Sean Murphy

3 weeks ago | leader-call.com | Sean Murphy

Suspect’s mother faces charge of accessory after the fact•A 17-year-old is dead and a suspect is jailed in a shooting on Marion Drive in Laurel on May 24. Eric Drummond Jr., 21, is accused of the drive-by shooting of 17-year-old Jamal Pruitt on May 24 at about 10 a.m., according to the LPD incident report. “We don’t like to talk specifics about motive, but this does not appear to be a random shooting,” Laurel police Chief Tommy Cox said.

3 weeks ago | leader-call.com | Sean Murphy

A 2-year-old girl is reportedly fighting for her life after being shot while sitting in a vehicle with two others on Monday evening on Ellisville Boulevard near the South Laurel exit of Interstate 59. At about 6 p.m. Monday, the LPD received a call of a possible vehicle wreck, which was then reported as a shooting. When the LPD arrived, the car in which the victim was in was still on the scene. The girl and the other two passengers were taken by a passerby to South Central Regional Medical Center.

3 weeks ago | leader-call.com | Sean Murphy

I went to the grocery store this weekend. It’s a large, regional grocery chain, mostly in Louisiana and on the Gulf Coast. I have no allegiance to a grocery store. It depends on what is on sale — always what is on sale. As a kid, along with my mom doing the family grocery shopping, she’d give me a list of half the store — my half. I would get those items, then meet her in the middle. We never met in the middle.

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Sean Murphy

For non-citizens, the process is more fraught, with numerous reports of travelers being subject to denial, detention, or return to their point of origin, without clear explanation. If you are traveling abroad this summer, here are some things to know. Yes, the number of motor vehicles entering Canada from the US in April dropped by more than 10 percent compared to last year, the third consecutive month of declines, according to Statistics Canada.

4 weeks ago | leader-call.com | Sean Murphy

A man who is believed to be homeless threatened to shoot fellow customers at Walmart when, police said, they refused to get out of the way of his motorized grocery cart. James Gaitanis, 53, whose last known address was in the county, was facing charges of making terroristic threats, possession of a weapon by a felon, malicious mischief and disturbance of a business. It all unfolded on Tuesday at about 2:40 p.m. when Laurel police were dispatched to Walmart.