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A fire ravaged the top portion of a home on Heatherwood Drive Tuesday afternoon with no injuries reported, according to first responders.
An Ellisville family will be displaced this Christmas after a fire caused major damage to their single-story brick home.
A woman and her child are in the hospital after falling beneath a tractor-trailer in the annual Sertoma Christmas Parade in Laurel on Saturday, eyewitnesses said.
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A teenage girl told a Jones County jury that her former stepfather forced her to perform oral sex on him at the Halloween haunt “PsychoPath” in Ellisville back when she was a little girl.
A pregnant woman was caught in the crossfire when two men got into a shootout in the parking lot of Southern Hens in Moselle on Friday evening, sources with knowledge of the incident reported.
The body of a Hispanic man was found on a boat ramp in Eastabuchie in Jones County on Sunday morning and a suspect is in custody in an investigation that has been turned over to the Forrest County Sheriff’s Department.
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An Ellisville man was shot and wounded by a veteran Laurel police officer at a roadblock just before 1 a.m. on Friday.
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A veteran Laurel Fire Department employee was out on $10,000 following his arrest Friday on drug charges.
A man was taken to a hospital by helicopter after the pickup he was driving was struck by the northbound Amtrak Crescent passenger train this morning.
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The pursuit of a Memphis man and his 2-year-old daughter ended in Soso, with the man being arrested and the toddler being taken to South Central Regional Medical Center, presumably in good condition, Covington County Sheriff Stann Smith said.