Police look at cold cases after arrest in Virginia
Authorities are taking a fresh look at unsolved rape, murder and missing persons cases after a man was charged in the abduction of a University of Virginia student who vanished about three weeks ago.
Forensic link at center of missing student case
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Virginia police aren’t saying much at all about their evidence against a suspect in the disappearance of a University of Virginia student,
Virginia police: Forensic evidence links two cases
They both were walking alone, separated from their friends late at night on or near the University of Virginia campus. One was found dead nearly five years ago. The other is still missing.
MSU student creates website in wake of mother’s illness
Kaylie Mitchell lost her smile in May, when her mother’s cancer diagnosis came.
The Mississippi State University junior was home in Pascagoula, on a break from school. The family ate dinner and everyone was in the living room when her mother asked that the T.V. be turned down.
Challenges remain in missing UVa student case
Now that they have captured the man charged with abducting a missing University of Virginia student, police face two other major challenges: making the charge stick and, most important, finding Hannah Graham.
Suspect captured in case of missing UVa student
A man charged with abducting a missing University of Virginia sophomore has been captured in Texas and is awaiting extradition — but there is still no sign of the student, authorities said.
Student found dead in MUW dorm
The assistant band director for Columbus High School was found dead in a Mississippi University for Women dorm room Monday.
Former MSMS student dies from South By Southwest crash
A third person struck by a suspected drunken driver in Austin last week during the South By Southwest festival died Monday, police and family said.
Charges reduced in MSU student death case
A teenager will avoid the possibility of 25 years in prison after a grand jury reduced his aggravated manslaughter DUI to a misdemeanor charge.
Monday profile: Caledonia native goes back to school
Arl Taylor is a 44-year-old married father of two — and college student.
It happened like this: He graduated from Caledonia High School in 1987 and attended East Mississippi Community College in Scooba. Then he got married. Then he went to work at Weyerhauser in Columbus. Roughly a decade later, recurring knee pain forced him to leave that job.
Looking toward the future: Local student test driving Google Glass
The new frontier has come to Columbus.
Dustin Vance, a senior at Mississippi University for Women, is test driving Google Glass.
What’s Google Glass? Essentially a tiny computer being developed by Google that users wear like a pair of glasses. An endless supply of technology is at a user’s fingertips — or eyelashes.
Three men charged in Ole Miss student killing
Sheriff’s deputies have arrested three men in the killing of a University of Mississippi graduate student.
MSU student killed in Wednesday wreck
James Harrell, a 22-year-old Mississippi State University student, was killed Wednesday in a single-car wreck on Old West Point Road.
Montana appeals teacher’s rape sentence
The Montana attorney general’s office on Friday asked the state Supreme Court to throw out a 30-day sentence given to a teacher who raped a 14-year-old girl, saying the punishment was illegally lenient.
Mississippi kidnapping suspect wants out of jail until Feb. sentencing
A woman convicted of kidnapping a 6-year-old relative to pressure the girl’s mother in a dispute over a piece of land and a portable storage shed in east Mississippi asked a judge on Friday to let her out of jail pending sentencing.
MVSU student accused of shooting teenager
Itta Bena Acting Police Chief Ted Washington says a Mississippi Valley State University student has been arrested in the shooting of a Leflore County High School student Tuesday night during a parking lot brawl after a basketball game.
Sanctions placed on Delta State sorority
CLEVELAND — A sorority at Delta State University has been ordered to apologize to campus leaders and students for an incident during Homecoming where a
New Hope teacher saves student’s life
A teacher saved a student’s life last Friday.
Jack Sellers, a third-grader at New Hope Elementary, was in his classroom working on a project with Life Savers when he attempted to swallow a piece of the candy. The candy lodged in his airway and the 8-year-old began to choke.
Victim’s mother says rapist eluding justice
BILLINGS, Mont. — A former Montana high school teacher due to be released today after serving a 30-day prison sentence for raping a 14-year-old student
Autopsy: MSU student was thrown from, run over by truck
Eighteen-year-old Mississippi State University freshman Kaleb Dwayne Barker, of Lucedale, was killed as a result of multiple blunt crush injuries Tuesday after he was thrown from the bed of a pickup truck and then struck by the vehicle, according to the Starkville Police Department.