Kemper County News

The Sierra Club filed a motion Wednesday with the Mississippi Supreme Court asking that information about the Kemper County Power Plant be added to the public record.

A Kemper County man is being accused in a rape and aggravated assault. Melvin Levan Rush is charged with domestic violence, aggravated assault and rape.

Two women, both charged in the kidnapping of a 6-year-old child in Kemper County, appeared Wednesday at a detention hearing in Jackson.

A mother and daughter, both suspects in the kidnapping of a 6-year-old child in Kemper County Apr. 30, appeared in federal court Wednesday afternoon.

The State Games of Mississippi is underway, and that means thousands of visitors are pouring into Meridian and surrounding areas.

Your May 30 editorial "Mississippi Clean Coal Slaw" misses key points about the campaign against Mississippi Power's Kemper County coal plant.

Huggins replaces Tommy Anderson, the former vice president of generation development, who resigned in the wake of more than $1 billion of cost overruns at the Kemper County plant.

Overcrowding at the Lauderdale County Detention Facility is not necessarily a new problem, but it's one that got a bit too out of hand recently.

Country music star Jimmie Rodgers will be celebrated this weekend at the annual Mississippi Picnic in New York City, where a musician will play songs recently recorded using a guitar once owned by Rodgers.

Like Anderson, Huggins will oversee the development and construction of the utility's Kemper County coal plant.

University of Alabama basketball forward Devonta Pollard early on played a role in the April 30 kidnapping of a Kemper County elementary-schooler that Pollard's mother orchestrated, prosecutors allege.

Here is all one needs to know about the worldwide influence of the late Jimmie Rodgers, the singing brakeman from Meridian who is considered the Father of Country Music: His 1933 tune "Waiting For A Train" inspired George Harrison of the Beatles to start playing guitar.

Services affiliate get the utility's troubled Kemper County integrated gasification combined-cycle project back on track.

Three more people have been charged in connection with the kidnapping of Jashayla Hopson in Kemper County, including Univ.

Public Service Commissioner Brandon Presley on Monday blasted Mississippi Power's embattled and over-budget Kemper County coal plant, but noted the $4.3 billion project is "past the point of no return" and "too big to fail."

Sollie told the board of supervisors Monday that over the past few weeks Kemper County Sheriff James Moore has agreed to take some of the extra inmates off his hands.

As your readers know, our Public Service Commission recently granted Mississippi Power a rate increase to help pay for the power plant in Kemper County.

Does anyone know how to use the ramps on I-10? In Gulfport traffic merging into U.S. 49 is to yield and it never does.

WLOX News first reported Monday that the Mississippi Public Service Commission is reviewing Mississippi Power's financial records for 2012, after learning the company withheld information about the Kemper County power plant.

The head of Southern Co. says no one is happy with cost overruns at a Mississippi power plant, but he defends the project as a long-term investment.