Former parks employee gets probation for defrauding state
A former Starkville Parks and Recreation Department employee has been sentenced to five years probation after pleading guilty in an embezzlement case.
Oktibbeha circuit clerk pleads guilty to meth charge
Oktibbeha County’s circuit clerk pleaded guilty to felony possession of methamphetamine Monday in Clay County Circuit Court.
Former Columbus firefighter pleads guilty in child porn case
A former Columbus firefighter pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography in federal court on July 27.
Man sentenced to 40 years in murder case
A Starkville man convicted of a 2010 murder after a graduation party was sentenced to 40 years in prison last week.
Starkville man found guilty of murder
A Starkville man was found guilty of murder Friday.
Lowndes man sentenced for shooting wife’s lover
A Lowndes county man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the 2011 shooting death of his wife’s lover.
Sentence in silicone injection case
A Mississippi woman convicted of killing a Georgia woman through illicit silicone buttocks injections has been sentenced to life in prison.
Lowndes man found guilty of manslaughter
A Lowndes County man was found guilty of manslaughter in Lowndes County Circuit Court Friday afternoon for shooting and killing a man romantically involved with the defendant’s wife.
Woman guilty in silicone-injection case
A Mississippi woman was convicted Friday of murder in connection to illicit silicone buttocks injections that led to a Georgia woman’s death.
Man pleads guilty in Sen. Thad Cochran photo case
One of the men charged in a conspiracy to photograph U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran’s ailing wife pleaded guilty Wednesday, drawing no jail time in a plea agreement in which he pledged to cooperate with prosecutors.
Man in ricin-letter case pleads guilty to fondling
The man who pleaded guilty last week to federal charges of sending poison-laced letters to President Barack Obama and other officials pleaded guilty Tuesday to unrelated fondling charges in state court in Mississippi.
Man pleads guilty to sending ricin-tainted letters
A former martial arts instructor pleaded guilty Friday to sending poison-laced letters to President Barack Obama and other officials in a bizarre case in which authorities say he tried to frame a longtime enemy and Elvis impersonator who was briefly jailed in the case.
Former Mississippi police chief to plead guilty
A former Mississippi police chief accused of demanding money or property in exchange for dropping criminal charges against people is scheduled to plead guilty Wednesday in a federal bribery and extortion case.
Guilty plea in bird deaths at wind farms a first
A major U.S. power company has pleaded guilty to killing eagles and other birds at two Wyoming wind farms and agreed to pay $1 million as part of the first enforcement of environmental laws protecting birds against wind energy facilities.
Former meteorologist to plead guilty
CANTON — Former WLBT TV meteorologist Eric Law will plead guilty Monday to one count of sexual battery in Madison County Circuit Court. Flowood attorney
Columbus tax preparer pleads guilty in fraud case
OXFORD — Federal court records say a former tax preparer from Columbus has pleaded guilty in a fraud case. Cynthia H. Carter was indicted in
Holliman found guilty: Jury returns verdict of first-degree murder
A jury found Brian Holliman guilty of first-degree murder after seven hours of deliberation Thursday.
Holliman, 32, was convicted in the 2008 shooting death of his wife, Laura Lee Godfrey Holliman. Jurors found Brian Holliman demonstrated “expressed malice” when he shot his wife in the face with a shotgun.
Sumrall pleads guilty on child porn charge
A Columbus man charged with possession of child pornography and exploitation of a child appeared in federal court in Aberdeen Monday, pleading guilty to count one of the indictment.