JACKSON COUNTY

Kesha Hamilton, a school board member in Michigan's Jackson County, was blasted by residents over divisive tweets about White people and whiteness.

Susana Mendoza was first elected as Illinois’ comptroller in 2016 after winning a special election following the death of Judy Baar Topinka.

Jurors have begun deliberations in a third trial connected to a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Prosecutors are urging a jury to convict three men for assisting the leaders of a plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor.

Prosecutors have rested their case in the trial of three men charged with assisting a 2020 plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Two 16-year-old girls went missing after their homecoming dance. The flipped car they were in was found just miles from home.

A judge has dismissed a young woman from the jury hearing the trial of three men in connection with a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer after attorneys accused her of flirting with one of the defendants.

A defense lawyer lashed out at a star witness in a trial related to a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Prosecutors tell judge that defendant Paul Bellar is flirting back, smiling and gesturing as the female juror looks his way and smiles.

Prosecutors are raising concerns about a female juror who apparently has been smiling at one of three men on trial in connection with a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Jurors in Michigan heard secretly recorded audio as prosecutors tried to show how a paramilitary group was connected to a plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

An FBI agent has testified that postings in online chatrooms by members of a paramilitary group connected to a 2020 anti-government plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer included instructions on how to make explosives.

A jury has been seated in the trial of three men charged in connection with a 2020 anti-government plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

Jury selection is underway in a third trial connected to a 2020 anti-government plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

A scheme to kidnap Michigan’s governor in 2020 will get yet another airing in court.

The man aggressively tailed the 17-year-old for 11 miles after she left her restaurant job, police said.

Officials are encouraging residents to be mindful of their surroundings after a Jackson County teenager was followed home recently.

On May 6, an estimated 100 smuggled migrants were m discovered inside a broken-down trailer in the tiny Jackson County town of Ganado.

The only thing falling out of the sky of late in Ganado, Texas is corn.

“If a case is brought in front of our clients, at least, they’ve indicated to us and the media that they’ll look at it,” said David Kallman, a lawyer with the conservative Great Lakes Justice Center. “And if the facts are there, they’ll charge, because the law is the law and it’s in effect.”

An arbitrator found that a man was liable because his romantic partner contracted HPV after he had been diagnosed and they had sex in his car.

The verdict, in favor of a transgender student who was not allowed to use the boys’ bathrooms or locker rooms, was one of the largest known awards in such a case.

Jacob Blair Scott, who faked his own death before being arrested on multiple child sex crimes charges, bought multiple morning after pills after the child told him the news, according to testimony. Here’s more from court.

Osman Igal of Kansas City followed a group of people participating in a frisbee golf tournament on Saturday before firing three to four shots, critically injuring one member.

Federal charges have been filed against the driver of an 18-wheeler that is at the center of an immigrant smuggling investigation. Codi Denise Hartman is accused of transporting the immigrants from Donna to Jackson County, where the rig ran out of gas.

A Wharton County trooper found a group of migrants trapped in a trailer east of Ganado. Officials believe 70 to 100 migrants fled the scene.

Authorities are investigating after at least 80 migrants were found inside a disabled 18-wheeler in Jackson County Friday morning, officials with the Texas Department of Public Safety confirmed.

Police said in an affidavit for a search warrant that a woman called from the house and said the devil was trying to attack her.

Two men are charged in the Christmas Eve crime, according to a press release. Here’s what we know.

"Joy, sorrow, fear. I am trying to figure out how to put them together," Kevin Strickland said after he was released. He was jailed for more than 40 years after a wrongful murder conviction.

If he is exonerated, Strickland’s four decades behind bars would be the longest confirmed wrongful conviction in Missouri’s history — and one of the longest in the nation’s history.

