Belzoni, MS

New drama at the Greenwood Leflore Hospital. Our news partners at the Taxpayers Channel have learned the hospital recently fired two surgeons. The hospital reportedly fired Dr. Raymond Girneys and Dr. Alain Domkam, two long-time surgeons. The taxpayers channel also reports the hospital scrubbed the Delta Surgical Clinic from their...

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.

(Reuters) - The family of Emmett Till has unearthed a nearly 67-year-old arrest warrant for the white woman whose discredited accusations against the Black teenager led to his lynching, a brutal death that helped ignite the civil rights movement. Last week, a team that included family members searching files in...

June 30 (UPI) -- An unserved arrest warrant has been found for the White woman whose accusations led to the brutal 1955 murder of Black 14-year-old Emmet Till in Mississippi. Till's murder galvanized the civil rights movement. The warrant for Carolyn Bryant Donham, now in her 80's, was found by...

INDIANOLA – The new crop of workers arrived with clipped accents and small khaki shorts. Richard Strong remembers the young men – farmers back home – had never seen a massive 28,000-pound tractor until traveling some 8,000 miles to Mississippi. As kids, Richard and his brother, Gregory,...

A team of researchers including relatives of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old Black boy who was abducted and murdered in Mississippi in 1955, has discovered an unserved arrest warrant for the white woman whose accusations led to his gruesome death. The document was found last week in the basement of a...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A man has been indicted in a kidnap-for-ransom case that ended in a Mississippi man’s murder. The victim was abducted and held for ransom, then eventually killed, according to Shelby County District Attorney Amy Weirich. A grand jury indicted Alfonzo Buford, 44, on felony counts...

The Kosy Pops Concert will be Thursday, June 30. The annual event features a tribute to the armed services. The show starts at 7:00 pm and will be held at the Mary Ricks Thornton Cultural Center.

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A man has been indicted by grand jury on murder and additional charges stemming from an abduction of a Mississippi man who was held for ransom and killed, Amy Weirich’s Office said. Alfonzo Buford, 44, has been charged with felony counts of first-degree murder, murder in preparation of aggravated kidnapping, especially aggravated […]