Lee County News

Death row inmate Dale Leo Bishop, who was convicted of participating in the claw hammer murder of a friend, is just days away from the execution he asked for eight years ago.

BY EMILY LE COZ Daily Journal TUPELO - An effort by Lee County Supervisor Darrell Rankin to abandon a rural road in his district has provoked the ire of the road's original owner - a man who is Rankin's former ...

A man who failed to return to a north Mississippi jail facility is back in custody.

The Associated Press CORINTH - The Mississippi Department of Corrections is searching for an inmate who failed to return to the Alcorn County Community Work Center after a 72-hour leave.

PLANTERSVILLE - A single car accident has claimed the life of a Nettleton woman.

By Emily Le Coz Daily Journal TUPELO - Two days after winning approval for a civil rights monument here, the Coalition for Change announced Wednesday it will try to place similar monuments in every county in ...

BY DANZA JOHNSON Daily Journal TUPELO - Evidence presented at a Wednesday preliminary hearing revealed Cheryl Pine allegedly tried to have her husband killed.

By MICHAEL TONOS Sunday Journal TUPELO - Dave Williams Sr. hadn't been back to Lee County since moving away at the age of 5. Allen Uzikee Nelson attended high school in Tupelo, but after going off to college in ...

The Lee County Board of Supervisors, by a 3-2 vote, today approved a civil rights monument for the courthouse lawn.

If agreed to, the project would use funds from Tupelo, Baldwyn, Lee County and the park itself.

A Tupelo resident has pleaded guilty to insurance fraud against a state-federal program aimed at helping children whose parents lack health-care coverage and can't afford to buy it.

The case of Cheryl Pine, accused in an alleged murder-for-hire plot, will be heard by the September grand jury.

Lee County real estate agent Cheryl Pine is accused in a murder conspiracy. BY EMILY LE COZ Daily Journal TUPELO - Before her arrest Thursday, 57-year-old Cheryl Pine was known as a respected real-estate agent, ...

Dr. Paul White, second from left, listens as his attorney, Anthony Farese, talks to the media after White's plea hearing on Monday in Tupelo, Miss.

Lee County Sheriff's deputies have intercepted a murder-for-hire plot and charged a Tupelo woman in connection with the incident.

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has removed the constitutional cloud from the state's method of administering lethal injection in capital cases, Mississippi seems to be getting about the business of expediting ...

Lee County Sheriff's deputies say a 57-year-old woman paid an undercover officer a substantial amount of money to kill an acquaintance.

The Mississippi Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal of the embezzlement convictions of the former owners of Salts Funeral Home in Booneville.

A Mississippi hospice director said Monday that scotch and sleeping pills made him send threatening e-mails to people he blamed for a criminal investigation of deaths at his facility.

Bond has been set at $500,000 for a man accused in the shooting death of 91-year-old Hezzie Whitlock.