32-hour standoff ends with 2 dead
Two men are dead after a 32-hour standoff with police in Itawamba County. According to a release from the Mississippi Highway Patrol, the Itawamba Sheriff’s Department...
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UPDATE: Hostage situation in Jackson near McDowell Road
by Sarah Ulmer
JACKSON, Miss.- There are reports that the hostage situation in South Jackson has officially ended....
Clarke County Hostage Situation Over, Man Taken Down by Highway Patrol SWAT Team
by kim
CLARKE COUNTY, Miss.–Holding a man and a woman hostage for hours and tearing the woman’s clothes off is what got Verbie Watkins arrested in Clarke...
Wife, In-Laws Held Hostage During Sunday Stand-off
by kim
KILN, Miss.–It was a hostage situation in Kiln early Sunday morning, before church. But, nobody was physically hurt and after about three hours, everyone was...
The Journey of Melvin Mason: Escape From Court, Capture by SWAT Team
by kim
HANCOCK COUNTY, Miss.–Sexual battery and molestation of a child under 14 were the reasons Melvin Mason was in a Hancock County court Monday when he...
Apparently A Little Girl Was Not a Hostage, Dad Arrested After Sunday Incident
by kim
WALLS, Miss.–Sunday morning wasn’t the calm day of rest it usually is in DeSoto County when what many people thought was a hostage situation involving...