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A man has been sentenced in connection with a drive-by shooting that killed a 12-year-old.

HINDS COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) - A man has pled guilty in connection to the drive-by shooting death of a 12-year-old in Jackson. Hinds County District Attorney Jody Owens said Otha Brown, 19, pled guilty to second-degree murder, aggravated assault, and drive-by shooting. Jackson police said 12-year-old Adrian McDougles and 16-year-old Onterrio McDougles were shot as [...]

Police say someone from Israel called in a bomb threat to Canton Elementary School.

CANTON, Miss. (WJTV) - Canton police are investigating recent car break-ins that have happened in the King Ranch Road area. Police said the recent break-ins happened overnight on King Ranch Road and the Dogwood Subdivision off of Parkview Drive. Surveillance video showed at least two suspects trying to open vehicle doors, but the doors were [...]

Law enforcement was at the scene of a standoff Wednesday in Canton.

The suspect involved in a standoff in a Canton neighborhood has died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to Canton Police Chief Otha Brown. Officers with the U.S. Marshals task force arrived at a residence located on Sherwood Drive and Dobson Avenue in Canton on Wednesday morning to serve a...

Madison County continues to recover from a series of storms over the weekend and late last week that claimed the life of a Canton man and left about 16,000 without power, some for days.

PERRYTON, Texas (AP) - As Sabrina Devers watched what would turn out to be a deadly storm approach her ranch just north of the Texas Panhandle town

PERRYTON, Texas (AP) -- As Sabrina Devers watched what would turn out to be a deadly storm approach her ranch just north of the Texas Panhandle town

Thursday's storm killed three, injured more than 100, destroyed hundreds of buildings and knocked power and cellphone service out in this small town of 8,000.