Monday, May 13 2013 12:24 PM EDT2013-05-13 16:24:04 GMT
MARION COUNTY, MS (WDAM) - A weekend-long drug raid left 22 individuals behind bars, and more arrests to come. According to Marion County Sheriff Berkley Hall, the drug raid is the result of severalMore >>
A weekend-long drug raid left 22 individuals behind bars, and more arrests to come.More >>
Saturday, May 25 2013 11:00 AM EDT2013-05-25 15:00:12 GMT
DALLAS (WFSS/CNN) – There's a new trend in the bar scene that involves your favorite hard liquor and dry ice. Breathing in the alcohol vapors gets you buzzed fast and some say you don't ingest any emptyMore >>
There's a new trend in the bar scene that involves your favorite hard liquor and dry ice. But doctors say it's dangerous. More >>
Dan Sligh and his wife were in their pickup truck on Interstate 5 heading to a camping trip when a bridge before them disappeared in a "big puff of dust."More >>
The trucker was hauling drilling equipment when his load bumped against the steel framework over an Interstate 5 bridge. He looked in his rearview mirror and watched in horror as the span collapsed into the water behind him....More >>
Friday, May 24 2013 4:24 PM EDT2013-05-24 20:24:40 GMT
A lawsuit in Mississippi says a man was seriously injured after he was attacked by yellow jackets, jumped off his riding lawnmower and was run over by the machine.More >>
A lawsuit in Mississippi says a man was seriously injured after he was attacked by yellow jackets, jumped off his riding lawnmower and was run over by the machine.More >>
JACKSON, MS (Mississippi News Now) -
A national group continues to press for reforms for the State Department of Human Services over its care of foster children in Mississippi.
A status conference was held in federal court in Jackson Thursday morning. Children's Rights filed a lawsuit charging Mississippi with failing to provide legally required care and protection to the nearly 3,500 abused and neglected children in state custody.
We talked with the Executive Director of Children's Rights Marcia Robinson Lowry by phone Thursday night.
"Mississippi for the last four years has been either the worst or the second worst state in the country in the way in which children in state custody are being abused while under the protection of the state," Lowry said.
Lowry says the state still does not maintain reliable data on what happens to children in foster care. Lowry tells us the state is at least five years behind in making court ordered changes to track children in the system. She says her group is now starting the process to bring the state to court for contempt.
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