Lucedale News

LUCEDALE, Miss. - George County Sheriff's deputies are investigating the drowning death of a 10-month-old in the Howell community.

Hallstrom Drive, Denise Dean reported a fraudulent use of her identification. Dec. 28 613, Henesy Munee reported the theft of an air condition unit form her rental property.

A frosty morning means good business for Tinker Steede. Steede, 59, is carrying on a generations-old family tradition of squeezing sugar cane and boiling the juice into syrup.

Frosty autumn mornings mark the beginning of what may be the sweetest season in South Mississippi.

A 53-year-old Lucedale man died after he pulled in front of an oncoming 18-wheeler in George County.

A Lucedale man died in a traffic accident Tuesday night, one day before his 54th birthday, according to the Mississippi Highway Patrol.

The city of Lucedale will build a sidewalk along Miss. 63 from Cowart Street to the Walmart with a $100,000 Mississippi Development Authority grant, said Mayor Doug Lee.

A capital murder suspect in the October death of a Moss Point, Miss., man was returned to Jackson County on Monday afternoon, authorities said.

Moss Point police returned from Tampa on Monday with capital murder suspect Myron Johnson, one of three men accused in the fatal shooting of 35-year-old Jermaine Kelly.

More than 365 days have passed since all public buildings in the City of Laurel became smoke-free. City officials and business leaders are as divided on the issue now as they were a year ago.

Mr. and Mrs. Daryl Magee of Warrensburg, MO, announce the engagement of their daughter, Courtney Elise Magee, to Jerry Christopher Rohr, son of Douglas and Nancy Rohr of Hattiesburg.

Authorities in Mobile Thursday arrested a suspect in the October slaying of a man in Moss Point, a spokesman for the FBI said.

Submitted by Elaine CoxThe Duchess de Chaumont Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution has announced its Good Citizens Award winners for the 2009-10 school year.

After he joined the military in the early 1940s, A.C. Hillman and his fellow Marines learned they were being moved to Pearl Harbor.

After almost two months on the run, a man wanted for a Moss Point murder has been arrested.

PETAL - Services are 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at Macedonia Baptist Church in Petal for Rebecca Ann Gatlin, 67, of Petal, who died Nov.

This week in Jackson County, two women were arrested for stealing more than $3,200 worth of items at the Moss Point Cracker Barrel.

A chartered Boeing 767 carrying more than 200 very happy people, touched down at Gulfport's Air National Guard base Monday afternoon.

NATCHEZ a ' A Lucedale man received serious injuries Sunday afternoon when the bike he was riding was struck by a truck hauling a trailer on Mississippi 555.

With some $450 billion on the line, accurate census counts count. Organizations, communities and volunteers are joining forces to promote the 2010 census count using innovative measures and lots of legwork to ready residents for the population survey.