Crime

A 47-year-old man has confessed to murder after a woman’s body was found beside the road in Leake County.

The meeting will be held Tuesday at the Gaston Point Community Center starting at 7 p.m.

Two of the four suspects had initial appearances in court Saturday morning, the day after they were arrested.

A federal grand jury indicts a New Orleans city judge who was the subject of a Lee Zurik investigation.

A Coast domestic violence expert spoke to WLOX about how such a horrific crime could have been prevented.

Now that allergy and cold medicines with pseudoephedrine no longer require prescriptions, law enforcement officials fear it’s just the beginning of a long nightmare they haven’t had in a decade.

A Brandon man who received two life sentences in 2021 for crimes committed against two children and their grandmother has died.

An Uber Eats driver was shot Monday during an attempted carjacking in the Ohio City neighborhood.

The District Attorney of Jefferson Davis County says that a child’s innocence was lost after they were allegedly kidnapped and raped repeatedly by two men last week.

Authorities arrested and charged 38-year-old Joseph David Heard and 21-year-old Hailey Leann Heard with capital murder.

Elijah Murrah is accused of stealing multiple catalytic converters from parked vehicles owned by the George County School District.

Two men have been arrested and charged with the kidnapping and rape of the Jefferson Davis County toddler who was found in Lamar County.

Three people are dead this morning in a murder-suicide including a man, a woman and an 8-year-old child.

A warrant for first-degree murder has been issued for 23-year-old Justin Johnson, who is alleged to have shot Young Dolph November 17, 2021 in Memphis.

Michael Joe Whitaker, 49, of Hattiesburg, was charged with failure to register as a sex offender, and his bond was set at $25,000.

Officers responded after receiving a report of a vehicle driving down the road being fired at by multiple firearms.

43-year-old Justin Edwards is charged with armed robbery after police say he robbed a gas station in Ocean Springs.

Anthony Raymond Barnes is wanted on felony charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and possession of a weapon by a felon.

On Tuesday, Major Kelly McMillen with the Marshall County Sheriff’s Office told Action News 5 they used dental records to identify the man as 61-year-old Kenneth Hadden of Byhalia.

Jones County investigators said Tuesday morning that Michael Joe Whitaker had been captured.

49-year-old Michael Joe Whitaker is wanted by the Jones County Sheriff’s Department.

Harrison County Coroner Brian Switzer said 911 calls came in at 11:58 p.m. reporting shots fired at a New Year’s Eve party in the 1200 block of Lewis Avenue.

Eighty-four-year-old Carl Lee Wells, who deputies allege as the suspect, was taken into custody.

NOPD arrested a suspect, identified as Corey R. Davis, for the attempted murder of a 1-year-old infant.

It’s supposed to be a time of excitement for the New Year, instead Gaston Point residents can’t forget about Friday night’s tragedy.

New details were released during a Gulfport press conference surrounding the New Year’s Eve shooting that left multiple people dead.

Three separate incidents of gunplay on New Year's Eve left a New Orleans boy wounded and two juvenile teens arrested, the NOPD said

It has now been more than a year since a Gulfport man was hit by a vehicle and left severely injured.

Authorities have identified a suspect in connection with a homicide at a Picayune RV park on December 23, 2021.

The Simmon's family was devastated when a wrong-way driver collided head-on with their family's SUV.