Simpson County News

A Simpson County family is homeless after fire destroyed their home tonight. Flames leveled the mobile home at 153 Van Zandt Road in D'Lo. The Mendenhall Fire Department responded to the scene of that fire.

The Choctaw Plaindealer The Choctaw County Board of Supervisors opened bids for the Striping and Signing of various roads and to purchase a used compactor taking both under advisement.

Here are some inquiries from the Family Trees mailbox. Steven Kinney is seeking information about Warren Kinney.

Voter-advocacy groups statewide logged a few hundred complaints Tuesday, including concerns of technical glitches with touch-screen machines in Moss Point and heavy police presence around a voting precinct in ...

Voter-advocate groups and a Secretary of State spokesperson confirm they've received complaints of problems with voting machines around the state.

Mendenhall's police chief is still on the payroll three weeks after he pleaded guilty to aggravated assault in plea deal involving allegations of having sex with a minor.

Voters are reporting problems with machines in Braxton, said Pam Weaver, a spokeswoman for the Secretary of State.

MAGEE - Simpson County lawmen are awaiting the results of an autopsy on a beating victim to determine if charges against the assailant will be upgraded.

The problem with sitting in the middle, as Magee does between the state's first and third largest cities, is one sometimes gets overlooked.

The city has found a way to benefit from sitting between Jackson and Hattiesburg.

Pioneer Health Services is living up to its name with construction of its sprawling $5 million headquarters here.

It took almost eight years for a suspect to be arrested in the death of 27-year-old Medicaid billing clerk Alisha Jackson, who was found stabbed 52 times in her north Jackson apartment in September 1998.

A Mendenhall man was sentenced to eight years in prison today for shooting a D'Lo resident.

Mendenhall will ask for the state attorney general's guidance on how to remove Police Chief Jimbo Sullivan from office following his guilty plea Monday to aggravated assault involving allegations of sex with a ...

Mendenhall police chief James Sullivan has pleaded guilty to aggravated assault charges related to accusations that he sex with a 14-year-old girl.

Two caregivers have been indicted by a Simpson County grand jury for alleged crimes against vulnerable adults.

Divided among six offices today, Pioneer Health Services expects to have its headquarters in one location within the next nine to 10 months when it opens a $5 million, 30,000-square-foot office in Magee's new ...

A Simpson County church is trying to increase voter turnout by holding a voter registration drive Saturday.

A key prosecution witness testified Thursday that Joe Lewis Collins conceived the idea of killing federal witness Clovis Reed to keep her mouth shut.

Residents from two Louisiana nursing homes are in makeshift facilities in the Jackson area after hitting a snafu in their evacuation plans.