Smith County News

We live in a world full of love and hate. More and more these days, it seems people are on one side or the other.

The streets of Downtown Raleigh are a lot quieter today than they were a week ago when Ku Klux Klan members from across the South gathered for a rally on the courthouse steps of this small Mississippi community.

Thirty-four year-old Gayla Gavin of Raleigh couldn't believe her eyes and ears Saturday when she saw a group of white supremacists gathered on the courthouse steps saying they were there to "get rid of the unwanted." "I thought we were past that," said the black woman who has lived in Raleigh all her life.

The Ku Klux Klan is still alive in parts of Mississippi. The Smith County Sheriff's Department confirms that the white supremacist group made arrangements to march at the courthouse in Raleigh at noon Saturday.

Sabrina McKenney and Wayne Johnson traveled from Destin, Fla., to participate in the 'Second Annual Autism Awareness Horse & Wagon Trail Ride.' The event was sponsored by Exit Realty Extreme Team of Laurel.

SMITH COUNTY, Miss. a ' The realignment of State Route 35 at State Route 28 is under way in Smith County, according to the Mississippi Department of Transportation.

Jones County deputies arrested a Smith County man for receiving stolen property and DUI.

The Mississippi Economic Policy Center released a new report Tuesday that measures how much income a family in the state would need to handle their basic necessities.

The Laurel Police Department's Investigative Division is looking for a Smith County man in connection with some criminal activity.

Just across from a cemetery on Highway 18 in the small Rankin County town of Johns, you'll find a pair of eye glasses and a piece of a bike pedal.

The driver accused of a fatal hit-and-run near Puckett on Thursday is awaiting transfer from the Smith County jail to the jail in Rankin County.

CHATSWORTH, Ga. - Services are 2 p.m. Sunday at Memory Chapel Funeral Home in Taylorsville for John Wesley Green, 76, of Chatsworth and formerly of Taylorsville, who died July 16, 2009, in Chatsworth.

A gas pipeline exploded in rural Smith County in south Mississippi Wednesday and at least one person was reportedly killed and three critically injured.

Federal investigators are on the scene of Wednesday's deadly pipeline explosion in Smith County.

It will take the Occupational Safety and Health Administration several months to be sure what caused the pipeline accident in Smith County Wednesday afternoon near Sylvarena.

Federal safety inspectors gathered information Thursday at the site of a failed pressure test on a section of a new gas pipeline.

By Roslyn Anderson roslyn@wlbt.net A natural gas pipeline explosion in Smith county kills one person and leaves three others injured.

One person is dead and three are critically injured following a pipeline explosion this afternoon in Smith County.

A gas pipeline exploded in south Mississippi' Smith County Wednesday, and a Jackson television station is reporting at least one person was killed and three people were critically injured.

A Smith County fire that killed two children has been ruled accidental, but the cause of that fire is still undetermined.