Police and the coroner s office identified the dead as Gerry Standley, 55, of Hattiesburg; and two adults and a toddler from Wichita Falls, Texas: Louis Provenza, 67; Anna Calhoun, 23; and Harper Provenza, 2, news agencies reported.
Standley worked full-time for a paving company and was assistant pastor at his church, according to a webpage to raise money for funeral expenses and replacement of belongings lost to the fire.
His wife, Melinda, division manager for the police department s 911 center, their daughter Arrianna and grandson Eli all got out of the home with minor injuries, it said. The couple had celebrated their 22nd-anniversary last month.
A small plane has crashed into a house in Mississippi, killing one of the home’s four occupants and three Texas residents who were flying to a university graduation ceremony, authorities said.
The National Transportation Safety Board said that an investigator was on the way to the scene in Hattiesburg, about 90 miles south-east of Mississippi capital Jackson, to investigate the crash, which caused a fire.
Authorities were not aware of any distress calls from the Mitsubishi MU-2B-60 but have yet to review air traffic recordings, agency spokesman Peter Knudson said.
Police and the coroner’s office identified the dead as Gerry Standley, 55, of Hattiesburg; and two adults and a toddler from Wichita Falls, Texas: Louis Provenza, 67, Anna Calhoun, 23, and Harper Provenza, two, news agencies reported.
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By - Associated Press - Thursday, May 6, 2021
DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. (AP) - Authorities have located the body of a Mississippi college student who disappeared into the Gulf of Mexico off Alabama’s Dauphin Island.
Mayor Jeff Collier says police and fire officials on Wednesday found the body of a man identified by the Coast Guard as 20-year-old Robert Brent of Yazoo County, Mississippi.
The University of Southern Mississippi student went missing on Sunday while swimming in water just off the beach, and Collier posted a statement on social media saying the body was found on the island’s western end.
May 5th, 2021
By Geoffrey Huchel
Infamous cocaine smuggler George Jung, nicknamed Boston George, died May 5, 2021. No cause of death has been revealed. He was 78.
George Jung was born on August 6, 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts. Jung graduated from Weymouth High School and then went to the University of Southern Mississippi. He studied for a degree in advertising but never completed his studies. Jung was a major figure in cocaine trade in the United States in the 1970s and early 1980s. He was part of the Medellin Cartel, headed by Pablo Escobar, which was responsible for up to 90% of the cocaine smuggled into the United States, which ultimately made him a millionaire. As an attempt to expand his profit margin, Jung also sold marijuana as part of his operation.