Lucedale News

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.

LUCEDALE Sen. Roger Wicker, during a speech in Lucedale on Thursday, decried health care legislation, which he sees as a government takeover of one-sixth of the economy, and growing federal deficits.

George and Lamar counties in south Mississippi are receiving millions of federal dollars to build community safe rooms where people can seek temporary shelter from disasters.

'We've gone from a very small, local family operation to one that has made a place in a very specialized market and is still growing.

LUCEDALE - George County officials have agreed on May 8 as the date for a celebration of the county's 100th birthday.

Circuit Judge Kathy King-Jackson declared a mistrial in the murder case of Jennifer Lisa Benton on Thursday night, after the jury told the judge they were hopelessly deadlocked.

Murder suspect Jennifer Benton picked up a .9-mm handgun used to kill her husband the same day she's accused of shooting him to death in May 2005, a Lucedale pawn shop employee said Wednesday.

Lawyers for Jennifer Lisa Benton said in opening arguments Tuesday that she was acting in self-defense when she fatally shot husband James M. Benton four years ago.

Two Moss Point residents are on trial for murder in separate cases this week in Jackson County Circuit Court, with the first beginning Monday afternoon with jury selection.

OAK GROVE PUBLIC LIBRARY is in the process of building an amphitheater on the library grounds.

YOU MAY HAVE SEEN Friday's edition of the Hattiesburg American which reported on two murder trials involving two separate incidents.

A Lucedale teenager accused in three murders has been convicted of a lesser charge of accessory after the fact.

After a long day of testimony, a jury of nine women and three men are still hearing the prosecution's side of the case in the murder trial of Deon C. McCants.

A Lucedale teen's murder trial began Tuesday morning in George County. Deon McCants is charged with the 2008 murders of Meleah Griffith and Dominique Johnson.

Martin is a good citizen If there's anyone who deserves a good citizenship award, it's George Martin.

Lauderdale County is the latest county to join the Regional Railroad Authority of East Mississippi.