From WROX: A member of a black church in Greenville has pleaded guilty to arson. Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church was burned and spray painted with the slogan “Vote Trump” a week before the 2016 presidential election. Investigators believe the graffiti was intended as a distraction to make the arson appear politically motivated. 47-year old Andrew […]
From WROX: Mississippi attorney general Jim Hood wants a judge to order the state’s largest private utility to repay more than $1 billion he says Entergy Mississippi overcharged customers. Entergy says it’s done nothing wrong that the dispute belongs before a regulator, not a judge. Federal judge Carlton Reeves began hearing the case yesterday in […]
From WROX: The Mississippi Legislature ended its 2019 session Friday, approving a $1500 pay raise for public school teachers and passing laws that could help expand broadband to rural areas and protect children who are victims of human trafficking. Lawmakers also voted to ask Congress to call a national convention to consider changing the U.S. […]
Every now and then something wonderful happens! From WROX: A month after her house burned down, a Helena-West Helena woman won a $150,000 Powerball jackpot. LeAndra Clay’s ticket for the March 23rd drawing had four white numbers and the Powerball number to win $50,000; the Power Play tripled her prize. Clay said she had been […]
From 2019 EJI Calendar 1933: In Winston County, Mississippi 17 white men take 65-year-old Ruben Micou, a black man arrested for fighting with a prominent white man, from jail and his body is found whipped and shot to death. From EJI Timeline On April 2, 1933, a mob of white men broke into the Winston […]
From WROX: Last week’s meeting of the Clarksdale city board included a lengthy discussion about the Memory Lane Banquet Hall on MLK. Earlier this month the planning commission recommended conditional use of the property with several stipulations including having security inside and out at all events, no alcohol allowed, no noise and the property cannot […]
From WROX: At their meeting last week the board of Clarksdale Public Utilities recognized Michael Wade, who is retiring after 28 years of service to CPU. Commissioners also accepted a low bid of $4640 to replace approximately 200 feet of fencing at the south plant; general manager Curtis Boschert noted that the fence needed to […]
From WROX: Incidents involving aggressive panhandlers have kept Clarksdale police busy this week. After being held briefly earlier this month William Michael Hunter, also known as “Dollar Bill” has been seen walking in the middle of busy streets and harassing residents. Another individual was arrested after an aggravated assault Monday morning in the 200 block […]
From WROX: The city of Clarksdale will host a community police forum next Thursday, April 4th at 5:30 in the Civic Auditorium on Third Street. Results of earlier public meetings and surveys on safety will be shared and citizens will be able to ask questions of police officials. For more information about the forum, call […]
From 2019 EJI Calendar 1875: U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in U.S. v. Cruikshank in which three white men win reversal of conviction under the Ku Klux Klan Act for massacre of 150 black people in Colfax, Louisiana. From EJI Timeline Louisiana Lynch Mob Claims Federal Law Cannot Punish Them; Supreme Court Later Agrees On […]
