Jefferson Davis County News

Some education leaders this week said Gov. Haley Barbour's K-12 budget recommendations would be almost impossible to implement, especially in one year.

The Mississippi Court of Appeals has granted a retrial for Covington & Burling LLP client Cory Maye, who was convicted and sentenced to death for the 2001 shooting of a police officer that occurred during a narcotics task force search of Mr.

About 1,000 customers of West Lamar Water Association Inc., in three Pine Belt counties are under a 'boil water' notice because of a line break that caused a loss of pressure in the system.

The Mississippi Court of Appeals has ordered a new trial for a Jefferson Davis County man who was convicted of fatally shooting a Prentiss police officer during a 2001 drug raid.

A Seminary man was killed Saturday evening in a fatal accident in Covington County.

Hundreds of people at a Jefferson Davis County race track watched as a man died after crashing his four-wheeler. Jefferson Davis Coroner Greg Blackwell told the Clarion-Ledger that 31-year-old Albert Wooten of Brandon was riding the all-terrain vehicle during a solo time trial Sunday at the Finishline Dragstrip west of Prentiss.

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Two men died in a two-vehicle accident on Mississippi 42, just east of Bassfield.

When Diane Applewhite's son was murdered in Bassfield in 2000, she didn't think she would ever recuperate.

State Auditor Stacey Pickering says the Jefferson Davis County School District will repay over $1 million for misusing 16th Section land funds.

A lawsuit that began in 2007 has been brought to a resolution resulting in the Jefferson Davis County School District repaying more than $1 million following the misuse of sixteenth section land funds by the district.

A jury in Prentiss returned a guilty verdict Friday in the trial of Brandon Sullivan, 23, who was accused of killing his grandmother, Mary Lou Sullivan, on Dec.

While there may be some signs of economic recovery, economists say that unemployment will keep rising before any noticeable improvement will occur as the economy moves slowly out of recession.

COLUMBIA - Five Marion County residents were sentenced recently on a variety of charges by Circuit Judge R.I. Prichard III.

Leaders in Mississippi's most distressed school districts said Wednesday they don't expect millions of federal stimulus dollars will offset all of the budget cuts they must make this fall, mostly because the funds have spending requirements that may not allow it.

Mississippi schools began trying to shave their budgets Thursday after Gov. Haley Barbour announced $172 million in cuts to the state's $6 billion budget - most falling on education, which makes up the majority of the budget.

Haley Stewart sat contemplating questions she had been asked by Miss Hospitality judges and writing in blue ink in a notebook.

A woman accused of murdering an elderly Jefferson Davis County couple made her initial appearance in court Tuesday.

An Escatawpa man, one of more than 200 violent offenders arrested in a statewide crime sweep, has been booked with murder in the April slaying of an elderly Jefferson Davis County couple, the sheriff's office said.

Local law enforcement agencies say they lack both the space and expertise to store DNA evidence that a new state law requires them to preserve.