Guntown News

Matt Blanchard's competitive spirit as a college football player shows - he's taking on the legal world by himself in a job market still reeling from the nation's economic downturn.

Prosecutors have increased the severity of charges against the mother of a man who abducted two young Tennessee girls after he killed their mother and oldest sister.

Days of grueling searches for two young girls and the kidnapper who killed their mother and sister led to the kind of terrain that favors the hunted - high hardwoods and deep ravines near a red-brick church perched on a hill.

By Chris Kieffer and J.B. Clark Daily Journal GUNTOWN - A parent of a Guntown Middle School student was arrested on Wednesday morning and charged with disorderly conduct and public profanity.

A Police memorial luncheon was held at the Trade Mart building on the fairgrounds Tuesday noon.

A parent of a Guntown Middle School student was arrested on Wednesday morning and charged with disorderly conduct and public profanity.

President Barack Obama honored the nation's top police officers on Saturday, paying tribute to their sacrifices and "quiet courage" in the line of duty.

Officers described 12-year-old Alexandria Bain and her 8-year-old sister Kyliyah as "stoic" the moments after their kidnapper killed himself late Thursday afternoon in the woods near the Zion Hill Baptist Church in Union County.

ALPINE COMMUNITY, Mississippi -- The most-wanted fugitive in America shot himself dead on Thursday, but the two girls he was suspected of kidnapping were found alive, ending a drama that began with the killing of the girls' mother and older sister.

The panicked voice came into Ambition's air traffic control room - one of the aircraft carrier's young pilots was in trouble.

In the past three weeks, Jefferson County deputies have raided six drug houses and made 13 arrests.

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Dozens of heavily armed teams in camouflage are combing the woods around Adam Mayes trailer in Union County, Mississippi.A The FBIA says they are continuing to search in the woods around Adam Mayes home because this is where the evidence and leads keep bringing them.

A Mississippi manhunt for a fugitive accused of kidnaping and a double slaying had small town residents on lockdown Thursday and shattered the feeling of safety in a place where everyone knows their neighbors.

The Mississippi man on the run from a double-slaying thought he might be the father of the two girls he's now accused of kidnapping, his mother-in-law said.

Wednesday was an historic day in the United States, as President Barack Obama became the first sitting president to endorse gay marriage.

This combination of two undated photos provided by the Hardeman County, Tenn. Sheriff's Office on Tuesday, May 8, 2012 shows Mary Francis Mayes, left, mother of Adam Mayes, and Teresa Mayes, Adam Mayes' wife.

Surveillance video of Adam Mayes at bottom of story. GUNTOWN - Heavily-armed FBI agents and authorities from Mississippi and Tennessee resumed searching woods and back roads Wednesday for what they said was a dangerous man suspected of killing a Tennessee woman and her teenage daughter and fleeing with her two younger girls.

Surveillance footage from the County Line One Market in Guntown, MS on April 30, 2012, prior to Adam Mayes being named as a kidnap-murder suspect.

The intense search for a man accused of abducting a Tennessee woman and her three daughters continued Tuesday after authorities said the mother and her oldest daughter were found dead in north Mississippi, behind a house the alleged kidnapper rented.