach and science teacher at Center Hill High School in Olive Branch. The district has placed Hogan on administrative leave while an internal investigation is underway. 44-year-old David…
38-year old Kimberly Bell was arrested Monday; the indictment alleges she misused over $56,000 in taxpayer funds between October 2012 and September 2013. She allegedly charged over $52,000 with a county credit card credit card on expenses that were not approved by the board of supervisors, including cash advances of…
Karl Morgan, a former defensive tackle with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the NFL, replaces Freeman Horton, who had led the Tigers since 2001. Morgan comes to Coahoma after three years as head coach at Mississippi Valley State; he has also coached at Nicholls State, Southern University, Purdue, Arkansas State,…
Mississippi’s unemployment rate fell to 8-percent in December. The figures from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics indicated the lowest statewide jobless rate since January 2009. But analysts caution that part of the reason was people who have given up looking for a job, who no longer count in the…
They’re looking for instructors who can teach heating, ventilation, air conditioning, plumbing, welding and electrical. The job pays 25 dollars per hour.
43-year-old Hosan Azo-Mani is accused of falsely billing for care provided to babies in neonatal intensive care from 2005 to 2008, but prosecutors alleged that there wasn’t a neonatal intensive care facility until 2010.
A crackdown on hot checks is set to begin next month. The Fourth Circuit Court District Attorney’s office, which covers Washington and Sunflower Counties, set February 17th as a deadline for people to make good on outstanding fines for writing bad checks. Dewayne Richardson says his office is not a…
That is up 22 percent from December 2012. Airport officials credited rents of excess property to private companies.
Greenville officials are hoping citizens will get involved, as they work to stem a recent crime wave in the city. A number of auto and truck break-ins were reported, often involving juveniles as suspects. Police have made arrests in most of the armed robberies in Greenville since early December. Citizens…
Ghostbusters star and original Saturday Night Live cast member Dan Aykroyd, who became interested in real-life law enforcement in Mississippi while he spends some time in the state filming the James Brown biopic “Get On Up.”
