Amite County News

LIBERTY, Miss. - In Carol Funchess' garden, the flowers fly. That's because it's a butterfly garden-the flying blossoms are actually butterflies.

An Amite County supervisor says there were no bridge railings at the site of a fatal accident because the rails had been stolen.

Authorities say a 20-year-old college student died Tuesday after the vehicle she was riding in veered off an Amite River bridge.

Authorities say a 20-year-old college student died Tuesday after the vehicle she was riding in veered off an Amite River bridge.

Thirty-two Miss Hospitality contestants showed a roaring crowd of 375 that diamonds are a girl's best friend in the opening number of the 60th annual Mississippi Miss Hospitality Pageant on Friday night at Hattiesburg's Saenger Theater.

An Amite County man was being held on murder charges Friday in the shooting death of his father.

More than three months after Liberty Elementary School was heavily damaged by high winds during a violent storm, Amite County school officials are trying to get it repaired.

A 45-year-old woman was struck and killed while walking down Thompson Road near Liberty.

James Berry III has garnered so many rodeo trophies in his young life, his family doesn't know where to put them all.

Amanda Jones, counsel to the governor, spoke about her political passion and the state's pressing budget issues Monday at the 62nd session of Magnolia Girls State.

RadarOnline.com has confirmed that Casey Aldridge, the father of Jamie Lynn-Spears' 8-month-old daughter, is in a Jackson, Mississippi hospital after a bad car wreck last night.

Hattie Pearl Nunnery and Melanie Hubbs will present information about the Amite County Bicentennial at the monthly meeting of the Natchez Historical Society at 7 p.m. on Tuesday.