Featured Update: Jackson County suspect in custody
Update: A post from the Jackson County Sheriff’s Department has confirmed that 52-year-old Paul Heathcoe has been taken into custody. Original Report: Jackson County Sheriff’s deputies are...
Tag : domestic violence
Update: Son charged with mother’s murder in Hinds
Update: 24-year-old Dimitri Atkins II is in custody for the alleged murder of his mother and assault on his father. He is being charged with...
Featured Senator wants harsher penalties for domestic violence
A heated debate began on the Senate Floor yesterday as Senator’s discussed a new bill. During a debate over a bill to increase penalties against...
The best kept family secret: domestic violence
by Alex Paton
October is Domestic Violence Awareness month and just within the last year, Mississippi has seen at least 27 domestic violence homicides and domestic violence affects...
Police: man charged after 8 year-old found with whip marks
by Jared Bounds
A Hattiesburg man facing charges of child abuse after an 8 year-old boy was found with whip marks all over his body. Twenty-eight year-old London...
Domestic violence: victim stigma, crime of intimacy
Time often doesn’t pass by without seeing a headline or hearing a story of domestic violence or abuse. Many times, the story of a couple,...
Solution to be offered after killing domestic violence bill
by Sarah Ulmer
Last week a bill that would make domestic violence legal grounds for divorce was killed in the Judiciary B Committee by the Chairman Andy Gipson. ...
Bills dead after committee deadline
by Sarah Ulmer
While many bills survived Tuesday’s deadline, many notable bills died in committee....
Football players from two state schools arrested
by Sarah Ulmer
JACKSON, Miss.- Mississippi State University and The University of Mississippi both have football players facing charges for assault. ...
Domestic Violence Not Added as Grounds for Divorce
JACKSON, MISS– A bill that would add domestic violence as grounds for divorce died in the Senate. ...