Amanda Metzler, a licensed cannabis grower, has beefed up security around her property and no longer dares to go out after dark because she's afraid of armed cartel members who run illegal marijuana farms in her region — even directly across the street. Elin Miller, a vineyard owner, said the illegal sites have lured away so many field workers that grape growers and wineries are suffering labor shortages, particularly at harvest time. Jackson County Sheriff Nathan Sickler says the crime rate, associated with the thousands of illegal marijuana farms that have sprung up this year in southern Oregon, has gone through the roof.

The attackers, who were said to be juveniles and adults, showed up to the underage Halloween party in unincorporated Jackson County uninvited, the sheriff office said on Facebook.

The child was “clinging” to the unit being towed by the tractor when he fell.

On the same day last week that a southern Oregon county declared a state of emergency amid a sharp increase in illegal cannabis farms, police raided a site that had about two tons of processed marijuana and 17,500 pot plants. The raid illustrates that the proliferation of industrial-scale marijuana farms has gotten so bad and so brazen that Jackson County Commissioners asked Gov. Kate Brown to send in the Oregon National Guard “to assist, as able, in the enforcement of laws related to the production of cannabis.” During last Wednesday's raid in Medford, Oregon, police found a vast outdoor growing operation, plus harvested plants hanging upside down on drying racks and 3,900 pounds (1,800 kilograms) of resinous buds stashed in huge bags and in stacks of plastic storage containers.

They divert precious water during the severe drought and abuse their workers, overwhelmed local officials say.

A county in southern Oregon says it is so overwhelmed by an increase in the number and size of illegal marijuana farms that it declared a state of emergency Wednesday, appealing to the governor and the Legislature's leaders for help. The Jackson County Board of Commissioners said law enforcement officers and county and state regulators and code enforcers are overwhelmed and warned of an “imminent threat to the public health and safety of our citizens from the illegal production of cannabis in our county.” Illegal marijuana grows have been a persistent problem throughout the West, even in states like California that have legalized pot.

A Mississippi sheriff's department said Tuesday that it has identified the skeletal remains of a woman found nearly 44 years ago, and investigators believe she was a victim of the now-deceased Samuel Little, the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history. Hunters found the woman's remains in December 1977 in the small community of Escatawpa in coastal Jackson County, Mississippi, and investigators had referred to her since then as “Escatawpa Jane Doe.” Sheriff Mike Ezell said in a news release Tuesday that investigators used DNA to identify the remains as those of Clara Birdlong, who was born in 1933 in Leflore County, Mississippi, which is nearly 300 miles (483 kilometers) northwest of Jackson County.

On Monday, search and rescue was the priority as many who stayed behind were left stranded on roofs and in attics.

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Federal law enforcement investigators will spend a second day gathering evidence at the property.

The excavation of the property was part of a missing person investigation. The owner is in jail, accused of seven felonies related to child sex crimes.

A former Florida sheriff's deputy received a 12-year prison sentence for planting drugs inside drivers' cars during traffic stops and then arresting them. Former Jackson County deputy Zachary Wester, 28, did not speak at Tuesday's hearing. Internal affairs investigators found the drugs hidden inside Wester’s patrol car in the summer of 2018, shortly before he was suspended.

“She said that they told her they buried the body,” the detective who interviewed the girl wrote in a court document.

Authorities found human remains buried on his residential property on Wednesday while investigating a missing person case.

Authorities were summoned to the 4000 block of South Buckner-Tarsney Road around 9:30 a.m. Wednesday.

The residents of about 100 trailer homes at Heart Mobile Village will be displaced by the project.

Kevin Strickland has “worked to evade responsibility” in the 1978 murders, the attorney general argued. Local prosecutors maintain he’s innocent.

At least one county official says the move might raise questions about the objectivity of the planning process for the largest construction project since the Truman Sports Complex renovations.

“Almost two centuries later, we hold a broader, more inclusive view of our nation,” the plaque says. “Jackson’s ownership of slaves and his support for the Indian Removal Act are part of his history.”

