Walthall County News

The 11th season of the Roots Reunion returns Saturday as a way to keep music traditions alive and give local performers a venue to perform.

It has been over a year since Danny Blansett and Brett Smith were murdered in the Kokomo community of Marion County.

TYLERTOWN - A south Mississippi inmate has been captured in Louisiana after escaping when his jail's dirty laundry was collected during the weekend.

WALTHALL COUNTY, Miss. a ' An overlay project on U.S. Highway 98 in Walthall County is about 81 percent complete, according to the Mississippi Department of Transportation.

Eighteen suspects arrested in a state-wide methamphetamine distribution ring appeared in federal court for a second arraignment hearing Thursday for additional charges.

Eighteen suspects arrested in a state-wide methamphetamine distribution ring appeared in federal court for a second arraignment hearing Thursday for additional charges.

The U.S. Justice Department has ordered a small Mississippi school district to end its practice of allowing hundreds of white students to transfer from majority black schools, calling it a violation of a desegregation order and federal law.

The U.S. Justice Department said a Mississippi school district has been using school transfers to get around a federal desegregation order.

Walthall County school officials met to determine if white students in the predominately black Tylertown school district will continue to be allowed to transfer.

About 300 Walthall County students are heading into an uncertain school year. They don't even know what school they'll be attending.

The economy has battered many businesses, but local fireworks vendors said hard times aren't why fewer customers are buying the colorful explosives that are a traditional part of July Fourth.

The alleged ringleader of a methamphetamine distribution ring threatened to kill a state narcotics agent and judges involved in a statewide investigation that produced more than 50 arrests, federal prosecutors said Monday.

More arrests are expected in what is described as the dismantling of the largest known methamphetamine ring operating in the state, officials say.

At least 18 people are in jail and 50 pounds of Mexican-grade methamphetamine with a street value of more than $1.5 million have been seized in the dismantling of the largest known meth distribution operation in the state, federal and state officials announced today.