Dewitt Echols, who was originally indicted with first-degree premeditated murder, avoided a mandatory life sentence after the jury determined he did not kill 33-year-old James Johnson in a ...

The victim, identified as 53-year-old Robert W. Echols, lived on Lovejoy Lane in Alton, according to a statement from Madison County Coroner Nicholas P. Novacich. As reported by the Alton ...

Dewitt Echols, a 34-year-old from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, faces one count of first-degree premeditated murder after a grand jury previously indicted him for the murder of 33-year-old James Johnson.

Ersland, now 72, sought an early release from his life sentence for the 2009 shooting death of 16-year-old Antwun Parker during an attempted robbery at Reliable Discount Pharmacy. In May 2009 ...

Ersland shot at the masked teens as they attempted to flee. One of the teens, Antwun Parker, was knocked unconscious in the pharmacy by the shots. Surveillance video from inside the pharmacy ...

Surveillance video showed Ersland, a pharmacist, firing a shot that incapacitated Antwun Parker. After chasing away his accomplice, Ersland fired more shots into an unconscious Parker.

Candace Echols is a Midtown resident, wife, and mother of five. A regular contributor to The Daily Memphian, she is a freelance writer who also recently published her first book, the children’s book ...

India TV’s claims that HMPV is a mysterious virus, or speculation that a new virus may have arisen out of China, are false. Igor Kirillov had overseen the use of chemical weapons in Ukraine and ...