PARCHMAN -- Mississippi inmate Edwin Hart Turner was put to death Wednesday evening for killing two men in a 1995 robbery spree after the courts declined to stop the execution based on arguments that he was mentally ill.
BAY ST. LOUIS -- A driver appeared to escape serious injury when his pickup truck was struck by a train Wednesday night, Bay St. Louis Police Chief Mike DeNardo said.
OCEAN SPRINGS -- Angry parents took the mayor to task at a city meeting Wednesday night, saying they received little sympathy when their young children were attacked by a downtown rooster.
Lucimarian Roberts will sign copies of her book “My Story, My Song” at 11 a.m. April 21 at Barnes & Noble at Crossroads in Gulfport.
BILOXI -- The Band Perry and Montgomery Gentry are among the headlining acts to perform at this year’s Crawfish Music Festival held April 19-22 and 26-29 at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum in Biloxi.
BILOXI -- Mayor A.J. Holloway, speaking at his State of the City address, said 2011 was a year of ribbon cuttings and “2012 is going to be a year of unprecedented success and progress.”
ST. MARTIN -- Sheriff’s investigators have one man in custody and are searching for two others, both considered armed and dangerous, in connection with a home invasion this morning on Seaman Road in the St. Martin community, Sheriff Mike Byrd said.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency plans to mail letters next week to 90,000 individuals and households letting them know that it will waive repayment of disaster assistance funds that FEMA erroneously distributed after Hurricane Katrina.
OCEAN SPRINGS -- Bobby Cox, son of a former alderman, is the city’s new alderman at large.
WASHINGTON -- A Washington Post report says congressional earmark spending appears to have funded projects near lawmakers’ personal properties and questions projects secured by Mississippi Congressmen Bennie Thompson and Roger Wicker.
BILOXI -- Those who want smoking banned in all public places in the city and those who said a smoking ban would be bad for business and personal freedom presented their arguments Tuesday to the Biloxi Council, which took no action.
WIGGINS -- City officials discussed limiting large-truck traffic on some city roads at Tuesday’s Board of Aldermen meeting.
NEPHI, Utah -- The man who warned his employer of the equipment quirk that led to the deadly explosion of the space shuttle Challenger has died. Roger Boisjoly was 73.
JACKSON -- A state House committee voted Tuesday to push forward a bill that would cut Attorney General Jim Hood’s authority, turning down Hood’s request to speak to the group before it voted.
Tigers, other animals taken from Collins zoo
WASHINGTON -- AU.S. senator from Alabama directed more than $100 million in federal earmarks to renovate downtown Tuscaloosa near his own commercial office building. A congressman from Georgia secured $6.3 million in taxpayer funds to replenish the beach about 900 feet from his island vacation cottage. A representative from Michigan earmarked $486,000 to add a bike lane to a bridge within walking distance of her home.
This series is based on an examination of the finances of all 435 members of the House of Representatives and 100 members of the U.S. Senate.
WASHINGTON -- What is an earmark?
OCEAN SPRINGS -- The city has a new alderman at-large -- Bobby Cox, the son of a former alderman.
