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BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — Police fatally shot a Mississippi man Thursday at the scene of an accident, state investigators said. The shooting happened at an intersection in the south Mississippi city of Biloxi, according to a news release from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The police chief in Mississippi's capital city said Friday that he is retiring after 30 years with the Jackson Police Department and nearly five years in the top job. Chief James E.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — The pilot killed after his small plane crashed Wednesday in northwest Arkansas has been identified as former Mississippi state Sen. Johnny Morgan, authorities said. A family member confirmed Morgan, 76, of Oxford, Mississippi, was the only person aboard the twin-engine Beech King Air E-90 plane that crashed in southern Washington County, the sheriff's office said in a post on Facebook.
Echoes of Breonna Taylor in shooting of Black man in Georgia By KATE BRUMBACKJune 15, 2021 GMT ATLANTA (AP) — Johnny Lorenzo Bolton was lying with his eyes closed on a couch in his apartment near Atlanta when police serving a narcotics search warrant burst through the front door with guns drawn and no warning. Bolton stood up and at least one of the officers fired, sending two bullets into Bolton’s chest. The 49-year-old Black man died from his injuries. Details of the pre-dawn encounter in December — most of which come from a lawyer representing Bolton’s family — resemble a case t...
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Storms with soaking rains drenched a wide swath of Appalachia and northern Mississippi this week, swamping farmland, flooding bridges, stranding people in their homes and damaging cars and residences.