Jackson County News

A jury has found former Jackson County Board of Supervisors member Frank Leach guilty of disorderly conduct in connection with an incident two years ago involving an Ocean Springs police officer.

Gov. Haley Barbour's attempt Thursday to explain the early release of a Jackson County man who murdered his ex-wife failed to satisfy questions from her family members, lawmakers, law enforcement officials and ...

A jury has found former Jackson County Board of Supervisors member Frank Leach guilty of disorderly conduct in connection with an incident two years ago involving an Ocean Springs police officer.

Testimony began Tuesday for former supervisor Frank Leach's appeal of a disorderly conduct conviction stemming from an incident with Ocean Springs police two years ago.

Iva Bevill, a manager at Brown's Trailer Park in Gautier, said Tuesday that Rodney Lasseigne, a suspect in his mother's beating death, had acted in an odd manner last week.

The search continues for the man authorities believe may have murdered his mother.

A 68-year-old woman found dead in her mobile home on Browns Road Monday morning was the victim of a homicide, Jackson County Coroner Vicki Broadus confirmed.

The July trial term in Jackson County Circuit Court officially opens Monday with jury selection for the murder trial of Nathaniel Coleman, accused of killing two people in Moss Point.

Jackson County supervisors made decisions Monday that nixed an RV park for industrial workers in Orange Grove, stopped a high-end apartment complex on Seaman Road in Latimer and allowed a Katrina cottage as a ...

Is 19 years in prison sufficient punishment for killing another human being? Apparently, at least in one case, Governor Barbour thinks so.

Gov. Haley Barbour issued an order Thursday paving the way for the early release of a Jackson County native convicted in the 1989 shotgun-slaying of his ex-wife. Michael David Graham was 35 when he shot ...

The Singing River Hospital System and its two hospitals added nearly $290 million to Jackson County's economy in 2007, a study found.

A Jackson County woman lost just about everything she owned Tuesday morning when a fire ripped through her home.

Two men were arrested and charged with making methamphetamine within a school zone at the Sundown Motel in Ocean Springs.

State health officials have confirmed the ninth human case of the West Nile virus in Mississippi.

Jackson County supervisors Monday voted to allow Mississippi cottages to remain in place in the county permanently as long as the zoning allows them and they are at the correct elevation.

Robert Spivacke lives by the motto: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. The Jackson County man believes simple waste management can benefit the environment in so many ways.

A federal appeals court should throw out Paul E. Woodward's death sentence because prosecutors plotted to keep blacks off a Jackson County jury, according to Woodward's attorneys.

A Pascagoula man was arrested on outstanding charges Thursday when his young son told Pascagoula police officers "my daddy is hiding in the closet," authorities said Friday.

Sentencing for a Pascagoula man who pleaded guilty to the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl was delayed Friday by Circuit Court Judge Dale Harkey.