Lafayette County News

Sentencing for former Hinds County Circuit Judge Bobby DeLaughter is set for Nov.

OXFORD - An ex-convict is charged with manslaughter in the death of a cyclist earlier this year on the Natchez Trace Parkway.

Dr. Tom Fowlkes' new patients don't have to worry about insurance paperwork since his clinic only accepts cash.

For a commercial landscaper, October represents a transitional month. Grass cutting is slowing down and by month's end leaf raking is picking up.

LAFAYETTE COUNTY, Miss. a ' Talbot Brothers Construction and Grading Inc. of Nesbit, Miss., was awarded one of the first federal stimulus projects in northwest Mississippi from the Mississippi Department of Transportation.

Elizabeth Lee Maron, a partner in the Jackson office, has been reappointed to the Mississippi Commission on Continuing Legal Education.

Records show a man accused in last Friday's fatal standoff in Oxford was committed for treatment of mental illness just weeks earlier.

A deadly standoff in Oxford ends with the suspected gunman in custody. It happened inside a house in the upscale "Grand Oaks" Subdivision along Highway 7, east of town.

Police in Oxford said a hostage situation and standoff ended Friday with the arrest of a man suspected of shooting and killing his brother hours before.

A hostage situation has ended with the gunman in custody and another man shot to death in a home in Oxford, authorities say.

A man was in custody Friday after being accused of fatally shooting his brother and shooting at police during a standoff in Oxford.

One person was shot and killed during a standoff in Oxford Friday, police said. Oxford Mayor George Patterson said that at about 1:30 p.m., a "mentally deranged suspect" began a hostage standoff with police at a home in the Grand Oaks Country Club neighborhood.

Christian Bonner has been sentenced to 36 years in prison for using credit cards that belonged to slain University of Mississippi track star Rodney Lockhart.

A Lafayette County grand jury has indicted Caleb Carrothers for capital murder in the July slayings of a father and son.

Five new human cases of West Nile virus have brought to 34 the total number of cases this year.

An attorney for a man convicted of killing an Ole Miss student told the Mississippi Court of Appeals on Tuesday that David Williams should get a new trial because of the absence of a jury instruction related to his claim that the stabbing death was part of a mutual suicide pact.

An attorney for a man convicted of killing an Ole Miss student told the Mississippi Court of Appeals on Tuesday that David Williams should get a new trial because of the absence of a jury instruction related to his claim that the stabbing death was part of a mutual suicide pact.

While Congress expects to keep debating over a national health care insurance plan after its August recess, thousands of people in this county and elsewhere in Mississippi are going with no health insurance protection at all.

An attorney for David Williams told the Mississippi Court of Appeals on Tuesday that Williams should get a new trial because of the absence of a particular jury instruction.

An attorney for David Williams told the Mississippi Court of Appeals on Tuesday that Williams should get a new trial because of the absence of a jury instruction related to his claim that the stabbing death was part of a mutual suicide pact.