Utica News

A Hinds County bridge replacement is causing headaches for some Utica residents who complain that the work is long overdue for completion.

Hinds County Schools has been forced to change its bus routes because of a school bus driver strike.

Mississippi Sings! 2009 has announced its fall program. Mississippi Sings! is a program designed for Mississippi's school children .

Ayden Wolken knows some things a 3-year-old shouldn't have to know. Like the meaning of the terms 'carbs' and 'blood sugar,' and whether there's too much of them in his body and what to do about it.

Crystal Springs police have arrested a 23-year-old man in the shooting death of a store clerk.

An arrest is made in a six month old murder in Crystal Springs. Police say a Crime-Stoppers tip earlier this week led to the capture of Joemarrio Demon Evans of Utica.

Some Hinds county parents say new bus stops are putting their children's lives at risk.

Some Utica parents said on Wednesday that they're furious about changes that the Hinds County School District made to bus routes.

With four projects ready to be advertised, Hinds County officials believe they can make the use-it-or-lose-it deadline on more than $860,000 in state-issued rural bridge repair funds.

Hinds County no longer will put money in the Pearl River Basin Development District, and the agency says it won't last past 2011 without the funding.

Bolton Mayor Lawrence Butler is known by just about everyone in the town. The 69-year-old is opinionated and says he is determined to see the city of some 600 thrive.

A judge has found Jackson police partly to blame for a 2007 crash that killed an elderly woman and injured her two daughters when their vehicle was hit by another vehicle being pursued by police.

When asked, even Marshand Crisler and Harvey Johnson Jr. stumble over the answer.

A Raymond man was sentenced today to serve 20 years in prison for the Oct. 13, 2007 crash that severely injured a pregnant woman, killing her unborn child.