Author: Donna Campbell, The (Brookhaven) Daily Leader | Magnolia State Live

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Suspect accused of armed robbery at Walmart caught after ramming police truck

A Jackson man accused of robbing an 82-year-old woman at gunpoint in the Walmart parking lot Tuesday was ... Read more

Culture

On Veterans Day, a Mississippi man tells the story of his father who was captured twice during the Korean War

Cpl. Byron Tillmon Bishop Jr. died a hero more than half a century after he returned from the ... Read more

Culture

Who’s buried beneath the 40-yard line at Bogue Chitto High School?

Don’t stand on the 40-yard line on the west end of Troy Smith Field at Bogue Chitto High ... Read more

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Mississippi restaurant owner pulls the plug on NFL broadcasts over players’ protests of national anthem

Randy Eckman, the owner of Fox's Pizza Den in Brookhaven, Miss. will no longer air any NFL games ... Read more

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Two men arrested at Mississippi bus station with $30,000 worth of ecstasy

The Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics arrested two men at the Greyhound bus station in Brookhaven Monday in connection with ... Read more

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Dedication to beloved Brookhaven doctor Dr. A. L. Lott reflects the life of a man who ‘just wanted to help people’

Dr. Lott, who died in 1993, loved people and Brookhaven almost as much as he loved being a ... Read more