Lowndes man gets 10 years for store armed robberies
A Lowndes County man will spend 10 years in prison following a guilty plea Monday in circuit court to one count of armed robbery.
Man who slept with 14-year-old gets 10 year sentence
A man who confessed to sleeping with a 14-year-old will spend 10 years in prison.
Former Mississippi prison chief sentenced to nearly 20 years
Christopher Epps once called himself the “tallest hog at the trough,” but he was cut down to size Wednesday when a judge sentenced Mississippi’s former corrections commissioner to nearly 20 years in prison for crimes connected to more than $1.4 million in bribes.
Man gets life in prison for capital murder of Lowndes teen
An Alabama man will spend the rest of his life in prison for the killing of a Lowndes County teenager in 2011.
Man convicted in son’s hot-car death gets life, no parole
A judge on Monday sentenced a Georgia man to serve life in prison without the possibility of parole after a jury found that he intentionally left his toddler son in a hot SUV to die.
Supreme Court upholds Brooks conviction
The Mississippi Supreme Court unanimously affirmed on Thursday the May 2015 conviction of Chaddy Brooks for the murder of her boyfriend.
Alabama man pleads guilty to Starkville shooting
An Alabama man will spend 15 years in the Mississippi Department of Corrections after pleading guilty Monday to his role in a March 2015 shooting at Starkville Raceway.
Starkville man gets 8 years for supporting ISIS
A Mississippi man who once tried to join the Islamic State group credited arresting FBI agents with saving his life as he was sentenced to eight years in prison Wednesday, telling a federal judge he didn’t then understand what the Islamic State represented.
Lawyer: Ex-Speaker Hastert won’t appeal conviction, sentence
Dennis Hastert’s lead attorney says the former U.S. House speaker won’t appeal his conviction or 15-month prison term in a hush-money case centered on his sexual abuse of students when he was a high school wrestling coach in Illinois decades ago.
Hastert judge delivered verbal equivalent of public flogging
When he sentenced Dennis Hastert to more than a year in prison, the judge in the former House speaker’s hush-money case delivered the verbal equivalent of a public flogging.
Hastert awaits sentence in hush-money case
Dennis Hastert will step before a federal judge Wednesday to learn his sentence in a hush-money case centered on accusations that the former U.S. House speaker sexually abused at least four students decades ago when he coached wrestling at an Illinois high school.
5 years trimmed from ex-cop’s sentence in Katrina burned body case
An ex-New Orleans police officer who burned the body of a man shot to death by a fellow officer in the chaos following Hurricane Katrina had his 17-year-sentenced reduced by more than five years Thursday by a federal judge.
Ex-Subway pitchman Fogle gets more than 15 years in prison
Jared Fogle emerged from obscurity to become the unlikely face of one of the nation’s biggest restaurant chains, earning a small fortune by touting the benefits of a healthy lifestyle that included Subway sandwiches.
Worker who helped 2 killers escape gets up to 7 years
A sobbing former prison worker who helped two murderers escape from a maximum-security lockup said she regretted her “horrible mistake” as she was sentenced Monday to up to seven years behind bars as part of a plea deal.
Columbus man gets 30 years for West Point attack
A Columbus man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison without a chance of parole, said Assistant District Attorney Scott Rogillio.
Former coach accused of molestation denied new sentencing
A Bible-quoting judge did not allow religion to influence the 300-month sentence given to a former prep football coach who had been accused of molestation, a federal appeals panel has ruled.
Messages show plot to get photo of senator’s bedridden wife
CANTON — Newly released investigative documents show that during last year’s Republican primary for a U.S. Senate seat in Mississippi, supporters of a tea party-backed
Blogger gets 2.5 years over senator’s wife photo conspiracy
A blogger who pleaded guilty in a conspiracy to break into a nursing home and shoot unauthorized video of the ailing wife of a U.S. senator was sentenced Monday to serve more than two years in prison.
Columbus man convicted of first-degree murder
A Columbus man will spend the rest of his life in prison after a Lowndes County jury convicted him Friday of first-degree murder.
40-year sentence for stabbing death
Distraught mother Delores Temple can’t bring her son back to life, but she found the strength to face his convicted killer and speak her mind.