Greenwood News

Apricot season is between May and August so it is time to enjoy these delightful orange colored fruits.

Leflore County Assistant District Attorney Tim Jones questions a witness during a preliminary hearing for Dr.Arnold Smith Jr.

The children of Dr. Arnold Smith Jr., Jennifer Welch , Victoria Smith and Kimie Smith, all of Jackson, react after a Leflore / Rogelio V. Solis/The Associated Press A law enforcement officer walks to a car outside Dr.

Betty Everett sang gospel growing up in Greenwood, MS, before relocating to Chicago and moving into secular music.

A small study raises more concern about the long-term consequences of the traumatic brain injuries suffered by thousands of soldiers.

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Miami-Dade's Civil Air Patrol squadrons have expanded to include new recruits in the North Miami-Dade area.

The last time the public saw Dr. Arnold Smith, the shackled physician was being yanked out of a courtroom after arguing with a judge two weeks ago.

GREENWOOD, Miss. -- Rainfall earlier this week was a welcome sign for Leflore County farmers, said County Extension Agent Jerry Singleton.

The bizarre story here of the alleged plot to kill politically connected attorney Lee Abraham has been the talk of this Delta town of about 15,000 since the shootout at his office last weekend that left one man dead and others wounded.

The first woman to command the Army's drill sergeant training took legal action Monday to reclaim her job, alleging she was improperly suspended last year because of sexism and racism and demanding that two of her superiors be investigated for abuse of their authority.

Holcomb Lions Club members Betty Jo Morrison, Sandra Strickland; Frances Cummins, life-long Holcomb resident Margaret Griffin, Margaret Corder; Wyomman Reeves, Lions Club president James Cummins and Wayne Corder have been working to prepare for the Doodlebug Festival.

Cordarious Robinson, 22, of 505 Kinney St., was charged with conspiracy to commit murder and possession of a firearm by a felon.

Carrying signs and chanting, "I am Lacy; I am Byrd," protesters marched to the Leflore County Courthouse on Tuesday evening in support of the two men shot Saturday night at Lee Abraham's law office.

JACKSON, Miss. -- It wasn't a secret that Dr. Ralph Arnold Smith Jr. was still angry at the attorney who represented his ex-wife during their divorce in the mid-1990s. Now authorities in the small Mississippi Delta town of Greenwood are investigating whether the well-known oncologist was so filled with rage that he hired men to kill the lawyer.