JACKSON COUNTY, MS (WLOX) - Mike Byrd once said being sheriff in Jackson County was a life-long dream. After all, it's a job his father Cecil once held. In 1999, Byrd defeated then-sheriff Pete ...

OCEAN SPRINGS, Mississippi -- Jackson County Sheriff Mike Byrd has just been served a 31-count indictment and will face charges of embezzlement, fraud, hindering prosecution, tampering with a witness, ...

Former Jackson County, Miss., Sheriff Mike Byrd was sentenced Thursday to six months of home confinement followed by three years' probation during an appearance in state court in Pascagoula.Byrd was ...