Bolton News

The economy may be in a slump, but all in all, retail activity in Clinton is holding its own.

DANCERS in Bolton are being urged to join two "Thriller" record attempts as a tribute to Michael Jackson.

HATTIESBURG Incident report - Responded to a commercial burglary at 8:22 a.m. Friday in the 5500 block of Mississippi 42.

The Hinds County Sheriff Department and the Bolton Police Department are searching for two armed masked gunmen who robbed two men, shooting one of them in the upper body.

Bolton authorities are searching for two masked armed robbers. The Hinds County Sheriff's department tells WLBT two masked men approached two men inside a car at the Chevron on Bolton-Brownsville Road early Thursday morning.

The news of the upcoming closure of the Belk store at Metrocenter Mall is awful .

In his recently published book Sultana: Surviving the Civil War, Prison, and the Worst Maritime Disaster in American History , author Alan Huffman gives a stunning wartime account of human endurance and adventure and an exploration of just how much the human body and mind can take.

Voters across the state will head to the polls today to select mayors, council members, aldermen - and in Flowood - whether to allow sales of liquor by the glass.

Bolton Mayor Lawrence Butler is known by just about everyone in the town. The 69-year-old is opinionated and says he is determined to see the city of some 600 thrive.

More than four years after beginning a renovation project, the John Bell Williams Airport in Bolton is moving forward with plans to add a large hangar, an addition designed to attract more customers and increase fuel sales.

If Sid Champion V had his druthers, he would be buried in the family graveyard with his great-great-grandparents, Sid and Matilda Champion.

Jay Trussell recounted his past life as a struggling drug addict with thanksgiving as he graduated from the Forrest-Perry county drug court Friday morning.

If Sid Champion had his druthers, he would like to be buried in the family graveyard with his great-great-grandparents, Sid and Matilda Champion, for Sid - who is the fifth of the family to have that name - said he is "a part of this land, and it is a part of me." He was standing near the family burial plot on the plantation known as Champion Hill ...

The fourth annual Miller Lite Crawfish Boil kicks off at 5 p.m. with musical talent taking the National Guard Stage at the Mississippi State Fairgrounds.

See page 6D. Studio 121 hosts the Special Passenger Party, celebrating the release of the Special Passenger Project CD.

The 146th anniversary of the battle will be commemorated May 16 with re-enactments, book-signings, a trek along the historic Jackson Road and the unveiling of a memorial marker.

Both McMillin and Schwartz serve on the Board of Directors for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Mississippi.

At least one metro-area Boys and Girls Club could see its doors closed this summer if the organization does not raise $200,000 by next week.

Alan Huffman, a one-time reporter for the Jackson Clarion-Ledger, will sign and talk about his latest work of nonfiction, "Sultana" , at 6 p.m. tonight.

Hinds County has high hopes for a multimillion-dollar road project slated to start construction as early as this fall and has asked the federal government for funding to help it along.