— The concept of building a new Shelby County Jail has broad support from the County Board of Commissioners, though not all agree on where it should be built or who pays for it.
— Prosecutors in Tiptonville announced they will seek the death penalty for Austin Robert Drummond, the man accused of killing four people and leading police on a weeklong manhunt before his capture in Jackson this week.
— The attorney for Cleotha Abston says a judge erred in allowing a photo of a gun to be shown to the jury in his 2024 trial for raping Alicia Franklin.
— In DeSoto County, Joshua Zimmerman, a man who escaped from a courtroom there and was later captured in Illinois, has pleaded guilty to attempted murder and was sentenced to 50 years in prison.
— Ford Motor Company is pushing back full production of electric pickup trucks at Blue Oval City from 2027 to 2028, the second delay since the project was announced in 2021.
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