OLIVE BRANCH, Miss. (AP) - DeSoto County sheriff's deputies are investigating the death of a 58-year-old man after a domestic dispute involving his son.
County Coroner Jeff Pounders tells The Commercial Appeal (http://bit.ly/SgYJyI ) John M. Pappas was found unconscious around 2 a.m. Wednesday by paramedics inside his Olive Branch home.
Pounders
...JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Hinds County sheriff's deputies say a convicted drug offender is going back to jail after being arrested for possession of 4 pounds of marijuana and other narcotics.
Chief Deputy Chris Picou tells The Clarion-Ledger (http://on.thec-l.com/RuBFLU ) 34-year-old Alton Cooper was arrested about noon Wednesday when investigators
...GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - Harrison County Coroner Gary Hargrove tells The Sun Herald (http://bit.ly/Rryi8r ) dental records of a man reported missing from Georgia could help identify remains of a man found floating in the Mississippi Sound.
Hargrove says a fisherman was checking crab pots just before 9:30 a.m. Wednesday when he found a man's body near
...ST. MARTIN, Miss. (AP) - An insurance agent has been accused of failing to send customers' insurance payments to insurers.
Jackson County Sheriff Mike Byrd said in a press release received by The Sun Herald (http://bit.ly/Y5eJIX ) that 35-year-old Chad Michael Davis of St. Martin was arrested Tuesday.
Byrd says Davis was charged with two counts of
...LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Gov. Mike Beebe is to proclaim November as Arkansas Soybean Month.
Beebe is to make the proclamation Thursday at the state Capitol.
The Arkansas Soybean Promotion Board says the state ranks tenth in the nation in soybean production with an average of 122 million bushels per year.
The board says soybeans rank third in the
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