Yazoo City police officers arrested an escaped convict from Louisiana Thursday after receiving a tip from a resident that he was acting suspicious.

On Friday Jan. 30th, Yazoo City Police arrested 21-year-old Louisiana fugitive Krisean Salinas after receiving a tip about a man acting suspiciously near a convenience store.

YAZOO CITY, Miss. (WLBT) - A man wanted out of Louisiana was arrested in Yazoo City on Friday night. At approximately 9:45 p.m., Yazoo City Police officers responded to the Double Quick gas station ...

Louisiana authorities say they have captured all eight inmates who escaped from a jail. The inmates were reported missing from Riverbend Detention Center in Lake Providence around 1:20 a.m.

The Mississippi Department of Corrections quietly entered into an agreement with a powerful law firm last summer to monitor ...

Winter storm Fern may be gone but conditions remain dangerous in Mississippi and more than 150,000 are without power.

A 31-year-old Atlantic City man has admitted to shooting and wounding two men in the courtyard of an apartment complex in that city, according to the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office. Police ...

The president issued a raft of clemency grants this week, including pardoning a woman he had given relief to once before and a man whose daughter had donated millions to a Trump super PAC. By Kenneth ...

Imagine a place where your retirement dollars stretch like warm taffy, where cultural offerings rival cities twice its size, and where the pace of life slows just enough to savor every moment without ...

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An inmate at Algoa Correctional Center in Jefferson City is accused of having a 7.5-inch, prison-made shiv in a baby powder bottle last year. Brandon Bassett, 25, was charged with having a weapon at a ...

This article is part of a collaborative investigation into Mississippi’s Deadly Prisons. An investigation by The Marshall Project - Jackson and local reporting partners found that understaffing and ...