COPIAH COUNTY, MS (WLBT) - The high-profile Copiah County murder trial of David Dickerson has been delayed until next year.

Copiah County District Attorney Alexander Martin says the trial has been postponed until March 19. The trial had been scheduled to begin Tuesday.

Dickerson is charged with the stabbing and shooting death of 36-year-old Paula Hamilton.

Hamilton was the mother of Dickerson’s teenage daughter.

District Attorney Martin says the defense filed a request for a continuance in the trial so Dickerson can be evaluated by psychiatrists.

COPIAH COUNTY, MS (WLBT) - A Crystal Springs woman was arrested Wednesday and is facing Medicaid fraud charged.

Attorney General Jim Hood said, 58-year-old Linda Harris, an attendant care provider, was arrested Wednesday following and indictment Sept. 27, by a Copiah County Grand Jury for one count of felonious Medicaid fraud, exploitation of a vulnerable person and uttering a forgery.

Harris allegedly made false statements when making claims for reimbursement for making trips to see a patient, when the patient actually lived in Harris’ home.

HAZLEHURST, MS (WLBT) - Two Copiah County men have been charged with multiple counts of felony woods arson in two counties.

According to a news release from the Mississippi Forestry Commission, Shelton Coleman, 24, of Wesson, and Chester Albert Borne III, 23, of Hazlehurst, have each been charged with four counts of felony woods arson and one count or first degree arson for allegedly burning a structure in Copiah County.

In Lawrence County, the men have been charged with one county of felony arson and two counts of first degree arson for allegedly burning two structures.