UPDATE: Endangered/ Missing Child Alert issued for missing Lee County child
Friday update: Child found safe (Original story Thursday at 2:12 pm. Updated 7:29 p.m.) The Lee County Sheriff’s Department is searching for a missing child, and around 7 PM Thursday, the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation issued an Endangered/Missing Child Alert. Robert Holcomb Jr. is a 5 year old white male. He is 3’8″ tall and […]
State Auditor says Holmes Co. Consolidated School District leaders misspent county money
Today State Auditor Shad White announced that former Holmes County Consolidated School District Superintendent James Henderson, former Chief Financial Officer Cheryl Peoples, and four former school board members (Anthony Anderson, Louise Winters, April Jones, and Elder Dean) were issued demand letters resulting from audit findings released in December 2020. The demands are as followed: James […]
Police serve warrants, bring out search teams in Jimmie “Jay” Lee case
On Thursday afternoon, police in Oxford and at the University of Mississippi updated the progress of the investigation into the disappearance of Ole Miss student Jimmie “Jay” Lee. Lee was last seen Friday leaving the Campus Walk Apartments around 6 a.m. wearing a silver robe or housecoat, a gold sleeping cap and gray slippers. His […]
Forrest County Sheriff’s Office introduces new app from TheSheriffApp.com
The Forrest County Sheriff’s Department can now keep their community informed better than ever with an app that lets them keep up with what’s going on. If you’re looking for information on inmates at the jail, or on sex offenders or Forrest County’s Most Wanted, the app has it all. You can also find information […]
Missing Ole Miss student’s father asks the public to help find his son
The father of missing Ole Miss student Jimmie “Jay” Lee spoke in a video released by Oxford Police Department Wednesday afternoon, and asked that anyone with information please come forward. Jimmie Lee, public policy major, had been working with the Lafayette County Child Protection Services on a drive to bring in formula for children who […]
Thursday Weather: Rainy, cooler temps
Scattered showers and storms will develop later this morning and continue through the afternoon into evening hours. High temperatures will range from the upper 80s to low 90s. Rain and storm chances will linger across the region into the evening hours, but will end by midnight. Expect partly to mostly cloudy skies, with lows in […]