Jury in trial of burned woman to visit key locations in case
A jury in the trial of a man charged with setting a 19-year-old Mississippi woman on fire and leaving her to die along a rural back road is scheduled to visit the crime scene in the case.
Trial begins to shed light on woman’s gruesome burning death
The night a 19-year-old Mississippi woman was burned to death, she and her killer had sex in her car and he thought he had suffocated her before he torched her vehicle with her inside, a prosecutor said Tuesday in an opening statement, presenting his theory of what led to the gruesome slaying.
Defendants in West Point Huddle House attack plea
Two men indicted for beating a man at the West Point Huddle House pleaded guilty Monday in Clay County Circuit Court.
West Point Huddle House beating suspect to appear in court
One of the suspects accused in a 2014 aggravated assault outside a West Point Huddle House is scheduled to appear in court this week.
Murder trial to open in horrific burning death of woman, 19
Jessica Chambers was on fire when she was found along a back road near a north Mississippi tree farm nearly three years ago.
Boykin manslaughter trial to be continued
The manslaughter trial for former Columbus police officer Canyon Boykin is being continued.
West Point man sentenced to 105 years for Cotton District sexual battery, kidnapping
Terry Hill, 44, of West Point, will likely spend the rest of his life in prison for the role he played in the attack on two college students in the Cotton District in 2016.
State rests in Cotton District sexual battery case
An Oktibbeha County jury will today deliberate the fate of a West Point man charged with robbery, sexual battery and kidnapping in Starkville’s Cotton District in 2016.
Attorney in Cotton District sexual assault case requests to withdraw
Halfway through the first day of witnesses in a trial of a man accused of sexual assault in the Cotton District, the defense attorney made a motion to withdraw from the case because of multiple threats her client had made against her.
Cotton District rape, robbery trial begins
One of the two defendants accused of a robbery and rape in Starkville a year ago faces a jury in Oktibbeha County Circuit Court this week.
Railroad to pay $3.9M for train death of film worker
A railroad owner plans to appeal a jury’s decision that it must pay $3.9 million to the family of a movie worker killed on a Georgia railroad trestle in 2014, a spokesman for the company said.
Trial to decide if railroad shares blame in movie crew death
A movie director served jail time for trespassing onto a Georgia railroad bridge and putting his film crew in the path of a freight train that slammed into the group and killed a young camera assistant.
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.
Ex-girlfriend: Man confessed to murder
A few days after 19-year-old William Stallings was shot and killed in Lowndes County in 2011, Alabama resident Lacee Cox’s boyfriend Joshua Taylor told her he shot the New Hope teen.
Trial for murder of New Hope teen set to begin
An Alabama man will stand trial in Lowndes County Circuit Court this week for the 2011 murder of a New Hope teenager.
Armed hotel robber gets 40 years
A Columbus man faces up to 40 years in prison for robbing two local hotels in 2014.
New trial begins for suspect in armed hotel robberies
On the witness stand in Lowndes County Circuit Court Wednesday, Joseph Mickens Jr. told a jury how early on the morning of June 23, 2014, he was robbed at gunpoint and threatened by his former high school classmate Keenan Montgomery.
Up next for Dylann Roof: Second trial, long death row wait
Dylann Roof’s death sentence this week for killing nine black church members ends one chapter in his case, but it’s far from over.
Dylann Roof sentenced to death
An unrepentant Dylann Roof was sentenced to death Tuesday for fatally shooting nine black church members during a Bible study session, becoming the first person ordered executed for a federal hate crime.
FBI: Dylann Roof displaying racist symbols even during trial
Dylann Roof is as entrenched in his white supremacist beliefs as ever, even wearing shoes this week with racist symbols drawn on them, an FBI agent testified Friday.