Shaw News

Paul and Katherine Lee of Melbourne will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary with a reception from 3 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Nov.

Blues, broadcasting, baskets, paintings and pupils all factor into the 2010 recipients of the Governor's Awards for Excellence in the Arts, just announced by the Mississippi Arts Commission.

Heavy rain led to numerous flash flood warnings with extensive flash flooding reported in some areas.

Another Mississippi soldier has been killed while serving overseas -- this time in the Philippines.

Sgt. 1st Class Christopher D. Shaw, a Mississippi native, was killed in the Philippines this week when a bomb struck the vehicle carrying him and another soldier for the U.S. Army Special Forces.

SHAW, Miss. - For the first time since 1997, residents of Shaw can expect a tax increase of five mills for city and property taxes.

A part-time University of Southern Mississippi student's death has been ruled as a likely drowning, authorities say.

Authorities Sunday arrested Kenneth Luther Brown, 80, of Ocean Springs, in connection with a hit and run accident earlier in the day on Cedar Lake Road in Biloxi.

You can go home again, especially if you have a mission. The Rev. Jason Coker, pastor of the Wilton Baptist Church, recently led a mission trip to his hometown of Shaw, Miss., which sits at ground zero of American rural poverty.

A 28-year veteran of the Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol is the new head of the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation.

One of the last living Delta blues performers took to the stage in Melfort on Sunday, Aug.

Downtown Picayune merchants enjoyed a boost to their businesses during the first ever Mississippi Sales Tax Holiday, July 31 - Aug.

Today one lucky winner will get the keys to the newly completed 2009 Batson Hospital MiracleHome located in Madison's Providence subdivision.

Six Contracts Improve, Expand Health Care Services WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki announced six contracts have been awarded worth $153.7 million to build new health care facilities and expand existing services that provide care to Veterans in the Biloxi, Miss., area.

Notes, quotes and an opinion or two while thanking high heavens that sports writers don't do two-a-days: Nearly a week after he didn't show for Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremonies, Hugh Green issued a statement through Jackson attorney Wayne Ferrell.

Notes, quotes and an opinion or two while thanking high heavens that sports writers don't do two-a-days: Nearly a week after he didn't show for Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremonies, Hugh Green issued a statement through Jackson attorney Wayne Ferrell.

The state Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld the life sentence of Jeffrey Jackson, who was convicted of murder in the shooting death of a Delta State student at a Shaw nightclub in 2003.

Mississippi shoppers will enjoy a statewide sales tax holiday, July 31-Aug. 1, which should provide some relief to those shoppers who have waited to do a little last minute back to school shopping.

An Oxford woman has been sentenced to six years in prison in a DUI-related traffic accident in 2008 in which a Mississippi Valley State University professor was killed.

PICAYUNE - Top school administrators in Pearl River County are studying better ways to improve teaching and learning through a program partially funded by the Lower Pearl River Valley Foundation.