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...
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.
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
Sanilac County Sheriff deputies responded very early morning on June 29 to a report of a two vehicle rollover crash in Lexington Township. The call came in around 1:15 a.m. Wednesday morning, with deputies responding, along with officers from Croswell Police Department, and Michigan State Police, to the accident scene on East Peck Road near Wixson Road. Deputies determined that a 48-year-old Croswell woman was driving west on East Peck Road in her 2008 GMC Sierra when she crossed the centerline, striking a 2000 Toyota Avalon head-on. The 2008 GMC Sierra overturned onto its passenger side, pinning its driver, as well as the Avalon’s driver, a 40-year-old woman from Lexington, into their vehicles. With both women pinned, the Croswell and Lexington Fire/Rescue crews worked together to free them both from the cars using the jaws of life.
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...
(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...
Florida State Professor Davis Houck — one of the country's leading scholars on the life and horrific death of Emmett Till — happened to be in Sumner, Mississippi, for a filmmaker’s workshop in late June when he got a call from a research associate with a bombshell development.
The 1955 unserved arrest warrant for Carolyn...