Greenville News

The attorney general's office says Marguerite Wilson turned herself in to the Washington County Sheriff's Office June 11 following indictment by a local grand jury.

Greenville, Mississippi linebacker Gerri Green is one of the south's most athletic prospects.

GREENVILLE -- Washington County wants to organize local disaster-response teams that will be trained to respond either in their neighborhood or workplace if a disaster strikes.

Michael Maddox, 21, an escaped state inmate being held in Washington County was recaptured by authorities near Memorial Drive on Friday afternoon.

Handgrabbing catfish is a Southern tradition, particularly in Mississippi, and one that Nate Craig of Brandon never misses.

Cox tells the Delta Democrat Times that the city is working with the Environmental Protection Agency and the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality to develop a plan to fix the system.

GREENVILLE - The Good Samaritan Health Center will be closing its doors by the end of the year or as soon as federal funds run out.

ABERDEEN -- A Greenville police officer is scheduled for trial on July 29 in federal court in Aberdeen on charges of accepting payments from a local nightclub owner in exchange for warning the businessman when state liquor law enforcers were in town.

The Mississippi Department of Transportation has received an $800,000 grant to put up historical markers and create road pull-offs.

Greenville, Mississippi, lies between New Orleans and Memphis, and so does the sound of Greenville native Eden Brent, a blues artist whose music combines Delta grit with Crescent City swing.

GREENVILLE -- Federal court records indicate a man intends to plead guilty in a child pornography case in Mississippi.

The Inoculation Project , founded in 2009 by hyperbolic pants explosion , is a group of Kossacks who gather weekly to combat the anti-science push in conservative America by providing direct funding to science and math projects in red state classrooms.

New Orleans resident and master storyteller Julia Reed offers a delightful look at the art of eating and drinking in her fourth book, "But Mama Always Put Vodka in Her Sangria! Adventures in Eating, Drinking, and Making Merry." As always, Reed adds Deep South flavor to this collection of essays about her culinary adventures from her hometown of ... (more)

Greenville City Council recently voted to hire Korey Bennett Adams for the manager position in the Water Department.

When it comes to schools and kids, progress might actually just involve a unified push from everyone in a community - no matter how hard it looks.