Vehicle erupts into flames overnight on Interstate 20
At approximately 2:20 a.m. on Friday, a vehicle caught flames after a collision on Interstate 20. The incident took place in Interstate 20 westbound in the median. It is unknown how many people were involved in the incident or what led to the crash. Please drive safe and responsibly.
Nursing homes bleed staff as Amazon lures low-wage workers with prime packages
By Sarah Varney, Kaiser Health News December 23, 2021 ERLANGER, Ky. — The sleek corporate offices of one of Amazon’s air freight contractors looms over Villaspring of Erlanger, a stately nursing home perched on a hillside in this Cincinnati suburb. Amazon Prime Air cargo planes departing from a recently opened Amazon Air Hub roar overhead. […]
During a COVID-19 surge, ‘crisis standards of care’ involve excruciating choices and impossible ethical decisions for hospital staff
By Matthew Wynia, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus The Conversation is running a series of dispatches from clinicians and researchers operating on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. You can find all of the stories here. As the omicron variant brings a new wave of uncertainty and fear, I can’t help reflecting back […]
Adams County man charged with over 1,000 counts of possession of child pornography
Adams County Sheriff’s Office has charged a man with 1,089 counts of possession of child pornography earlier this week. Tyler Anthony Keith, who is currently in jail in Galveston, Texas on unrelated charges, was charged with the crimes and is currently waiting to be extradited back. The charges came after weeks of investigating and more […]
Ralph Leroy Allison, 1966 – 2021
Ralph Leroy Allison passed away on Tuesday, Dec. 21. He was 55 years old. He was an avid outdoors man and was always willing to help someone. He is preceded in death by parents, Lindell Leroy Allison and Marion Hines. He is survived by his significant other, Ann Hambright; son, Karlton Allison; daughter, Allyson Allison; aunt, […]
Mississippi Today’s Anna Wolfe explains sprawling welfare fraud case
By Mississippi Today, Mississippi Today December 23, 2021 Nearly two years after officers from the Mississippi state auditor’s office made arrests in a sprawling welfare fraud scheme and turned their investigative files over to federal agents, four people still await trial and the FBI has made no arrests. A Hinds County grand jury indicted six […]
Elizabeth Lassiter (Betty) Biedenharn, 1921 – 2021
Elizabeth Lassiter (Betty) Biedenharn was born on July 14, 1921, and died peacefully at her home on December 17, 2021. Betty was born and raised in Vicksburg. After growing up at Church of the Holy Trinity in Vicksburg and participating in children and youth activities there, she graduated from Carr Central High School and attended […]
Gratefulness is possible, even in a pandemic
As COVID-19 ramped up in April 2020, before the vaccine, before the monoclonal antibodies, before the promising anti-viral drug Remdesivir, Mark Gilbert’s father was one of the earliest victims. “We lost my dad, and then my grandmother died,” said Gilbert, a University of Mississippi Medical Center hospital chaplain and ordained minister. “And then, one of […]
Auditor, DHS head object to broad gag order in welfare theft case
by Anna Wolfe, Mississippi Today December 21, 2021 Judge-ordered gags in the ongoing welfare embezzlement cases have prevented defendants, attorneys and prosecutors from speaking to the media about the criminal charges for the last year or so. But attorneys for one defendant, former Mississippi Department of Human Services Director John Davis, want officials to stop […]
‘Leaving our comfort zone:’ JFC goes on the road
JACKSON, Miss. – Some patients who depend on the Jackson Free Clinic for medical and dental care have no permanent shelter or roof of their own, wandering from place to place. The students who run the clinic have decided to be more like them. “That means getting out of the clinic and leaving our comfort […]