Store robbed, cashier taken
A Columbus convenience store was robbed this morning.
LCSD looking for armed robbery suspects
The Lowndes County Sheriff’s Department is searching for two men responsible for the armed robbery of a Crawford convenience store.
Police: Woman carries out robbery with baseball bat
A Columbus woman is in police custody after allegedly robbing another woman using a baseball bat.
Man accused of posing as fed to rob immigrants
Amite County Sheriff Tim Wroten says a 37-year-old McComb man is accused of posing as a Border Patrol agent to rob three immigrants.
Robbers’ families say police acted appropriately
The families of two slain bank robbery suspects said Friday that police in the Northern California city of Stockton acted appropriately when they engaged in a gunbattle with their sons.
Robbery violence led cops to fire despite hostage
Misty Holt-Singh planned to be gone for just a few minutes when she stepped into her local bank. Instead, she became the victim of three robbers who had gone there, too, planning to take both money and hostages.
Robbery victim dies after being shot in face
The Columbus man who was shot in a Sunday morning robbery has died.
Quinton Hill, 31, died 3:19 p.m. Tuesday at University Medical Center in Jackson, according to Lowndes County Coroner Greg Merchant.
Columbus man shot in head during robbery
A Columbus man was shot in the head Sunday morning and investigators are searching for the assailant.
West Point man arrested for alleged armed robbery
Starkville officers arrested a 28-year-old West Point resident Thursday after he allegedly broke into an Old West Point Road home and robbed its owner by gunpoint last week.
Police: Tourist turned tables on would-be robber
New Orleans police say that when a would-be robber put a Mississippi tourist into a headlock, the man broke free, punched him and held him for police.
Federal court dismisses Miss. appeal
A federal appeals court panel has overturned a lower court’s ordered granting an appeal hearing in a Mississippi robbery and aggravated assault case.
Man facing robbery charge after hitchhiker incident
A Columbus man was arrested for strong-armed robbery after he allegedly robbed a female hitchhiker.
Alabama man pleads guilty to robbing Miss. banks
An Alabama man has pleaded guilty to conspiring to rob banks in Gautier and Biloxi in 2008.
Starkville man facing armed robbery charge after break-in
A Starkville teen is being charged with armed robbery after he allegedly broke into a house and robbed a man in Artesia on Wednesday.
Reputed mobster pleads not guilty in 1978 heist
More than 30 years after hooded gunmen pulled a $6 million airport heist dramatized in the hit Martin Scorsese movie “Goodfellas,” an elderly reputed mobster was arrested at his New York City home on Thursday and charged in the robbery and a 1969 murder.
Felony arrests up in both city and county
Felony arrests in Lowndes County and the City of Columbus rose in 2013, according to data provided by the Lowndes County Sheriff’s Department and the Columbus Police Department.
Death of Phoenix bank robber described in 911 call
A caller told an emergency dispatcher that a masked man raced into a Phoenix bank and then calmly described how police gunned down the suspect minutes later as he fled with a bag of cash.
“They’re shooting, they’re shooting,” the 911 caller said. Ten seconds later: “One guy down. He’s down.”
Wounded second officer remains hospitalized
Police don’t have a suspect yet in the death of one Tupelo police officer and the wounding of another, but authorities are chasing down leads and talking to people of interest, says Mississippi Highway Patrol spokesman Ray Hall.
Police seek suspect in attempted robbery
The Lowndes County Sheriff’s Department is searching for the man responsible for robbing a gas station over the weekend.
Robbery suspect shot at least 10 times, dies
BASSFIELD — Authorities say a robbery suspect wounded a convenience store owner in Jefferson Davis County but was killed when the owner fired back at