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A Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled that a death row inmate will not be allowed to seek additional DNA testing on crime scene evidence from the shooting deaths of two college students nearly 30 years ago. Willie Jerome Manning, now 54, remains in the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. He...

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - It’s been more than 60 years since 14-year-old Emmett Till was brutally murdered in Money, Mississippi, after being accused of whistling at a white woman. It is a case that galvanized the civil rights movement. Now the calls for justice in the case grow louder...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled that a death row inmate will not be allowed to seek additional DNA testing on crime scene evidence from the shooting deaths of two college students nearly 30 years ago. Willie Jerome Manning, now 54, remains in the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. He was […]

Relatives of Till are hoping that the document prompts a new investigation into his murder, which was a catalyst for the civil rights movement.

ITTA BENA, Miss. – The Mississippi Valley State athletic department is in the process of bringing aboard qualified work-study and volunteer applicants who would like to work this fall. The support staff/work-study positions are not guaranteed to all of those who submit applications, which can be filled out here.

Level: Division I FCS – Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) Talk about your experience as a student. What is your major/minor? Did you participate in any other activities or campus organizations other than football?. Major: Engineering Technology. What do your teammates say is your best quality?. Being competitive – everyday...

About a decade ago, Hakim McClellan was fresh off of winning a SWAC title in the 200- meter dash and dreaming of breaking into the business of college athletics.  That's when the Gulfport native met Jackson State athletic director Ashley Robinson while working a work-study job at Mississippi Valley State. ...

Family members of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old Black teen whose murder in the Jim Crow South spurred the civil rights movement in America, say they have unearthed an unserved arrest warrant for the White woman who accused him of making advances toward her, sparking the events that led to his death nearly 70 years ago.

Several local troopers with the Mississippi Highway Patrol Troop-D (Greenwood) have been promoted to Trooper First Class. Left to Right: TFC Jose Watson D-08, TFC Gary Liggins D-22, TFC Dillon Norwood D-27, TFC Kenneth Baron, II B-72, TFC Darren Johnson D-30, TFC Robert Land D-21, TFC Ryan Smith D-29, and TFC Dane Gibson D-10.

The family of Emmett Till is resuscitating calls for the arrest of the White woman who claimed the Black teen whistled at her which led to his gruesome murder nearly 70 years ago in Mississippi. The kidnapping, hanging, shooting and overall mutilation of Till back in 1955 was so shocking...

More bad news tonight for the troubled Greenwood Leflore Hospital... Our news partners at The Taxpayers Channel report, at a Friday board meeting, the hospital disclosed financial losses for May totaled more than 3 million dollars, a million more than the month before. What's more, a financial presentation shows the...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) -It was a gruesome murder in 1955 of a 14-year-old boy that horrified people around the world. Emmett Till’s body was mutilated after falsely being accused of whistling at a white woman. Now, almost 70 years after his death, an outstanding arrest warrant for that woman...

An unserved arrest warrant from 1955 names Carolyn Bryant Donham in connection to the murder of Emmett Till.