Charges pending in Friday shootout
A dispute between two families led to a shootout Friday night near Madden with serious injuries.
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A dispute between two families led to a shootout Friday night near Madden with serious injuries.
Four men were arrested in two separate incidents at a safety checkpoint at the intersection of Mississippi 488 and Mississippi 427 at Laurel Hill last month.
A man who allegedly shot two of his neighbors in the chest during a dispute on Road 402 between their families last week remains in custody after he was charged with two counts of attempted murder today, Sheriff Eric Clark said.
The opening of a new hospital for the treatment of venereal diseases by the United States Public Health Service in cooperation with the Mississippi State Board of Health at Greenwood was announced by Dr. Felix J. Underwood, executive officer of the Mississippi State Board of Health on Thursday.
Several people arrested in Leake County last week are suspected of taking about $60,000 in copper wire ripped from telephone poles in the Burnside and Arlington communities here last year.