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Thursday, September 4, 2014
According to the Edwards Police Department, Stokes was from Edwards, and that the railroad tracks went by his back door. His body was found more than 100 feet from the original point of impact.
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Friday, June 6, 2014

A retired Jackson police officer is dead after he collided his motorcycle with a van Saturday afternoon.
It happened before 2:30 p.m. Saturday afternoon on Highway 22 just east of I-20 in Edwards.

According to Trooper Eric Henry, 49- year-old Richard Polk, formerly with JPD, was traveling westbound on his Honda motorcycle.

70- year -old Doris Stamps was traveling in a van eastbound on Highway 22 when she made a left turn into a church parking lot.

That was when Polk struck the passenger side of the van.