NATCHEZ, Miss. (WLBT) - A woman wanted in connection with a Copiah County murder case of a missing man’s burned body being found on the side of a highway has been arrested in Natchez.

A former Stone County Road Department employee pleaded guilty Thursday to felony embezzlement for selling scrap metal from the county's rubbish site and pocketing the money, State Auditor Shad White said in a release.

Claiborne County deputies said five suspects were arrested, including a juvenile, in connection to an “organized theft operation.” On July 14, deputies said the Claiborne County Sheriff’s Office received a call from the Franklin Parish Sheriff’s Office in Louisiana regarding the theft of a 2022 Ford F-350 that had been

Bryan Bailey, the Mississippi sheriff whose department had been under federal investigation for torturing people, staffed his mother’s commercial chicken farm with inmates from the county jail ...

A Mississippi man died after being pinned under a car he was working on, deputies said. Gary Woodman, 59, was working on the vehicle Saturday, July 19, when the jack failed, the Jones County Sheriff’s Department said in a news release. The car crushed him, trapping him underneath.

TERRY, Miss. — A Mississippi sheriff's deputy was shot and killed while responding to a call outside the state's capital city of Jackson, authorities said. Deputy Martin Shields Jr., 37, of the ...