BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, May 17 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Louisiana issued the following news release on May 15, 2024: A former Mississippi Bureau of Investigations Officer assigned to the U.S. Marshals' Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force pleaded guilty today to using excessive force against a handcuffed arrestee. According to court documents and evidence presented in court, on Sept. 16, 2021, John Winstead was working as a federal task force officer whe  more

JACKSON, Mississippi, May 16 -- The U.S. Army Forces Command issued the following news: By Walter T. Ham IV U.S. military units trained for domestic nuclear forensics missions with interagency partners during Exercise Prominent Hunt in Jackson, Mississippi. Soldiers from the 20th Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, Explosives (CBRNE) Command's Nuclear Disablement Team (Infrastructure) 2 and CBRNE Response Team 3, 46th Chemical Company (Technical Escort), certified to serve on the Nat  more

JACKSON, Mississippi, May 16 -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued the following news release on May 14, 2024: * * * Federal Agency Charged Company Disclosed Employee's Confidential Medical Information and Fired Her for Complaining * * * Headquartered in Tennessee, Tractor Supply Company, the nation's largest rural lifestyle retailer with over 2,400 stores and more than 50,000 employees, has agreed to pay $75,000 and provide other relief to settle a disability discrimination   more