KSLA Salutes: Navy veteran turned VA police officer says helping people is greatest part of career VA Police Officer Kylie Johnson (Source: KSLA) By Chandler Watkins | March 10, 2021 at 1:54 PM CST - Updated March 10 at 10:42 PM
SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - VA police Officer Kylie Johnson joined the U.S. Navy in February of 1998. VA Police Officer Kylie Johnson (Source: VA Police Officer Kylie Johnson)
âI got into the military, graduated from boot camp, and went to my first duty station at Naval Station Mayport in Florida,â Johnson said. âI stayed there for six years. Left Mayport and did my first tour in Iraq nine months after I had my daughter. I was embedded with the Army. Did some time in Fort Dix, New Jersey. I crossed into security operations. I came back to a battalion in Gulfport, Mississippi. I went back to Afghanistan to Camp Leatherneck. Came back and then went to Japan, returned and went back to Afghanistan. After that, my time was up and I made t
A man running for a seat on Hattiesburg City Council was arrested Monday and charged on a court-ordered warrant for false pretense.
Kentrell Ken Chambers, 34, was booked into Forrest County Jail. No bond had been set as of Tuesday morning.
According to an indictment filed in September, Chambers is accused of defrauding Latasha Walters by accessing her bank account by using CashApp and pretending to be Walters without her permission, allegedly stealing more than $500 from her account in March 2019.
Chambers, a Democrat, is seeking the Ward 1 seat, once again challenging incumbent Jeffrey George, who was first elected in 2017, when both men ran previously.
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The first Black woman to head Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC), Pelicia Hall oversaw death and abuse in MDOCâs concentration camps. She has since stepped down from MDOC to go into the private sector to continue her âadvocacy to reformâ the same atrocities she allowed under her watch. Oppression is oppression by any color or gender.
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It will soon be two years since the women at Central Mississippi Correctional Facility (CMCF) were moved back to the part of the compound known as âthe yard.â The buildings in this section were condemned in 2011!
A man who spent over 23 years on death row for a crime he did not commit will receive the state's maximum compensation for wrongful convictions. This Aug.