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Sam Olden

Sam Olden, Jr., died at home August 12, 2022, at the age of 103. He was born on a cotton plantation four miles up in the Delta from Yazoo City on March 27, 1919, the son of Samuel B. Olden and Catherine Clark Olden, both natives of Yazoo City, whose families had been in Yazoo County since the 1830s and early 1840s.

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Robert Carter

Robert “Robby” Wayne Carter, 53, passed away on Jan. 16, 2023 at his home.

Funeral services will be held on Jan. 19 at 10 a.m. at Central Baptist Church. Burial will follow at Central Holmes Cemetery under the direction of Stricklin King Funeral Home.

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They did it again!

Manchester Academy's girls basketball team defeated Tunica 47-45 to earn the program's second straight State Title.

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Patricia Langley

Patricia Langley, 72, of Yazoo City, passed away on June 7, 2023 at her home.

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Yazoo City man found guilty of six counts of statutory rape

A Yazoo City man will be sentenced next Thursday after a jury found him guilty of multiple counts of statutory rape this week.

Jimmy Allen was found guilty of six counts of statutory rape in a Yazoo County Circuit Court on Tuesday. Allen's sentencing will be held on April 14.

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This image released by Lionsgate shows Jennifer Lopez, left, and Josh Duhamel in a scene from "Shotgun Wedding." (Ana Carballosa/Lionsgate via AP)

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Review: Even J.Lo can't save this 'Shotgun Wedding'

Spoiler alert: J.Lo looks fantastic in a wedding dress.

You surely knew that, given not only the plethora of wedding-themed movies Jennifer Lopez has made over the years, from “The Wedding Planner” to “Monster-in-Law” to the recent “Marry Me,” but also her own offscreen life, of course.

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John Logan Jr.

John Pinkney Logan Jr., 65, of Yazoo City, passed away on Jan. 22, 2023 at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.

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Dr. Arnold Smith, below, became wildly fixated on Lee Abraham, above -- an obsession that prosecutors claimed led to an unsuccessful assassination attempt on the Greenwood attorney in 2012. Smith has not had to face a criminal trial because of his mental illness and settled in 2019 a lawsuit filed by Abraham.

The April 28, 2012, fatal shooting inside Lee Abraham’s law office brought a bevy of law enforcement officers and onlookers to the Market Street scene. Ten years later, no one has been tried in one of the most sensational crimes in Greenwood’s history. (By Charlie Smith)

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Trial might never happen for alleged murder-for-hire plot

It had the makings of the trial of the century.

Dr. Arnold Smith, an eccentric but accomplished oncologist with a maniacal obsession about Lee Abraham, had been charged with hiring a felon to try to assassinate the Greenwood attorney, but the felon was gunned down instead.