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Man sentence in child sex crime case

A 39-year-old Pascagoula man has pleaded guilty to three counts of touching of a child for lustful purposes and one count of sexual battery involving three different victims, who were all younger than 14.

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DA looking into alleged voting irregularities

Complaints about alleged irregularities in Canton elections have prompted the Madison County district attorney's office to start collecting information in anticipation of an official investigation.

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Defendant absent as murder trial opens

A 41-year-old man accused in a high-profile murder case elected not to attend the first day of his trial.

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Autopsy shows Moss Point fisherman drowned

A man whose body was recovered after a boating mishap in the Escatawpa River drowned.

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Biloxi bank robbery suspect arrested

A 43-year-old Wiggins man suspected of robbing a Biloxi bank on May 10 has been taken into custody in Texas, where he is accused of robbing three other banks.

1 hour ago

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Conference looks at community health care

Dr. Camara Phyllis Jones, a family physician and epidemiologist whose work focuses on health care equity, will speak Wednesday at an annual Mississippi conference on improving community health care programs.

2 hours ago

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Sentencing Tues. in Biloxi prostitution case

A Korean man is scheduled for sentencing Tuesday after pleading guilty to harboring women who were in the country illegally for prostitution.

2 hours ago

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Greenville man sought in fatal fire

Authorities have issued an arrest warrant for a 36-year-old Greenville man sought in the death of a woman whose body was found last month inside a burned house.

2 hours ago

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Reward offered in killing of whooping crane in La.

State and federal authorities are offering a $3,000 reward for information about whoever shot and killed a whooping crane along the Red River in northwest Louisiana.