Hinds County News

JACKSON - Hinds County Sheriff Malcolm McMillin has confirmed that he fired Sgt.

Hinds county deputies and Terry police are looking for two men who held up a bank Thursday morning.

Probation was revoked today for one of two men charged last week in the shooting of Jackson Police Precinct 2 Patrolman DeWayne Collier.

Ruby Younger was heartbroken Monday after learning that she had lost another son to violence.

A Bolton man was stabbed to death Monday and his brother is charged in connection with his death, officials said.

A Jackson man pleaded guilty today to manslaughter in the Aug. 12, 2007 shooting death of his girlfriend.

Hinds County Sheriff Malcolm McMillin is expected to name Chief Deputy Ed Sweeney as the next undersheriff to replace Bill Gowan.

The governor said that he has no choice but to cut Medicaid, a program that serves over 600,000 Mississippians .

The ninth human case of the West Nile virus in Mississippi has been confirmed in Pearl River County by health officials.

Neighbors and relatives of 72-year-old Lee Vera Lott, whom everyone called 'Miss Vera,' tried to wrap their minds around her violent death Saturday, allegedly at the hands of her husband, but couldn't shake off ...

Jackson police have charged an 83-year-old man with the murder of his 72-year-old wife.

The Hinds County coroner says a Taser zapping did not cause the death of a Jackson man.

The owner and two employees of a bar raided two years ago by Jackson's mayor have appealed municipal convictions resulting from that raid, and say they want trial by a Hinds County jury.

A ruling by a Hinds County Chancery Court judge means the special session will continue later this summer.

A boil-water notice is in effect for customers who get their water from the City of Jackson-Maddox Road water supply in Hinds County.

Gov. Haley Barbour will not appeal a Hinds County chancery judge's ruling against him in a lawsuit over Medicaid funding, the governor's spokesman said today.

Embattled Jackson Mayor Frank Melton says he'll continue fighting to rid Mississippi's capital city of illegal narcotics, despite facing federal charges in a brazen attack on a suspected crack house with a ...

A Clinton man is charged with felony first-degree arson and two counts of aggravated assault on a firefighter in connection with a Saturday afternoon blaze that left a Parker Drive home heavily damaged.

A federal grand jury has indicted Jackson Mayor Frank Melton and his two police bodyguards on charges related to damage caused to an alleged drug house on Ridgeway Street on Aug.

The mayor of Jackson, Miss., and his two police bodyguards have been indicted for allegedly destroying a reputed drug house, U.S. prosecutors said Wednesday.