Mark Thornton

So much for my rolling retirement plan. It made sense in my mind and on paper, but not in reality. Selling my house and paring down my possessions to six Rubbermaid boxes, a few pieces of precious family furniture and the pickup that hauled it all was part of the plan that worked. Mark Thornton Going to truck-driving school at KLLM to get my CDL went OK, too. I was prepared for that fast-tracked 22-day course and for what was supposed to be the worst part of it — the on-the-road training.

A Jones County man is going to prison for slamming his car into an elderly woman’s SUV during a road-rage incident in downtown Ellisville. Chaz Williams, 30, was ordered to serve three years in the full-time custody of the Mississippi Department of Corrections after pleading guilty in Jones County Circuit Court to aggravated assault. He admitted to intentionally slamming into 74-year-old Judith Williamson’s small SUV with a Nissan Altima he was driving, then getting out and threatening her.

In the Book of Judges, the children of Israel were handed over to the Philistines for 40 years for doing evil in the sight of the Lord. In Jones County Circuit Court, a judge ordered a 40-year-old Moselle methamphetamine dealer to serve 39 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of doing evil.