Yazoo City News

An approaching line of intense thunderstorms with a history of producing widespread wind damage has prompted the Storm Prediction Center to issue a severe thunderstorm watch for much of central Mississippi .

Former Jacksonville Jaguars receiver Jimmy Smith has begun serving a six-year prison term in Mississippi for drug possession and weapons charges, online state corrections records show.

Company spokesman Dave Miller says the wireless capability is available now in the southeastern portion of Greenville from Highway 1 to S. Raceway Road as well as in parts of downtown Yazoo City.

"Just Out of Reach" by Mississippi attorney Belinda Stevens tells the story of young love and dark secrets in the turbulent Sixties.

Come July, four Mississippi communities will lose almost $18 million in free labor.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Vicksburg District is accepting sealed bids from individuals or groups that are interested in leasing agricultural - grazing land in Yazoo County.

Sara Biddle, left, and Bridget Bumphis Lee have been at Traceway's Green Houses since the beginning.

This has been a big month for abortion rights. In North Dakota, where there is only one abortion clinic, a District Court judge voided a two-year-old set of state restrictions on the use of medications to induce first-trimester abortions.

Four counties will lose free inmate labor for clean up and other projects. "It will have a tremendous impact on the county and city," George County Sheriff Dean Howell said of the inmate work center closing in his county.

Four Mississippi jurists have been named fellows of the Mississippi Bar Foundation.

George County stands to lose $3.5 million annually in labor if the Mississippi Department of Corrections goes through with plans to close the George County Community Work Center, county Supervisor Kelly Wright said today.

It will close community work centers in Rosedale, Yazoo City, Fayette and Lucedale.