Purvis News

A home on the 600 block of 1st Ave. in Purvis became fully engulfed in flames at approximately 9:30pm Monday.

The Hattiesburg American reports the new locations are in Purvis at Optimist Park, the Northeast Lamar Volunteer Fire Department on Weathersby Road and at the Ben Barrett Community Center in Lumberton.

Jason Dement from Purvis, Mississippi, was briefly detained in April at an airport near the Mediterranean coast because two pieces inside a bag of collected stones appeared to be artifacts.

It is easy to sit around and gripe about your elected officials, but this is your chance to have a say in how your city is governed.

The bride-elect is the granddaughter of Jake and Karen Keith of Purvis and Mary Lee Conerly of Sandy Hook.