One Local West Nile Case Among 27 Statewide

As mosquitoes continue to buzz across Mississippi, the State Health Department is reporting 27 cases of West Nile virus, including one in Leake County.  There's been one death, in Madison County.  Last year, the state had a total of 37 West Nile cases and...

Man Sentenced in Child Porn Case

A Pearl River man will serve 30 years in federal prison for producing child pornography.  The U-S Attorney's Office says Garald Benson Johnson, 43, admitted that he filmed himself having sex with a minor.  He was indicted last year and entered his guilty plea...


Another Monkeypox Case in Area Health District

A fifth case of monkeypox in the public health district which includes Attala County.   The State Health Department isn’t saying which of the nine counties in the district is reporting that case.   Statewide, there’ve been 79 cases of monkeypox.

Another Monkeypox Case in a Local Public Health District

The State Health Department is now reporting a total of 71 cases of monkeypox in Mississippi, including a fourth case in Public Health District 3-- made up of Attala and eight other counties.  The Health Department doesn't identify the specific counties where the cases...


First Monkeypox Case Confirmed in Mississippi

From the State Health Department:  Monday, the Mississippi State Department of Health reported its first case of Monkeypox in a Mississippi resident. The specimen was tested at the Mississippi State Department of Health Public Health Laboratory. An investigation to identify persons who may have...

1,263 new cases of coronavirus reported in Mississippi

The Mississippi State Department of Health is reporting 1,263 new cases of COVID-19 as of Monday afternoon.The total number of cases in the state is now at 166,94.There have now been 1305 cases of reported in Attala County since the outbreak began.The state has...

Mississippi reports 1st case of coronavirus

Mississippi health officials Wednesday announced that the state had its first presumptive positive case of coronavirus.In a news release, the Mississippi State Department of Health said that a man in southeastern Mississippi who had tested positive had recently traveled to Florida.The Forrest County man...


5 plead not guilty in Mississippi welfare fraud case

Trial dates have been set for the former head of Mississippi's welfare agency and some other people.They are charged with misusing money that was intended to help needy people in the nation's poorest state.John Davis is former director of the Mississippi Department of Human...

New Mississippi AG reviewing Curtis Flowers case

Mississippi's new attorney general must decide whether to take a quadruple murder case to a seventh trial.Curtis Flowers has had two mistrials and four reversed convictions in a nationally watched case involving the 1996 slayings of four people at a Winona furniture store.News outlets...

Mississippi DA leaves murder case after multiple trials

A Mississippi prosecutor says he won't decide whether to try a man a seventh time in a quadruple murder case.District Attorney Doug Evans filed a court order Monday recusing himself and asking the Mississippi attorney general's office to decide whether to try Curtis Flowers...
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