West Point News

Aeris Williams out of West Point, Miss., was non-committal on his favorites but it is obvious that a handful of schools are standing out out at the current time of his recruitment.

Former University of Alabama chancellor and Mississippi State University president Malcolm Portera begins work this month to ensure that locals get jobs at a tire plant being built in West Point.

The Commercial Dispatch says Portera's new role will be to make sure that jobs at the Yokohama Tire Corporation are filled predominantly by people living in area.

The Mississippi Development Authority is focusing its summer contractor series on informing and preparing small businesses and contractors for opportunities that relate to the Yokohama Tire Corp. facility to be built in West Point.

West Point cadets are in Mississippi Tuesday and Wednesday to learn about the civil rights movement.

Joe Max Higgins, CEO of the Golden Triangle Development Link, said the economic development organization will continue to pursue big projects.

Best-selling Civil War novelist Jeff Shaara says the audience he wants to reach the most are the ones that come to him often after reading his books saying, "I didn't know that." With its railroads and location on the bluffs of the Mississippi River, the town of Vicksburg, Mississippi was a vitally important fortress city for the Confederate Army ... (more)

Shortly after 7 p.m. Thursday night, West Point police officers were dispatched to a residence in the Seitz subdivision in reference to a shooting.

These support groups are set to meet in the next two weeks: ACTS - Alcohol Chemical Treatment Series - is a curriculum-based self-help, recovery and educational program for anyone wanting to recover from alcohol or drugs, and their families.

There are more than 1,300 soldiers from West Point who have either been killed in the line of duty for their country or have passed on after serving honorably in the Armed Forces.

A federal judge won't dismiss a lawsuit that argues the city of West Point, Mississippi and a local nightclub are liable for injuries to an underage driver, who authorities say was driving while intoxicated after drinking at the club.

A June 17 trial start looms in federal court to determine if the city of West Point and a local nightclub are at fault in the vehicular injury of a drunken underage driver.

Homemade Jamz is almost entirely grown up, and its fourth album, "Mississippi Hill Country," shows it.

Barring a challenge from Ward 3 incumbent Charles Collins, Jimmy Clark is the new representative for the ward, which was the only one that required a runoff after the May 7 municipal elections.

The city of West Point is asking a federal judge to preclude West Point resident Natalie Stafford from testifying about events that happened at Old Waverly, which Stafford says led to her son's automobile accident in 2010.

WEST POINT - A West Point alderman is suing in federal court to block his loss in a primary election.