Newton County News

Just days after Mississippi was named the nation's most obese state, some local students are being encouraged to move in a more healthy direction.

After hurricanes Katrina and Rita ravaged Louisiana and coastal Mississippi, Galloway worked with the Hancock County Emergency Management Team in Bay St.

The Mississippi Supreme Court has lifted a stay on the trial of two men in the slaying of a Forest teenager.

A groundbreaking ceremony was held Friday for a new Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Newton County.

This morning state and local officials will dig into the Mississippi clay of Newton County with gold-colored shovels marking the official groundbreaking for the "Arlington of the South," the Mississippi Veteran's Memorial Cemetery.

Soldiers who are serving in Iraq are being remembered by the folks back home. Members of the 155th Brigade Combat team left for Iraq earlier this year.

Bridge building was one of the main themes of Cheri Barry's campaign for mayor of Meridian.

Slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers has been honored with a Navy supply ship named for him.

The majority of Mississippi road projects funded by the federal stimulus bill will be completed by the spring, a state transportation official says.

In granting a death row inmate a second mental disability hearing, the Mississippi Supreme Court made clear that it thought the inmate's former attorney failed to provide proper representation.

Army Sgt. Matthew Ingram, killed in an apparent ambush in Afghanistan, is being remembered as a leader who loved his country, a father who loved his family and a small-town Mississippian who wanted to see the world.

Arrangements have been finalized for the funeral of Army Sgt. Matthew Ingram, 25, who died last week during combat in Kunar Province, Afghanistan.

Temp: 87.0 F Heat Index: 87 F Meridian, Key Field, MS Font Size: A Newton County native was killed Thursday during a mortar attack in Afghanistan, according to his family.

The conference room at the Mississippi State University Extension Experimental Station on Hwy.

Federal funds are now officially in the hands of Mississippi officials to establish the first state veterans cemetery.

The Mississippi Tobacco Free Coalition of Lauderdale and Newton Counties has received a $76,000 community grant from the Mississippi State Department of Health's Office of Tobacco Control.

The Mississippi Tobacco Free Coalition of Lauderdale and Newton Counties has received a $76,000 community grant from the Mississippi State Department of Health's Office of Tobacco Control.

Some local residents learned the beauty of Choctaw dances during a gathering at West Ellisville Baptist Church Thursday.

The Mississippi Highway Patrol responded to a fatal accident in Newton County at mile marker 116 on interstate twenty.

After a change of attorneys and a refiling of briefs, Mississippi death row inmate Howard Dean Goodin will argue before state's highest court that he is mentally disabled and should not be put to death.