Hinds County News

A former Jackson police officer who was out of jail on bond was charged Thursday with robbing five local businesses within 24 hours.

Former Hinds County Circuit Judge and prosecutor Bobby DeLaughter, who made a career of watching convicts go behind bars, is headed off to prison himself for 18 months.

Some have suggested Friday's sentencing of former Hinds County Circuit Judge Bobby DeLaughter marks the end of the judicial bribery scandal involving disbarred litigator Dickie Scruggs.

Teenagers make up almost 40 percent of those diagnosed with sexually transmitted diseases in Mississippi.

In July 1999 the body of a woman investigators call Jane Doe #1 was found near an oil well on Ricky Franklin's property in Bolton.

Bobby DeLaughter, a history-making prosecutor who became a judge, has been sentenced to 18 months for federal obstruction in a case that ended his career and brought down some of the most powerful lawyers in Mississippi.

A settlement has been reached in a long-running fraud lawsuit filed against Richard "Dickie" Scruggs, the once powerful anti-tobacco litigator who is now behind bars, an attorney says.

The Federal Bureau of Investigations is helping to build a case against a man who may be connected to the slayings of 10 women in Hinds County, officials said.

The Hinds County Sheriff's Department said a man who is charged with aggravated assault, may be connected to the slayings and disappearances of several women.

Authorities say a man who has been suspected in the deaths or disappearances of at least 10 women since the 1990s faces kidnapping and rape charges in a weekend assault.

Two Hinds County offices have new leaders. Supervisors on Monday in a 4-1 vote selected Permit and Zoning Director Jimmie Lewis to take over the county's Emergency Operations Center.

A federal judge will allow reporters to have access to pre-sentencing letters written on behalf of former Hinds County Circuit Judge Bobby DeLaughter.

Hinds County supervisors today again delayed a vote on an agreement with a juvenile detention watchdog group that would mandate certain changes at the Henley-Young center in Jackson.

A Jackson man was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for causing the 2007 crash that killed a Clinton firefighter and his wife in a two-car accident at I-55 and Siwell Road in Byram.

In its regularly scheduled meeting Monday, the Hinds County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 to promote Mr.

Supervisors this morning chose Assistant Hinds County Attorney Sherri Flowers to assume the job of the county's top prosecutor.

Multiple interstate lanes in the metro area will close this weekend, barring rain delays, so the Mississippi Department of Transportation crews can do needed improvement work.

Police believed a burned vehicle found Sunday morning could be related to the hit-and-run death of a pedestrian.

Clinton Public Schools could be the next district in the state to adopt a 10-point grading scale.

Fifteen subdivisions in Hinds County have 30 days to get streets in their neighborhoods up to par before the county files a lawsuit against them.