MONTICELLO, AR (Ben Caxton) — Online newspaper monticellolive.com is reporting that the wife of a former mayor has been arrested. 48-year-old Stephanie Hill Rogers was detained Thursday afternoon on a charge of conspiracy to commit murder. Rogers is president of the local youth soccer league. She is also the wife…
PARCHMAN, MS (Ben Caxton) — The Clarksdale Press-Register newspaper reports that low pay is contributing to staff shortages at prisons including the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. Marshall Turner is superintendent at Parchman, a facility that houses 3200 inmates but is about 40 percent understaffed. 75 percent of the security…
INDIANOLA, MS (Ben Caxton) — An Indianola Police Officer has been found guilty of domestic violence charges. Officer Shuntequa Lofton was arrested back on April 26th after she assaulted a female acquaintance. Lofton was in court to face charges this week. on Tuesday she was found guilty in Municipal Court…
GREENVILLE, MS (Ben Caxton) — A 15-year-old boy was found shot to death on his bicycle by Greenville Police early Wednesday night. Police were called to the 400 block of Robertshaw around 7:18 PM. On arrival they found the black youth on a bicycle suffering from gunshot wounds. Emergency Medical…
CANTON, MS (Ben Caxton) — The former director of Canton Municipal Utilities says he will fight the Mississippi auditor’s demand to repay his severance package. Stare Auditor Shad White is demanding $78,613 from Kenny Wayne Jones, who served in the Mississippi Senate for eight years before joining the utility company…
JACKSON, MS (Ben Caxton) — ACT scores for Mississippi’s class of 2018 are 48th among states, just ahead of South Carolina and Nevada. The state’s public and private high school graduates had an average composite score of 18.6 on the exam, the same as in 2017 and above the 18.4…
TUNICA, MS (Ben Caxton) — Mississippi’s newest freeway will open this month, and state transportation commissioner Mike Tagert says Interstate 269 will provide a safer and more efficient way for commercial vehicles to move goods through the region. I-269 will form a 30-mile loop around Memphis, running northeast from the…
GREENVILLE, MS (Ben Caxton) — Foul play is not suspected police say, but two people were found dead in a Greenville home Wednesday morning. After authorities arrived at a home on Cedar Street shortly before 8:00 AM they had to force their way into a locked bedroom where they found…
VICKSBURG, MS (Ben Caxton) — Even if you can’t spare the time for a full-time job you still can be a police officer in Vicksburg. In an effort to combat an increasingly severe shortage of officers in that city, Vicksburg is taking the unusual step of offering part-time positions at…
JACKSON, MS (Ben Caxton) — The band director at the Jackson area high school that had students performing a halftime show with weapons aimed at other students on the field claims he has been fired. Forest Hill band director Demetri Jones told Othor Cain on an interview on Cain’s Facebook…
