Local victims get $60K from AG’s office
Golden Triangle crime victims received more than $60,000 in assistance from Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood’s office during fiscal year 2015-16.
PSC won’t rehear domestic violence deposit waiver
The Mississippi Public Service Commission won’t reconsider its order to let victims of domestic violence delay paying utility deposits for 60 days.
Rule delays deposits for domestic violence victims
Mississippi regulators have approved a plan to let victims of domestic violence delay paying utility deposits for 60 days as a way to help victims move away from abusers even if they don’t have enough money to pay deposits.
Groups fight deposit delay for abuse victims
Water utilities said Tuesday that the Mississippi Public Service Commission doesn’t have the power to force them to allow victims of domestic abuse to hook up utilities without immediately paying deposits.
Scientists still working to ID victims from 9/11
Thousands of vacuum-sealed plastic pouches filled with bits of bone rest in a Manhattan laboratory. These are the last unidentified fragments of the people who died in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.
Few Milwaukee clergy abuse victims get large sums
MILWAUKEE — Clergy sex abuse victims have long accused the Archdiocese of Milwaukee of spending more money on lawyers to protect itself than to care
Pike County changes policy on felony crime victims’ names
MCCOMB — The Pike County Sheriff’s Department has started withholding the names of victims in felony cases reported to the media. Chief Investigator Bruce Fairburn