Ashland News

Two people have been convicted, three others have pleaded guilty and about a dozen defendants are awaiting trial in a vote-buying scheme in Benton County.

A Benton County jury has convicted two residents of conspiracy to commit voter fraud.

A proposal to raise the statea TMs 18-cent excise tax died this week after lawmakers failed to reach a deal by the legislative deadline.

A resolution has been filed in the Mississippi Senate to revive a proposed cigarette tax increase.

By Patsy R. Brumfield Daily Journal NEW ALBANY - The attorney for Janet and Ramon Barreto wants prosecutors to turn over materials that could help keep them out of jail for the rest of their lives.

A private investigator for a law firm representing the estates of two doctors killed in a crash last week in Jackson says he hopes a piece of evidence will reveal how fast the car that hit them was traveling ...

First question: What do disgraced Oxford ex-attorney Richard "Dickie" Scruggs and music icon Earl Scruggs have in common? Answer: The latter's name appears on my Google Alert all day long, when I really want to ...

Bronze medal schools in NeMiss These high schools were among 36 in the state recognized by U.S. News and World Reports: Ashland, Baldwyn, Blue Mountain, Booneville, Itawamba Agricultural, Falkner, Jumpertown, ...

BY M. SCOTT MORRIS Daily Journal GUNTOWN - A California law enforcement officer got his first sampling of Mississippi from the Nazi Low Riders.

BY PATSY R. BRUMFIELD Daily Journal Last week's sentencing of former Booneville attorney Joseph C. "Joey" Langston marked the end and the beginning of the multiyear legal drama that has come to be known ...

BY PATSY R. BRUMFIELD Daily Journal OXFORD - If the U.S. District Court agrees to let the media see letters written about disgraced Booneville attorney Joey Langston, he's asking that they all be withdrawn so ...

By Patsy R. Brumfield Daily Journal OXFORD - Joey Langston's attorney says his client objects to public disclosure of letters written for the U.S. District Court to consider before he is sentenced Dec.