Former Hinds Assistant DA admits to taking bribe JACKSON, MS (Mississippi News Now) – Former employees of the Hinds County District attorney’s office, turned FBI informants, took the stand in the trial of Hinds County District Attorney Robert Shuler Smith. The county’s top prosecutor is being charged with helping criminal defendants. Former assistant District Attorney…

Former lawmaker denied motion to withdraw guilty plea in corrections corruptions case Former Mississippi lawmaker Cecil McCrory wanted to withdraw his guilty plea for money laundering conspiracy. It’s been nearly two years since he entered that guilty plea. He’s since changed attorneys. His new lawyer didn’t think he had sufficient counsel previously… …The judge denied…

Oxford mayor not seeking re-eletion OXFORD, Miss. (AP/WTVA) — Oxford Mayor Pat Patterson says he will not be running for re-election in 2017. WTVA confirms reports that Patterson’s official announcement comes after 16 years of serving in the city government of Oxford. WTVA 12/21/16

More Mississippians on the job in November JACKSON, Miss. (WTVA) – The Mississippi Department of Employment Security says more Mississippians were on the job in November. The latest figures released Wednesday morning show the unemployment rate is 5.2 percent. Over 1.2 million Mississippians were working, but 63,700 were still listed without work. WTVA 12/21/16

AGs from Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Texas, Florida and Georgia as well as other AGs representing a combined 24 states penned a letter to US Senator Chuck Grassley supporting the confirmation of Donald Trump’s nominee for AG, Sen. Jeff Sessions. Mississippi’s AG Jim Hood (D) was notably absent from the list of Session supporters. Mississippi…

From the Award Winning Y’all Politics Memory division, here’s a smattering of media coverage of the incident shortly before the election http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/02/us/mississippi-black-church-vandalized-vote-trump/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2016/11/02/vote-trump-painted-on-wall-of-burned-out-black-church-in-mississippi/?utm_term=.de6091a3db30 http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/a-black-church-burned-in-the-name-of-trump/506246/ http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/03/500496061/fbi-investigating-burning-of-black-church-painted-with-vote-trump http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/03/us/black-church-burned-in-mississippi-with-vote-trump-scrawled-on-side.html?_r=0 Now, we in fact know that there’s been an arrest of a church member in that crime and that it looks less and less like it was a hate…

Arrest made in black Mississippi church burning State law enforcement officials say a member of the Greenville church that was burned and vandalized with “Vote Trump” in spray paint is in custody for the Nov. 1 crime. Greenville police on Wednesday arrested Andrew McClinton, 45, of Leland for setting Hopewell Baptist Church on fire and…

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Update on State v. Robert Shuler Smith Opening arguments begin today in State v. Robert Shuler Smith. Smith was indicted for three counts of improperly helping a criminal defendant. A flurry of motions and responses were filed over the weekend. Smith tried to call Attorney General Jim Hood as a witness and also tried to…

RELEASE: COCHRAN: $30 MILLION AWARDED TO DELTA SCHOOLS, EDUCATION PROGRAMS Five-Year Grant Will Support Deer Creek Promise Neighborhood Program Support Children, Education Achievement WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) today announced that the U.S. Department of Education is awarding nearly $30 million to childhood education programs in the Mississippi Delta. The nonprofit Delta…

Prosecutors want McCrory guilty plea withdrawal rejected in Epps case Federal prosecutors Monday asked U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate to deny the move earlier this month by Cecil McCrory of Brandon. Wingate will hear the issue Wednesday. Prosecutors reject McCrory’s claim that he wasn’t effectively aided by a lawyer. They say McCrory never before…