Brandon News

After months of bickering over the budget, Mississippi lawmakers spent less than six hours in special session Friday to approve the final details of the state's $6 billion spending plan.

Forget elaborate vacation plans, a relaxing day at the Ross Barnett Reservoir was on the agenda for hundreds of metro area families.

A woman is now in custody in connection with a Jackson County murder. U.S. marshals and the Rankin County Sheriff's Department arrested Nancy Scott in Brandon and charged her with capital murder.

Joe M. Turner, now based in Atlanta, will present Shenanigans on July 17-18, an interactive sleight-of-hands and mental magic show at the Black Rose Theater.

One person was killed in a traffic crash Sunday morning on State Road 87 at Yellow River Bridge.

What convinced you to try a first novel? I have had many life experiences that seem to be worthy of a good story.

Hoping to boost sales, automakers have put some of their best incentive packages on the table to clear dealer lots.

BRANDON, Miss. - A burn center will open in Brandon on Monday, providing the state its first inpatient burn-treatment facility in four years.

Burn center coming to Mississippi Tomorrow there will be a press conference at the Crossgates River Oaks Hospital in Brandon, MS at 10:30 AM.

Brandon firefighters said a house near the Ross Barnett Reservoir that was up for sale caught fire on Tuesday.

A thriving bedroom community, Rankin's county seat offers good schools, convenient shopping and dining and a community theater.

The Black Rose Theatre Company announces auditions for its annual Night of One Acts, set for June 29-30 at 7 p.m. Auditions will take place at Black Rose Theatre, 103 Black St.

Rankin leaders officially have approved Pelahatchie as the future home of a juvenile justice center, and construction is set to begin later this year.

A new north-south corridor between Flowood and Brandon is gaining ground as funding is piling in to pay for the second phase of the project, officials say.

The body of a 43-year-old woman was found floating in a backyard pool on Sunday, Brandon police said.

A Brandon woman drowns in her home swimming pool. Just after 4:00 Sunday afternoon, Brandon police, AMR and Brandon Fire were called out to an apparent drowning.

K.R. Rao came from India to America, where he has prospered as a nuclear engineer, worshiped at a local Hindu temple, retired and built in his backyard a restful park of murmuring fountains and statues of Hindu gods.

Three local men are in jail today after they were arrested this week on weapons theft charges by the Columbus Police Department.

The Outlaws race at the Twin City Drawgway started with track surface temperature over 150 degrees, and the racing action was just as hot.

When Kim Anderson of Brandon looks for a bargain, she heads to consignment boutiques, resale shops and thrift stores.