Jackson Woman Charged With Collecting Benefits While Working

A Jackson woman faces up to five years in prison and $15,000 in fines over allegations that she committed one count of workers’ compensation fraud. Francine Owens, 35, who goes by the last name of Wren, turned herself in Wednesday to the Hinds County Sheriff’s Department after an investigation by the state attorney general’s Insurance Integrity Enforcement Bureau, the AG’s office said. She is accused of giving misleading statements to Indemnity Insurance Co. of North America and claimed she was not receiving secondary income from a job she failed to report wh...