Lamar County News

Nick Welch said there still remains every intention of relocating Big Buck Sports, expanding on an 11-acre site further west along U.S. 98 in Lamar County.

Lamar and George counties are receiving millions of federal dollars to build community safe rooms where people can seek temporary shelter from disasters.

Next school year, Lamar County students will have a lot in common - mainly all wearing collared shirts with navy, black or khaki bottoms.

A mandatory dress code will take effect in August for Lamar County schools. Students will be required to wear collared shirts with navy, black or khaki bottoms.

November is National Adoption Month and Mississippi has hundreds of children waiting for loving adults to welcome them into their family.

Incumbent Pearl River County District 5 school board member Margie Creel will face off with challenger Twila Crabtree in a Pearl River County school board election on Tuesday.

Officials at one Pine Belt high school are considering guidelines for senior portraits after the superintendent of Copiah County schools recently refused to include a lesbian student's picture in the yearbook.

Lamar County received 27 computers last week donated for use by volunteer fire departments to take computer-based training classes.

The way that Lamar County Fire Coordinator George Stevens sees it, the better trained - and physically fit - the county's volunteer firefighters are, the better served the county's residents will be.

As few as 10 voters could decide the fate of liquor sales in an area of Lamar County recently annexed by the city.

With winter looming, Southern District Public Service Commissioner Leonard Bentz wants to spread the word about federal programs that could help folks stay out of the cold.

The seas have grown much calmer over the proposed zoning ordinance in Lamar County, and there appears to be much smoother sailing ahead for the new regulations that are expected to take effect after the first of the year.

Chris Buckhalter, who had become an inspirational speaker since being paroled in 2008 after pleading guilty to manslaughter in 1999, was arrested Thursday in Lamar County on a sexual battery charge.

Lamar County's North Lake Serene is on its way back. Repairs have been completed on a broken valve that controlled the flow of water in the lake, and the gates at the south end of the lake were closed Friday morning.

The Lamar County Sheriff's Office is searching for an elderly man with Alzheimer's. Sheriff Danny Rigel says Lonnie McMahon, 83, was last seen Saturday in the Purvis area.

Sixteen-year-old Destiny Pinder had a reputation of never smiling, following directions, completing assignments or listening to authority figures and always using vulgarities to express anger.

A certain resignation seemed to resonate with the 60 or so who had gathered Oct.

Next month, residents in Lamar and Forrest counties will be able to dispose of household hazardous waste not picked up during normal garbage/trash collections.

A Hattiesburg Public Schools employee charged with indecent exposure pleaded no contest Monday afternoon in Sumrall Municipal Court.

Bond was set at $500,000 today for a Lamar County man charged with child exploitation and possession of child pornography.