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JACKSON COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) - A Mississippi teenager was arrested after he allegedly tried to shoot a man and threatened to shoot customers and employees inside a Waffle House. Jackson County Sheriff John Ledbetter said the incident happened on May 22, 2024. According to the sheriff, 16-year-old Jaden Bryant Maples called the Waffle House on [...]

A burglary suspect who escaped from Jackson County Sheriff’s deputies is back in custody. Sheriff John Ledbetter reports that deputies responded to a burglary in progress near a storage unit business off Highway 613 in Escatawpa on Tuesday morning around 7:30. Authorities caught a suspect identified as Jacob Rowan and...

Two Lucedale men have been arrested in connection with the shooting death of another man, News 5 has learned.

Both of the men charged are from Lucedale, MS.

Two Lucedale men have been charged after another man was shot and killed inside a bar on Saturday night. Officers responded to a shooting call at the County Line Bar on Highway 613, where they found Richard Allen Davis shot in the chest. He was treated on the scene but...

Joyce Dean Moore was born Aug. 20, 1939, to Velva (Trammell) and Arnold Ledbetter in Barthell, Kentucky. When Joyce was born, her grandfather John Ledbetter, said her little feet were

Four men have been taken into custody and charged in a shooting that occurred during a large party at a home in Ocean Springs nearly two weeks ago. According to Sheriff John Ledbetter, the four suspects were charged with hindering prosecution in connection to the incident, which took place at...

Police charged four men from Jackson County and expect to make more arrests. Here’s what we know.

The shooting happened during a party at a home on North 6th Street, just east of Ocean Springs in Jackson County, the sheriff said. Here’s more.

The shooting happened Saturday night at Gulf Park Estates, east of Ocean Springs.