JACKSON, MS (Ben Caxton) — A 7-year-old Brookhaven boy has died after being critically wounded in a Wednesday night drive-by shooting. Quantavious Allen Jr. was inside a house with a relative when someone in a passing car on the street fired multiple shots into the building around 6:00 PM Wednesday…
CLARKSDALE, MS (Ben Caxton) — At this week’s meeting of Clarksdale’s city board, Ward 1 commissioner Bo Plunk suggested removing traffic signals at two intersections and converting them to four-way stops. Noting that the signals have not functioned for some time and that replacement parts are difficult to get, Plunk…
CLARKSDALE, MS (Ben Caxton) — Clarksdale mayor Chuck Espy appeared on NBC’s “Today” show yesterday morning, promoting his plan to pay crooks to leave town. A Go Fund Me page he hopes will raise $3 million has so far garnered just $1,000 in pledges, even though the mayor has offered…
JACKSON, MS (Ben Caxton) — The Mississippi Public Service Commission has charged five telemarketers with over 400 violations of the Mississippi No-Call law. MediaStratX, United Support, Advanced Marketing Science, Vehicle Protection Specialists, and Ascendant Marketing Group are subject to fines of $5000 per call, a total of $2.2 million. Commission…
DESOTO COUNTY, MS (Ben Caxton) — DeSoto County authorities say a man sleeping on an overgrown road was hit by a car Tuesday morning. Deputies said he was living in a wooded area next to an old construction road that some residents of the Bonne Terre subdivision still use as…
JACKSON, MS (Ben Caxton) — Mississippi state tax collections continue to exceed expectations. On Tuesday the Legislative Budget Office reported collections are about $224 million higher for the first 11 months of the current budget year than for the same period last year, a 4.5% increase. The strongest gain is…
SHELBY COUNTY, TN (Ben Caxton) — West Nile Virus has been confirmed in mosquitoes in Shelby County. No human cases of West Nile have been reported but health department officials in Tennessee expect the virus to become widespread in mosquitoes before the end of the summer. People over the age…
COAHOMA COUNTY, MS (Ben Caxton) — The Coahoma County Tourism Commission met yesterday, and the indictment of former executive director Kappi Allen only briefly discussed. State Auditor Shad White says Allen embezzled approximately $93,000 over four years through fraudulent use of a credit card and issuing unauthorized checks, and has…
JACKSON, MS (Ben Caxton) — Mississippi has joined nine other states in a lawsuit to halt the proposed merger of T-Mobile and Sprint. The complaint alleges that merging the third and fourth largest national mobile network operators, who together serve more than 130 million subscribers, would deprive consumers of the…
JACKSON, MS (Ben Caxton) — A new law will help protect Mississippians from robocalls and scammers. This week the Mississippi Public Service Commission and Secretary of State announced changes to the Telephone Solicitation Act affecting registration requirements of charities. Charitable organizations using volunteers to fundraise are currently exempt from the…
