Lafayette County News

The Three Rivers Solid Waste Authority is negotiating terms with the Canadian company Enerkem to build a new material-recycling facility at the Pontotoc landfill.

A man sentenced to death in the slaying of a father and son in Lafayette County in 2009 has filed an appeal with the Mississippi Supreme Court.

At precisely 10:15 a.m., today, Mississippians will join their neighbors in eight other states for the Great Central U.S. ShakeOut.

A Lafayette County judge has a wrongful death case on hold while he considers motions.

Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour and parole officials said Saturday that they didn't know a man was charged with DUI after a fatal wreck that happened between the time he applied for a pardon and the time Barbour granted it.

By Billy Davis and Emily Williams Two rival street gangs brought guns to a fight January 16 in Batesville that left one of their members, Jeremy Wright, shot on Vance Street, a police detective testified this week.

Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Ann H. Lamar will be the keynote speaker at the Third Circuit Drug Court graduation ceremony at 2 p.m. Feb.

The three candidate vying for the Ward 6 alderman seat met for a question-and-answer session with citizens Tuesday night at the Lafayette County & Oxford Public Library for an hour.

State transportation officials say road project in the Oxford area are still on the drawing board - they are just being drawn very slowly.

Oxford, Mississippi native, Clarion-Ledger Dandy Dozen selection, and big-bodied quarterback Jeremy Liggins committed to play football for LSU tonight.

In 2008, the Oxford Kiwanis Club made it a goal to eventually have at least one automated external defibrillator in every school in Oxford and Lafayette County.

David Williams will be retried July 31 in Lafayette County for the 2005 slaying of a University of Mississippi student.

The Lafayette County Literacy Council will be holding its annual Mardi Gras Bash this weekend at 8 p.m. Saturday at The Lyric Theatre in Oxford.

A scaled-down version of an expansion of the John Leslie Tennis Facility in Oxford will be presented to Lafayette County supervisors.

In the state of Mississippi and across the country, teachers must be certified in a certain specialization called an endorsement.

OXFORD, Miss. -- A Mississippi judge has denied bond to a Tennessee man, who is charged in the shooting death of Memphis teenager in a Christmas Day drive-by shooting in Marshall County.

The mother of a man who committed suicide at Lafayette County Detention Center more than three years ago is suing the county and several current and former officials.

After plans to spend $3 million to expand the John Leslie Tennis Facility from eight to 20 courts fizzled last year when the Lafayette County Board of Supervisors refused to join with the city of Oxford and University of Mississippi to fund it, a scaled-down version seems to have a better chance of moving forward. 

On behalf of Lafayette County Department Family and Childrens Services and the foster children within Lafayette County, we would like to express our humble gratitude to the Employees of G. E. Aviation in Batesville for the contribution that they provided in order to make the Christmas Wish List 2011 successful.

Mark Hubbard Allen, convicted of vehicular manslaughter in Oktibbeha County in 1996.