Sheldon Timothy Herrington Jr., center, who is on trial for the murder of University of Mississippi student Jimmie "Jay" Lee, and his defense attorneys enter the Lafayette County Courthouse in ...

Lafayette County Mississippi was named for the Frenchman Marquis de Lafayette and was the setting for writer William Faulkner’s fictional Yoknapatawpha County. The University of Mississippi ...

Lafayette County Mississippi was named for the Frenchman Marquis de Lafayette and was the setting for writer William Faulkner’s fictional Yoknapatawpha County. The University of Mississippi ...

Jarvis Dortch, executive director of the ACLU of Mississippi. “Our goal in this case is to achieve fair representation for Black people in Mississippi. This ruling striking down the state’s ...

A Mississippi man was charged with crimes involving the sexual assault of a child after an investigation, the Lafayette County Sheriff's Office (LCSO) said Tuesday.

OXFORD – An elderly Lafayette County man has been charged with murder after a fatal domestic incident. Lafayette County deputy sheriffs were dispatched to a residence in the 100 block of Heights ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WTVA) — Mississippi's attorney general is asking the state's highest court to set an execution date for the man convicted of a 1993 killing in Tippah County. Charles Ray Crawford was ...

(WTVA) — Some local voters will return to the polls Tuesday for runoff elections to settle some races from earlier this month. People in Noxubee County will help decide if Justice Jim Kitchens should ...

A Lafayette County judge declared Jimmie "Jay" Lee, a missing University of Mississippi student, legally dead last month, which was more than two years after Lee disappeared.. Lee, a 20-year-old ...

the neshoba county native is running to become a mississippi supreme court justice in the central district. >> i’m the only candidate with legal and legislative experience. I’M A WIFE AND A MOTHER AND ...

Caleb Corrothers, 42, was sentenced to death in 2011 for the 2009 murders of a Lafayette County man and his son, ... His most current petition in the Mississippi Supreme Court was denied.

T he Lafayette County Sheriff’s Office said two Georgia men have been arrested for a social security scheme, and investigators are trying to determine if there are more victims in North Mississippi.