The office had 70 criminal trials in 2025, resulting in 29 guilty verdicts and 33 guilty pleas.

Hinds County prosecutors believe they have a confession in the 2023 killing of Jackson State student Jaylen Burns, a major development in the case.

The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. Among the ...

Over 20 years ago on Feb. 5, 1994, Byron de la Beckwith, a white supremacist, was convicted of killing civil rights leader ...

President Donald Trump’s administration won’t allow a Ku Klux Klan member convicted of murdering a civil rights leader to be ...

A mum accused of murdering an elderly couple in a fire has told a jury that she had a video of their funeral on her phone ...

JPD has considered the precinct a crime “hotspot” for years now. Last year, 24 — or 38% — of the city’s homicides occurred in ...

Critics say new edits to National Park Service materials strip away the violent, racist reality of Medgar Evers’ murder. On ...

A coroner has criticised the psychiatrist who treated Bondi Junction killer Joel Cauchi for years, and referred her to the Queensland Health Ombudsman.

Jackson recorded in 2026 its fewest number of homicides to start the year when compared to data from the past two years.

A 19-year-old pled guilty in the shooting death of a 15-year-old in Jackson. Hinds County District Attorney Jody Owens said ...

An attorney for two brothers released from jail after a Jackson shooting criticizes the Capitol Police investigation, ...