Meadville News

Myron Wayne "Jack" Seale of Natchez was a notorious Klansman implicated along with his brother and father for the Franklin County, Miss., murders of two black teenagers in 1964 and the 1965 murder of a fellow Klansman for allegedly informing to the FBI.

From Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi, Harry Maclean recounts the murder case against Klansman James Ford Seale in The Past is Never Dead.

Officials say the Veterans Affairs Meadville Clinic in Franklin County is scheduled to close its doors on Nov.

Veterans receiving health care services in Meadville will soon have to travel to Natchez or Jackson for services, officials said.

SOUTH MISSISSIPPI a ' Construction is under way on three segments of U.S. Highway 84 throughout the state, according to the Mississippi Department of Transportation.

Officials say the biggest birthday party in Franklin County history has been delayed until next year to make sure that everything planned for the event is prepared.

MEADVILLE a ' A Meadville woman died Saturday in a car crash on U.S. 84 in Franklin County.

Franklin County Memorial Hospital has rehired some of its workers laid off in June and officials say the facility is back on solid ground financially.

A Franklin County sheriff's deputy has been arrested. Lincoln County Sheriff Steve Rushing says 38-year-old Bryan A. Emfinger of Meadville was charged with computerized luring of a person under 18 for sexual purposes.