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OUTHAVEN, Miss. - A now-former Southaven police officer is being accused of working with criminals to steal an Infiniti late last year in DeSoto County. Tony Herring Jr. is charged with felony vehicle theft and conspiracy to commit vehicle theft, DeSoto County District Attorney Matthew Barton confirmed Wednesday afternoon. However, Barton says that prosecutors believe Herring could be connected to more thefts. “We have reason to believe that it wasn’t necessarily a one-off crime,” .... Herring was arrested in Horn Lake, Mississippi, on Wednesday after an indictment out of DeSoto County. Barton’s newly-formed Public Corruption Unit brought the charges, bearing...

One of the Caribbean prison escapees accused of hijacking a retired American couple's yacht was shot during his arrest on the island of St. Vincent, and the other two hid in bushes, according to local reports. Details were revealed during Monday's court appearance, when the judge ordered the three suspects – Ron Mitchell, 30, Trevon Robertson, 19, and Abita Stanislaus, 25 – to be sent back to Grenada "as soon as practicable." Robertson was shot by police after he allegedly tried to grab an officer's gun, according to Searchlight and other local outlets. He denied those accusations, reportedly telling the...

by Joe Callen Daytona Beach police Chief Craig Capri told reporters they were called out to an apartment complex after an anonymous tip that a suspect wanted for attempted murder was located there. “The suspect fled into a back bedroom,” Capri said. “The officers follow the suspect, Michael Harris, ordering him to freeze, halt, surrender. As the officer opened the door, the suspect took a firearm and shot at our officers.” Capri said they were serving an arrest warrant after the man shot a woman twice in the back two weeks ago. Harris was also holding another woman hostage...

<p>Vincent Chin promised his mother that this was the last time he’d be going out to the club. Before he left home, she told him not to say “last time” as it was bad luck.</p> <p>I suspect that anybody with a Chinese, Asian, South Asian parent or grandparent has heard some version of such words. It’s so relatable, so familiar.</p>

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) on Saturday told demonstrators in Los Angeles protesting the Trump administration’s immigration policies that anyone who shoots at the lawmaker “better shoot straight.” Waters claimed on Thursday she was forced to pull out of events in Alabama and Texas after she received death threats. “There was one very serious death threat made against me on Monday from an individual in Texas, which is why my planned speaking engagements in Texas and Alabama were cancelled (sic) this weekend,” the outspoken Trump critic said in a statement. “This is just one in several very serious threats the United...

A locally known Ferguson activist who protested in the streets seeking justice for Michael Brown Jr.’s death was killed early Tuesday, September 6 in North St. Louis County. Police say their investigation revealed that Seals suffered a gunshot wound before the car was set on fire. The incident is currently being investigated as a homicide.