Brooklyn News

JACKSON - Jervis Mims of Hattiesburg was recently inducted into the Mississippi Housing Hall of Fame, the highest honor given by the Home Builders Association of Mississippi.

Hank Bounds never thought he'd attend college when he was growing up on a farm near Brooklyn, Miss.

About 300 high school dropouts changed that description of themselves during the 2008-09 academic year when they received GED certificates through the adult education division at Pearl River Community College.

The newly organized Community Outreach for Dixie, McLaurin, Brooklyn, Carnes and Camp Dantzler met for the second time on May 26.

Baxterville School Nurse Tina Anderson doesn't consider herself a hero. Still, her efforts to help save the life of the school's custodian last month are nothing short of heroic.

BROOKLYN - Forrest County Agricultural High School will cut costs next year by parking the school's driver's education program, said Superintendent Elizabeth Yankay.

Mr. and Mrs. Steve Anderson of Benton and Mr. Joe Anderson of Lumberton announce the engagement of their daughter, Kayla Anderson, to Kyle Sullivan, son of Mr.

This edition of The Daily Distraction goes out to my la il bro Holden . He is 19 today and can finally not dance at indie-rock concerts.

ELLISVILLE - The Jones County Junior College theater department will be taking its audience to the enchanted world of Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" in the April 3-5 production.

The Black Creek in McLaurin crested Sunday morning at 26 feet, but not before trapped homeowners near Churchill Drive had been rescued by emergency crews.

No remains were discovered this afternoon when the Forrest County Sheriff's Department and Brooklyn-Carnes Volunteer Fire Department responded to 911 call of a body floating in Black Creek near the Carnes community.

On Feb. 22, an animal which was very dear to me disappeared. It was a young yellow American pit male dog.

At least two people believed to be teenaged girls were seriously injured this afternoon in a wreck involving an 18-wheeler hauling fuel and a car.

LUMBERTON - BRIAN FORD of Brooklyn was approved as the new head football coach by the Lumberton school board Monday night at its regular meeting.

Students at Forrest County Agricultural High School will have to pay for driver's ed next year _ and will have to take it as summer school.

PURVIS - A quartet of cases lined up for the 15th Circuit Court in Lamar County have one thing in common: homicide.

At the American Legion post on Klein Road on Sunday, musicians from around the region gathered as they do once a month for the Mississippi Coast Jazz Society's dance.

A cash reward is being offered by Metro Crime Stoppers for information about the theft of a recreational vehicle stolen in Brooklyn on Dec.

JACKSON - The city of Jackson is trying to recoup almost $240,000 in bad checks from Brooklyn-based Durham Auctions Inc.

The school board for the Forrest County School District voted Wednesday to advertise the sale of timber from two plots of 16th Section land during a special-called meeting at the district office.