Aberdeen News

BOONEVILLE, Miss. a ' A grade, drain and bridge project for the U.S. Highway 30 bypass in Booneville is nearing completion, according to officials with the Mississippi Department of Transportation.

A 23-year-old Monroe County man Monday was arrested and charged with a June 26 double shooting on Old Columbus Road in Aberdeen.

Author/performer Frank Blocker 's highly acclaimed and multi-nominated "Southern Gothic Novel" The Aberdeen, Mississippi Sex-Slave Incident will play its last performance at the Stage Left Studio Theatre Wednesday, June 24th.

A 21-year-old Aberdeen woman was sentenced to three years probation today after she pleaded guilty to being part of a conspiracy that allegedly defrauded the Golden Triangle Crime Stoppers out of $18,000. Shawanda Holliday in February pleaded guilty to one county of conspiracy to defraud the organization.

Before it was over, eight people, including several prisoners, a janitor and a public works employee were facing federal charges related to the alleged conspiracy to steal five machine guns, 11 pistols and 90 pounds of marijuana from the Greenwood Police Department.

A prison inmate accused of conspiring to steal guns from a Mississippi police department wants to block federal prosecutors from using recorded conversations and other information to convince a jury the weapons were sold in Chicago.

The state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock as a state judge wrongfully dismissed an automobile-negligence suit filed in Monroe County against an Alabama state trooper without letting a jury hear the case.

Federal prosecutors have asked a judge for leniency for two men who helped in the investigation of a theft ring.

Dispatch offices will be closed Monday for Memorial Day, but the circulation department will take customer service phone calls from 7-10 a.m. The following is a schedule of area closings: Both Columbus and Lowndes County school offices will be closed, as will the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library, the Columbus-Lowndes Development Link and the U.S.

Tupelo day care operator Floristine Gladney has pleaded not guilty to nine counts of illegally using federal literacy program funds to pay some of her employees.

A volunteer diver with the Itawamba County dive team died while searching for the body of a teenager in the Buttahatchie River.

Thursday's announcement from Chrysler that it will eliminate 789 dealerships soon will have an impact on a longtime local company.

The Kosciusko High School golf team posted a 322 during the first day of the MHSAA Class 4A State Golf tournament in Amory on Tuesday, to finish the first 18 holes in third place in the 18-team event.

Monroe County will lose one of its two General Motors' dealerships as the struggling automaker and its dealers struggle with the weak economy.

The following felony arrests were reported by the Lowndes County Sheriff's Office: Eli Orr III, 25, of 1018 Shady St.

The Monroe County Sheriff's Office released the following felony arrests reports: Robert Louis Gathings, 50, of 307 B Franklin Avenue in Aberdeen, was arrested by the MCSO April 20 on one count of felony failing to register as a sex offender.

By GWEN SISSON Starkville Daily News Terry Camp said if it wasn't for landing in a haystack, he would not be sharing the story of his father's role in Starkville's aviation history.

A former owner and president of a Mississippi biodiesel manufacturing company and an imprisoned lawyer are accused of defrauding the U.S. Department of Agriculture out of $2.8 million by filing false claims for more than two years.

Hundreds of National Guardsmen from North Mississippi's Alpha Battery are shipping out to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the coming weeks and many were in Columbus with their families Saturday.

With high chances of thunderstorms for most of the weekend in the forecast, flood warnings have been issued for a couple of Northeast Mississippi areas.