Mayersville News

A 2009 Chevy Volt driven by Stephanie E. Marshall, of Greenwood, was traveling south about 8:15 p.m. on Mississippi Highway 1 near Mayersville, when the car ran off the road to the left, authorities said.

Mississippi Highway Patrol spokesman Cpl. Odis Easterling tells WLBT TV 25-year-old Jeffrey L. Gibbs of Cary was ejected in that accident around 6:45 a.m. Sunday.

For those of you who are not familiar with " The Piney Woods Country Life School ," or "Piney Woods School," the institution is a co-ed independent historically African American boarding school, which was founded by the late Laurence Clifton Jones in Rankin County Mississippi in 1909.