SHAW, MS (Ben Caxton) — One person is in custody after a baby was found dead inside a kitchen. Emergency crews received a call to a home on Martin Luther Drive in Shaw around 7:00 PM Monday evening. On arrival, they found a 20-month old baby girl that had been…
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…
CLARKSDALE, MS (Ben Caxton) — Could Clarksdale’s hospital close by the end of the year? Curae Health filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy in August but last week said Northwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center is losing so much money that it could pull the bankrupt company down before it can sell its…
GREENVILLE, MS (Ben Caxton) — The parent company of Delta Daily News, Delta Radio Network, has written to Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant regarding a nearly two-year-old invoice for the “Click It or Ticket” campaign that has never been paid by the state. The broadcasting company filed suit against the State…
GREENWOOD, MS (Ben Caxton) — The City of Greenwood has recorded another homicide for 2018. Police Chief Ray Moore says the department received a call shiortly before 8:30 PM Tuesday about shots being fired in the area of Avenue F, and Vardaman Street. When officers arrived on scene in the…
GREENWOOD, MS (Ben Caxton) — A Greenwood groups plan for a new charter school in Leflore County has been rejected by the Mississippi Charter School Authorizer Board. The application by MS Delta Academies to open a school serving grades 6-8 in Leflore County was turned away based on concerns about…
DURANT, MS (Ben Caxton) — More good economic news came to the Delta this week in the form of an announcement of a major plant expansion in Durant in Holmes County. Hunter Engineering is planning an $8 million expansion which will add 60 jobs to its current Durant workforce of…
MONTICELLO, MS (Ben Caxton) — Arkansas candidates for various offices will have a chance to show their stuff at a noontime forum at the Western Sizzlin’ restaurant in Monticello on October 24th. Several Democrat candidates for state constitutional offices, including the party’s gubernatorial candidate, Jared Henderson, and the party’s candidate…
JACKSON, MS (Ben Caxton) — Vicksburg police have arrested a man they say is responsible for multiple recent burglaries in the city. 32-year-old Shaun Christopher Johnson was arrested at his home Monday on several misdemeanor warrants, and then when he appeared in Vicksburg Municipal Court he was also charged with…
SHAW, MS (Ben Caxton) — Pam Chatman is reporting this evening that police are on the scene of a gruesome slaying in Shaw. Chatman says that the Bolivar County Sheriff’s Departmant reports that “a 20-month old baby girl was stabbed and placed in a kitchen oven and cooked.” The baby…