Democrat Dan Tarwater joined with the two Republicans in opposing the legal challenge that other Democrats supported

The case will be evaluated by a special use of force committee run by the prosecutor’s office.

The shooter told the victim “Remember me, b----!” before announcing his name and shooting him again, court records said.

Prosecutors say after the man allegedly shot the 30-year-old woman, he wrapped her head in a Kansas City Chiefs towel. She was pronounced dead at the hospital.

He told police his father said, “It’s going to be you or me” before he grabbed the knife from the bed and stabbed him, according to court records.

“I am not convinced that I’m willing to put other people at risk if you’re not right,” Gov. Mike Parson said.

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Oregon is converting motels into homes for wildfire survivors with nowhere else to go.

Oregon is converting motels into homes for wildfire survivors with nowhere else to go.

Students under 12 aren’t even eligible to get vaccinated yet — and they aren’t immune to the virus.

“What we did in this case was wrong,” Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said.

Prosecutors say Reid, the son of Chiefs head coach Andy Reid, was driving nearly 84 miles per hour just seconds before the crash.

Former Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid has been charged with driving while intoxicated after a crash that critically injured a 5-year-old girl.

This photo provided by the Jackson County Sheriffs Office shows Joseph Morrison. Agents foiled a stunning plot to kidnap Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, authorities said Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020 in announcing charges in an alleged scheme that involved months of planning and even rehearsals to snatch her from her vacation home. According to an FBI affidavit, Morrison is one of the founding members of the Wolverine Watchmen, which authorities described as an anti-government, anti-law enforcement militia group. (Jackson County Sheriffs Office via AP)

Gretchen Whitmer, authorities said Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020 in announcing charges in an alleged scheme that involved months of planning and even rehearsals to snatch her from her vacation home. (Jackson County Sheriffs Office via AP)DETROIT – The U.S. Marine Corps confirmed Saturday that two men charged in plots against Michigan's government spent time in the military. Harris is one of six men charged federally with conspiring to kidnap Democratic Gov. Morrison was a lance corporal and served in the Marine Corps Reserve from 2015 until Thursday, the day he was arraigned on state charges. The Marine Corps said his departure from the reserves is “unrelated to (his) current situation.”Morrison’s last assignment was with the 4th Marine Logistics Group in Battle Creek, Michigan.

The former treasurer of Jackson County, Kentucky, was sentenced today to 45 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. U.S. District Judge Claria Horn Boom sentenced Beth N. Sallee, 39, of McKee, Kentucky, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky. Sallee was also ordered to pay $161,808.23 in restitution for devising a multi-year scheme to defraud the Jackson County Fiscal Court of over $160,000 and for misusing the identity of a Jackson County employee to facilitate her theft. The unauthorized checks drew on various Jackson County Fiscal Court accounts, including the Department of Emergency Services grant, payroll and general fund accounts. To enable her scheme, Sallee forged the signature of other Jackson County employees on unauthorized checks without their knowledge or permission.

Its more than a year before the presidential election, but across the state of Wisconsin it could be fall 2020. We have to do everything we can to reelect him.Most voters across the country are not yet giving much thought to the 2020 presidential election. But in Wisconsin, a state that strategists on both sides think could decide the 2020 race, the parties are arming to the teeth earlier than ever. The Trump campaign last summer named its Wisconsin state director, months earlier than is typical. Andrew Hitt, chairman of the Wisconsin GOP, said he hears the same refrain as he travels the state.

WHARTON COUNTY, Texas – Tropical Depression Bill is causing problems for Wharton County, according to the Precinct 2 Wharton County Constable's Office. All lanes of Highway 59 at the Wharton County/Jackson County line are closed in both directions due to high water. The flooding that shut down Highway 59 also caused concerns in the city of Wharton Wednesday. The University Place Apartments in the 300 block of University lost power before midnight and a resident smelled electric lines smoldering. "Even though the water wasn't that high when they would drive thru the high water it would push it into peoples homes and businesses causing serious problems," Stanphill said.