Latimer NewsLocal news for Latimer, MS continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.the Week in Crime: Captured jail escapee commits suicide- February 3, 2008 A round up of major crime reported across South Mississippi last week:Four inmates, including a capital murder suspect, escaped from the Harrison County jail early Sunday. All four have been captured; one of the escapees hung himself. The inmates used a 300-pound cell door to smash through a concrete wall.A Picayune couple was charged with capital murder on Sunday after authorities responded to their home and found a 16-month-old baby dead. Alison Regina Holmes, the 23-year-old mother of the...http://www.topix.net/city/latimer-ms/2008/02/the-week-in-crime-captured-jail-escapee-commi... Man shot by deputy after attack on family- February 2, 2008 A Jackson County sheriff's deputy shot and wounded a man who was 'hooped up on Xanax' and muscle relaxers Wednesday after his wife and her stepfather were assaulted at a home in the Latimer community, Sheriff Mike Byrd said.James Charles Abner, 35, was shot shortly after he ran from a shed behind the home on Brodnax Road late Wednesday night and retreated to a wooded area.The sheriff said deputies tried to persuade Abner to surrender but he ran out of the woods threatening to harm the...http://www.topix.net/city/latimer-ms/2008/02/man-shot-by-deputy-after-attack-on-family?fro... Latimer Man Shot After Pointing A Gun At Officers- February 1, 2008 A Jackson County Sheriff's deputy shot a man Wednesday night after responding to a domestic dispute in Latimer. via WLOX-TV Biloxihttp://www.topix.net/city/latimer-ms/2008/01/latimer-man-shot-after-pointing-a-gun-at-offi... |