Baldwyn News

While most 10-year-old girls are thinking of frilly dresses or a cool frock for the summer temperatures, Abigail Proctor of Kosciusko, might be found wearing woolen trousers, long sleeve shirt with vest along with a woolen cap.

Brash Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford was indicted and jailed Friday on charges his international banking empire was really just a Ponzi scheme built on lies, bluster and bribery.

The first Toyota supplier to announce plans for a north Mississippi location has offered buyouts to its 16 employees in Baldwyn.

Three horses tied up and left in the middle of the Forrest County woods by their owner.

THE DEATH OF MISSISSIPPI STATE TROOPER STEVE HOOD in the line of duty tragically illustrates the ever-present dangers and risks required of law enforcement officers in many situations, including some in which no firearm is drawn or fired.

AN ARREST HAS BEEN MADE IN THE PURSUIT THAT KILLED A STATE TROOPER IN NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI.

A 25-year-old man from Baldwyn is facing felony fleeing and manslaughter charges in the Friday night chase that ended in the death of a veteran state trooper.

A veteran state trooper with the Mississippi Highway Patrol was killed Friday night during a car chase.

A Mississippi defendant in the Stanford Financial civil case is objecting to some property the court-appointed receiver was trying to sell in an effort to recoup money lost in an alleged investment fraud.

The court-appointed attorney in the Stanford Financial civil suit over an alleged massive investment fraud has asked a federal judge to allow the sale of more than 50 commercial and residential properties, including nearly 20 in Mississippi.

Layoffs, rising mortgages and a tight credit market have combined to push an increasing number of people over the financial edge into bankruptcy.

Stanford Financial's saga surrounding an alleged $8 billion Ponzi scheme has seen increased activity in recent weeks, once again putting the state and some of its residents front and center.

Submitted photo/SDN George E. Phillips, curator of paleontology at the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, stands next to a prehistoric marker at a fossil collecting site near Baldwyn.

BY LENA MITCHELL Daily Journal Corinth Bureau This month's Park Day 2009 will draw thousands of volunteers to the nation's Civil War sites to help the National Park Service with its annual cleanup effort.

BY GINNY MILLER Daily Journal TUPELO - Four Northeast Mississippi families are vying for a special honor from Le Bonheur Children's Medical Center.

The Lee County-based Coalition4Change will unveil a monument honoring the civil rights movement at 2 p.m. March 21 on the northeast corner of the county Courthouse lawn.

Laura Pendergest-Holt, who oversaw investments at Stanford Group Co. and is now accused of participating in an $8 billion fraud, had an unusual background for a top executive in the investment industry.

When Jason Green wanted his team of financial advisers to sell more of Stanford International Banka s certificates of deposit, he knew where to turn: Proverbs 13:11. a oeWealth from get-rich-quick schemes ...

Move over, John Grisham. Once again, the real news from a small town in Mississippi is better than fiction.

The pride of Baldwyn, Mississippi, was in handcuffs Friday, making a "perp walk" in a black pantsuit, accompanied by an FBI agent.