A shooting at a Mississippi Walmart left two people dead, a police officer wounded and a community in shock. But if not for recent active shooter training, the outcome could have been far worse, police said. The gunfire broke out Tuesday morning at a store in Southaven, the third largest city in Mississippi. Customer Carlos Odom […]
-
-
A Mississippi man shot and killed his wife and two other people at her birthday party last week after she tried to stop him from driving drunk, investigators said. Michael Barnhill, 30, of Winona, is charged with three counts of homicide and two counts of attempted murder, news outlets reported. Carroll County Sheriff Clint Walker […]
-
A man cycling across the country to raise money for a New Hampshire children’s hospital was killed in a crash during his cross-country trip. James Dobson, 32, was trying to raise $10,000 for Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock on his Positive Vibes Tour while riding his recumbent tricycle 3,500 miles from Dover, New Hampshire, to San Diego. Dobson […]
-
A video of Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., who faces a runoff this month against an African-American Democrat, joking about attending “a public hanging” went viral Sunday as she insisted there was nothing negative about her remark. “If he invited me to a public hanging, I’d be on the front row,” Hyde-Smith said during a campaign […]
-
A 20-month-old girl found stabbed and burned inside an oven of a Mississippi home was alive when she was placed inside, WMC reports. The Bolivar County Coroner’s Office said the child’s cause of death was both stabbing and burning. Bolivar County Sheriff Kelvin Williams Sr. said the girl’s grandmother, 48-year-old Carolyn Jones, was charged with first-degree murder […]
-
The reward for any information regarding the death of a pregnant dolphin has reached more than $11,000, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. An investigation has ensued into the cause of death of a bottlenose dolphin whose body was found on the beach of Waveland, Mississippi. The NOAA said after a necropsy was administered, […]
-
Palm Springs, CA Jeff Hocker lives in Palm Springs. While he’s far from the devastation in Houston he’s among the few who know what it’s like. "You just feel like there’s nothing you can do to stop it from happening and you just have to figure out what is my best way to to survive […]
