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The Holmes County Sheriffa TMs Department has charged a 17-year-old in connection with a double shooting, officials said.

One man is dead after a double shooting in Holmes County Tuesday. Twenty-eight-year-old Justin Moss was killed and his brother, 19-year-old Guage Moss was treated and released from the Holmes County Hospital in Lexington.

The Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency in Jackson has forward information about the rain damage to Mississippi crops to Washington to be used in helping determine whether the President will declare Mississippi as a crop disaster area.

Durant Police are trying to determine whether Monday's deadly shooting outside a Family Dollar is related to a homicide in August.

Police in Durant hope DNA sent to the state crime lab will help them solve Monday's deadly shooting.

Durant Police are interviewing people in connection with the shooting death of a 29-year-old Goodman man tonight.

DURANT 33 MONTGOMERY CO. 10 The Durant Tigers moved closer to clinching a berth in the State 1A playoffs with a 33-10 drubbing of Greenwood last Friday night.

Barry Love, 23, of Kosciusko, will go to trial Feb. 1 for the November shooting at Hill Brothers Logging Shop on Highway 19 North, according to court documents.

On September 22, a group of interested residents of Lexington met at the Lexington Public Library to reorganize, and reactivate, the "Friends of the Lexington Public Library." A new board was elected with the following officers: Marsha Jordan, president; Gwen Buckley, vice-president; joyce lynn Richmond, secretary; and Leebeth Gilmore, treasurer.

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The 30th annual Big Black River Festival will be held Saturday, Sept. 12, from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. along the Main Street of the Town of West.

An internationally noted professor and author will speak about the importance of geographical knowledge during a lecture on the eighth anniversary of the Sept.

Two people have been arrested for allegedly tampering with medical records to get prescription drugs from a western Iowa hospital.

The H1N1 virus, now, closer to home. A confirmed case of the virus in an elementary school student in the Durant Public School District.

A Durant man will serve 10 years in the care of the Mississippi Department of Corrections for his role in the shooting at the Hill Brothers Logging Shop on Highway 19.

A Durant man will serve 10 years in the care of the Mississippi Department of Corrections for his role in the shooting at the Hill Brothers Logging Shop on Highway 19.

Holmes County Sheriff Willie March reported that an altercation at the Barnyard Club on Bowling Green Road between Lexington and Durant escalated into a shooting at approximately 1:00 - 1:30 a. Emma Jordan Cotten fund set up at M&F The Emma Jordan Cotten Fund has been set up for the 4-year-old daughter of Jeffrey and Sarah Cotten of West at M&F ...

Holmes County authorities are searching for a man suspected of killing another outside a night club early Sunday morning.

A Holmes County man was gunned down outside a night club just north of Durant. It happened around 1:30 Sunday morning at the Barnyard Night Club on Bowling Green Road.

Authorities have charged a Durant man suspected of setting fires in Holmes County that caused $460,000 in property damage with six counts of arson, the state fire marshal's office said today.