Kennedy Jones News Update 3/22

Slug: WELCOME

HELLO EVERYONE I’M KENNEDY JONES WITH YOUR JACKSON STATE NEWS NOW NEWS UPDATE.

THE TIME IS CURRENTLY 10:23 P.M.

THE TEMPERATURE IS FIFTY-NINE DEGREES.

Slug: Fatal police chase

A POLICE CHASE IN CLINTON LEFT AN INNOCENT BYSTANDER DEAD.

THE CHASE BEGAN AROUND 11:40 P.M. AFTER POLICE RECIVED A SHOPLIFTING CALL AT THE WALMART IN CLINTON WHERE COMPUTER AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT HAD REPORTEDLY BEEN STOLEN.

THE CAR DRIVEN BY THE ALLEGED THIEVES COLLIDED HEAD-ON WITH THE CAR DRIVEN BY THIRTY-FOUR YEAR OLD LONNIE BLUE JR, WHO DIED AT THE SCENE.

CLINTON POLICE IDENTIFIED THE DRIVER RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CRASH AS TWENTY-EIGHT YEAR OLD DONNELL WILLIAMS JOHNSON. 

JOHNSON AND TWO OTHER PASSENGERS WERE TAKEN INTO CUSTODY.

Slug: Westhaven double homicide

THE SECOND SUSPECT WANTED IN CONNECTION WITH A DOUBLE HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION IS NOW IN CUSTODY.

POLICE CAPTURED JOSHUA DUKES MONDAY AFTERNOON ON MCDOWELL CIRCLE.

HE IS BEING CHARGED WITH TWO COUNTS OF CAPITAL MURDER FOR THE MARCH FIFTH ROBBERY AND KILLING OF DANIEL GOMEZ AND ELI NUNEZ.

NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD ANTHONY HARRIS WAS ALSO NAMED AS A SUSPECT.

HARRIS TURNED HIMSELF INTO POLICE AND HE IS ALSO BEING CHARGED WITH TWO COUNTS OF CAPITAL MURDER.

Slug: NIssan protest

ONE LOCAL GROUP IS PROTESTING WHAT THEY CALL ANTI-UNION ACTIVITY FROM NISSAN.

THE MISSISSIPPI ALLIANCE FOR FAIRNESS AT NISSAN HELD A PRAYER VIGIL AND ACTION OUTSIDE THE CANTON PLANT TODAY.

THE GROUP SAYS NISSAN HAS SHOWN VIDEO THREATENING EMPLOYEES NOT TO SIGN UNION CARDS.

WHEN CONTACTED FOR A STATEMENT NISSAN STATED THAT THE DECISION TO JOIN OR NOT TO JOIN IS ENTIRELY UP TO THE EMPLOYEE.

THE COMPANY SAYS THERE HAS NEVER BEEN ENOUGH INTEREST IN CANTON TO BRING IT TO A VOTE.

Slug: JSU basketball season

THE JSU TIGERS MENS BASKETBALL TEAM OFFICIALLY ENDED THEIR SEASON LAST THURSDAY AS THEY FELL TO THE GRAND CANYON ANTELOPES IN THE SECOND ROUD CIT TOURNAMENT.

ALTHOUGH JSU STUDENTS HOPED THE TIGERS WOULD BRING HOME THE SWAC CHAMPIONSHIP, THEY BELIEVED THE TIGERS PLAYED A GREAT SEASON. 

SENIOR JOYCE WINSTON SAYS THE TIGERS PLAYED HARD THIS SEASON. 

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Slug: Traffic

THE LATEST TRAFFIC REPORT SHOWS THAT ALL ROADS AND MAJOR HIGHWAYS ARE CLEAR IN THE JACKSON METRO AREA.

Slug: Weather

THE TEMPERATURE FOR TONIGHT IS FIFTY-NINE DEGREES WITH A LOW OF FIFTY-FOUR DEGREES AND WINDS TRAVELING SOUTH AROUND TEN MILES PER HOUR.

WEDNESDAY WILL BE MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH A HIGH NEAR SEVENTY-SEVEN DEGREES AND A LOW OF SIXTY DEGREES.

FOR WEDNESDAY NIGHT, THERE IS A FIFTY PERCENT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS.

Slug: Goodbye

AND THAT WRAPS UP THE NEWS UPDATE.

THIS IS KENNEDY JONES WITH JACKSON STATE NEWS NOW.

THE TIME IS 10:25 P.M.

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