Court reinstates Stone Co. rape conviction
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The Mississippi Supreme Court has reinstated the conviction and 35-year sentence in a Stone County rape case.
The state Court of Appeals last November ordered a new trial for Anthony Mercie Expose. Expose had been convicted of rape in 2010.
The Appeals Court ruled that the trial judge failed to instruct the jury on Expose's
...Sex offender sentenced for not registering in Neb.
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - A 30-year-old man who had been living in the south-central Nebraska city of Cozad has been sentenced for failing to register in Nebraska as a sex offender.
Lexington radio station KRVN reports (http://bit.ly/S0KIFi) that Shawn Cryts was given 16 months in prison on Thursday. He must also serve five years of supervised release
...Man pleads guilty in pain pill case
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) - Federal court records say a man has pleaded guilty in a south Mississippi pain pill investigation.
Authorities say Charles MacGeorge and a woman were arrested Dec. 1, 2010, in their hotel room at the Hard Rock Casino in Biloxi with some 374 pain pills.
MacGeorge pleaded guilty Thursday to narcotics racketeering in U.S.
...Family hopes to win amnesty for pet goat Oreo
EAST RIDGE, Tenn. (AP) - East Ridge officials are investigating whether they can make an exception to a rule allowing no livestock within city limits for a family's pet pygmy goat.
The City Council earlier this month voted down a blanket exception for pygmy goats and potbelly pigs, but the Viar family didn't give up.
The Chattanooga Times Free Press
...Court upholds Union Co. sexual battery convictions
NEW ALBANY, Miss. (AP) - The Mississippi Supreme Court has upheld Johnny R. Young's 2009 conviction on three counts of sexual battery on a minor.
The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal reports (http://bit.ly/RjWTzx ) the Mississippi Court of Appeals earlier upheld the conviction.
Young appealed on issues surrounding evidence of his prior sexual
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