In 2023, Fifth Circuit Court District Attorney Doug Evans resigned six months before his term ended. Circuit Court Judge ...

Owens was first elected as Hinds County DA in 2019. Previously, he was the managing attorney at the Southern Poverty Law ...

The charges come after FBI agents, who posed as Nashville real estate developers, worked for months on an undercover sting, ...

DA Jody Owens is facing multiple counts in a case that has also seen other public officials indicted, including the Jackson, MS, mayor.

The mayor of Mississippi’s capital said Thursday “he will continue to handle the business of the city,” after he pleaded not ...

Owens allegedly accepted $50,000 in a bag for his services. He allegedly removed the cash from the bag and put it in his ...

Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba is facing five federal charges, Hinds County District Attorney Jody Owens is facing eight ...

Three Jackson, Mississippi leaders have been indicted on federal charges as part of a bribery scandal: Jackson Mayor Chokwe ...

The mayor of Mississippi’s capital city, the top prosecutor in the state’s largest county and a Jackson city council member ...

Bribery and conspiracy charges against the mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, are the latest shock to the state's capital city.

Hinds County’s district attorney, Jackson’s mayor and a city council member were indicted on federal charges connected to ...

The charges came after two undercover FBI agents posed as real estate developers and reportedly made payments to officials.