George County News

Ernest Lee has been named superintendent of the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman.

Tax Assessor/Collector Vince Carlisle presented the petitions, which reflect changes made to the tax rolls that would offer refunds on property taxes collected in error.

As the 2011-12 school year concludes, Moss Point School District has made grade strides in overcoming obstacles, and has been recognized as one of the top school districts by several organizations across the state of Mississippi.

Editor's note: Jackson County will celebrate its bicentennial on Dec. 18, 2012. Throughout this year, The Mississippi Press will republish a series of stories about the histories of our local communities.

George County and Lucedale city leaders are working through a long list of quality-of-life projects this year, and several tasks focus on the preservation of historic buildings around town.

Local and surrounding artists will turn downtown Lucedale into an artsy landscape during the first Art Walk, starting on Friday.

Sixth-grade SPIRIT students of George County have worked for months to get ready for the second annual School's Out ... Run for Summer Fun.

Howell said George County Narcotics agents, the Lucedale Police Department and the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics received a tip someone was cooking methamphetamine in the Agricola Community on Monday evening at approximately 5 p.m. The multi-agency effort resulted in the arrest of Crawley at a residence in the 200 block of Glenn Vincent Road.

NATCHEZ, Mississippi -- Christopher Lee Baxter was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole today after a jury found him guilty of capital murder for his role in the 2010 death of George County Sheriff Garry Welford .

A Lucedale man has been found guilty of capital murder in the 2010 death of George County Sheriff Garry Welford.

Baxter is accused of running over and killing George County Sheriff Garry Welford during a high-speed chase on July 21, 2010.

This office will cover Jackson and George counties, as well as Lawrence, Jefferson Davis, Covington, Jones, Wayne, Wilkinson, Amite, Pike, Walthall, Marion, Lamar, Forrest, Perry, Greene, Pearl River, Stone, Hancock and Harrison counties.

Day two of testimony in the capital murder trial of Christopher Baxter has resumed this morning with George County Sheriff's Deputy Bobby Daffin returning to the stand in the Adams County Courthouse.

A state judge Tuesday denied a defense motion for a mistrial at the capital murder trial of a man accused of running over a Mississippi sheriff.

George County investigators arrested two Lucedale men during a checkpoint when drugs and money were discovered in the men's vehicles.

The capital murder trial of a man accused of running over a Mississippi sheriff has begun with jury selection.

District 4 Supervisor Larry A. Havard has filed a lawsuit against the George County Board of Supervisors appealing the board's decision to adopt plan two of the county's redistricting plan.

Trial is scheduled Monday in Natchez for a man accused of running over and killing George County Sheriff Garry Welford in 2010.

Appeals from death row inmate Joseph Bishop Goff will not be heard while he is undergoing mental health treatment, the Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled.

Lee joined the Mississippi Department of Corrections as a correctional officer trainee in 1981 and worked his way up the ranks.