An inmate died at a Mississippi county jail on Wednesday. Officials with the DeSoto County Sheriff’s Office report that ...

The Madison County Council recently revealed potentially good news for local taxpayers concerning the expansion of the new ...

Hancock County and taken to the animal shelter this week. Their owner, Tina Estelle Allen, was arrested Tuesday by deputies ...

The bar's co-owner claims self-defense, saying the patron was drunk and hit a woman who was beating him at pool.

Lawrence County Sheriff Ryan Everett announced Leonard Kairieke Rhymes was captured. LAWRENCE COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) – Lawrence ...

Under the state’s Pretrial Fairness Act, probable cause alone is not enough to hold someone in jail before trial.

The United States faces a serious crisis within its prison system. Overcrowding has turned many American jails into volatile, dangerously understaffed environments, where as few as two correctional ...

The Illinois Agriculture in the Classroom program and the IAA Foundation, along with the Illinois Farm Bureau, have released the names of the 2025-2026 Teacher Grant Winners. Four Hancock County ...

On December 31, 2025, at approximately 6:27 P.M., the Hancock County Sheriff’s Office was summoned to 8020 CR 53, McComb, Ohio to investigate a report of an unconscious male. Deputies along with fire ...

Update, Dec. 30 at 12:30 p.m. — The Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office confirmed Tuesday that the fugitive warrant for William Bozarth stems from a 2023 charge of domestic abuse battery with child ...

BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - Three South Mississippi locations were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2025, according to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH). The ...

An inmate says that no one wanted to listen when he tried repeatedly to confess to a crime at a facility known for violence. By Nate Rosenfield Brian Howey and Jerry Mitchell Nate Rosenfield and Brian ...