Fire Kills Man in Lauderdale County, Body Found in the Bed
MARION, Miss.–An early Thursday fire killed a man in Lauderdale County, in the Marion community. It took firefighters several hours to put the fire out....
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Keeping Your Kids Safe: Internet Sex Sting Puts Two in Jail
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MERIDIAN, Miss.–Using the internet to try to meet children for sex is the charge against two men from Lauderdale County who were arrested this week....
Drowning or Not? Boy Dies After Falling in Two Ft. Chunky River
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LAUDERDALE COUNTY, Miss.–Two feet of water can be enough to kill you under the right circumstances. Today an autopsy is being done at the state...
Clarke County Hostage Situation Over, Man Taken Down by Highway Patrol SWAT Team
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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...
Drowning in May Was No Accident, Meridian Mother Arrested in Death of Four-Year-Old Son
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MERIDIAN, Miss.–The drowning of a four-year-old little boy in May at Western Gardens in Meridian was not an accident, say police. They have arrested the...
Shot and Killed While Trying to Call 911: 94-Year-Old Woman Dies Sunday in Meridian
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MERIDIAN, Miss.–Shot and killed in Meridian about 1 a.m. Sunday, a 94-year-old woman, who may have been trying to call 911 when it happened. Police...
Kemper County Stabbing: Grandfather Dies After a Week in the Hospital
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PHOTO: Kemper County Sheriff’s Dept. KEMPER COUNTY, Miss.–Last week’s stabbing of George Butler in Kemper County ultimately led to his death Thursday. Butler, 81, was...
Inmate Dead in the Lauderdale Lockup, MBI Investigating
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PHOTO: Lauderdale County booking MERIDIAN, Miss.–An asthma attack may have been what killed inmate David Lee Chapman, who was a regular at the Lauderdale County...
Miss. News Briefs: Why Not to Play With a Gun, The Man Who Tried to Buy a Child
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MERIDIAN, Miss.–Playing with a loaded gun is never a good idea. That’s what one kid in Meridian told a man who was tossing it around...
The Flu Kills Mississippi Third Grade Teacher
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MERIDIAN, Miss.–The flu can kill you, and that doesn’t just apply to weak people, the elderly or small children. Ashley Dial, a third grade teacher...