Justice

2 Men in Custody After Shooting Near California UniversityViolence again struck the community near the University of California, Santa Barbara, a year after a 22-year-old's rampage left six students dead.
Hattiesburg Mourns 2 Slain OfficersWith lowered flags and prayers, a southern Mississippi city is mourning two police officers, while the four people arrested after their shooting deaths await an initial court appearance Monday.
Synthetic Pot Leads to Nationwide Spike in HospitalizationsA huge nationwide spike in hospitalizations last month caused by a class of drugs often called "synthetic marijuana" illustrates the potency and dangers of the chemicals used to make them and the shifty tactics authorities believe manufacturers are using to …
Pentagon Accused of Withholding Information About Sex CrimesIn a scathing critique of the Defense Department's efforts to curb sexual assaults, a U.S. senator warned Monday that the true scope of sex-related violence in the military communities is "vastly underreported" and that victims continue to struggle for justice.
FBI Searches Phoenix Home in Texas Prophet Contest ShootingFederal agents searched an apartment in Phoenix in an investigation into a shooting outside a suburban Dallas venue hosting a provocative contest for Prophet Muhammad cartoons, the FBI confirmed Monday.
Last of James Craig Anderson's Killers SentencedSentencing for the last pair of co-conspirators in one of the nation's largest ever hate-crime investigations is now under way in federal court in Jackson.
Why Does the State Still Want to Kill Willie Jerome Manning?Willie Jerome Manning has been on death row for more than two decades, facing the possibility of execution for two sets of murders that occurred about one month apart.
Walnut Grove Warden Defends Staff TrainingWalnut Grove has cleaned up its act. That's the message from top officials with the beleaguered privately operated prison and the Mississippi Department of Corrections. It's also the reason the MDOC wants to get out from under a federal court …
DA Dropping Charges Against Willie Jerome Manning in One Set of MurdersProsecutors will dismiss capital murder charges against Willie Jerome Manning, 46, for the deaths of two Starkville women in 1993 as Manning continues fighting his conviction in a separate case.
Hinds Public Defenders: Judge Weill Setting a Bad Precedent in Barring AttorneyAssistant Hinds County Public Defender Alison Kelly says Judge Jeff Weill's charges are "extreme."
State Fights Execution Drug Disclosure While Compensating Wrongfully ConvictedAt the same time the State of Mississippi continues fighting the release of details about where it gets drugs used in executions, Mississippi taxpayers will have to compensate people wrongfully convicted and incarcerated, including several who were sentenced to death.
Suit Says Mississippi Lethal Injections are UnconstitutionalTwo Mississippi prisoners condemned to death are challenging the legality of the state's lethal injection procedures.
Upon Further Review: Inside the Police Failure to Stop Darren Sharper's Rape SpreeDarren Sharper's rampage of druggings and rapes could have been prevented, according to a two-month investigation by ProPublica and The New Orleans Advocate based on police records in five states, hundreds of pages of court documents and dozens of interviews …
Judge Appointed to Assist Youth Courts StatewideFormer Adams County Youth Court Judge John N. Hudson is assisting juvenile courts across Mississippi with abused, neglected and delinquent children.
2 Women to be Sentenced in Slaying of Mississippi Black ManTwo young white women, part of a group who repeatedly searched Mississippi's capital city for black people to attack, are scheduled to be sentenced Thursday.