Covington County News

The Covington County Genealogical and Historical Society is trying to locate old photographs of the Williamsburg area, including pictures of families, stores, the courthouse and homes of Williamsburg in the 1800s.

The FastTrac convenience store in Collins on Fir Ave. is where two women claim they were violated by a seemingly innocent elderly man.

The man killed in Monday evenings two vehicle collision near the Jones and Covington county line has been identified as 61-year-old E. L. Sullivan of Taylorsville.

An unidentified black male was pronounced dead at the scene Monday when his riding lawn mower collided with a 2003 GMC pick-up just off Highway 84, West near the Jones and Covington county line.

Casey Little finds herself in a health care predicament. Little, 25, of Seminary needs health insurance to be able to afford treatments that could relieve the pain she suffers from fibromyalgia.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Three Mississippi communities have been selected to receive U.S. Department of Justice grants worth $202,580 to improve security at their public schools, Sen.

On Sunday afternoons in the late 1960s when church let out in rural Collins, Jacqueline Boykin's brothers often played baseball at a neighbor's house while she and her sisters became 'Sunday Girls.' It was a routine established by her mother, who spent Sundays teaching her daughters that they were intelligent, powerful, divine beings with a ...

The Covington County Genealogical and Historical Society will meet at 10 a.m. Sept.

Mr. Haughy Wallace, of Petal, dropped by this past week with a little story about a chicken snake of years ago.

The Mississippi State Department of Health is issuing a Boil-Water Alert for customers who receive their drinking water from the Town of Mount Olive water supply located in Covington County.

Mr. Haughy Wallace, of Petal, dropped by this past week with a little story about a chicken snake of years ago.

The public is invited to Covington County Genealogical & Historical Society's annual Genealogy Fair from 10 a.m.-noon Saturday at the Seminary Depot.

Recent rains have improved the condition of row crops in Mississippi and farmers will soon begin harvesting corn when fields dry out.

The 32 contestants vying for the 2009 Miss Hospitality crown and scholarships competed in a different kind of competition Wednesday night.

In response to the controversy surrounding the recent and highly publicized deaths of Steve McNair and Michael Jackson there are a few things worth considering.

My 3rd great grandfather had a sister named Mary Stogner who married Pierce Terrell from Bladen county NC, Lumberton area.

Steve McNair, whose work ethic, tenacity and God-given talent carried him from rural Covington County to one yard shy of winning Super Bowl XXXIV in 2000, is coming home today for the last time.

Raindrops fell softly on Mount Olive High School's deserted football field Monday afternoon, almost one by one.

Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol troopers arrested two men Tuesday after two troopers were nearly hit when a car sped through a driver's license checkpoint in Covington County.

Services are 10 a.m. Wednesday at Billy King Colonial Chapel Funeral Home in Collins for Henry Donald Stewart, 74, of Collins, who died June 14, 2009, at Covington County Nursing Center in Collins.