Warren County News

Warren County is paying a big medical bill for an inmate awaiting a murder trial.

A Warren County, Miss., jury has awarded $7.6 million to a former sandblaster who developed severe silicosis.

A Warren County jury has awarded $7.6 million to a former sandblaster who developed severe silicosis.

VICKSBURG , MS Between this weekend and Wednesday three schools in Warren county have been burglarized and vandalized.

A Warren County Jail inmate is being sought after escaping from the jail. Sheriff Martin Pace said Monday his office is looking for trusty Eugene Lewis Jr., who had been arrested in March for credit card fraud and residential burglary.

A 51-year-old Vicksburg man faces a capital murder charge in the 2008 shooting death of a retired assistant police chief.

An urgent need for radio and other communications that work everywhere in the county, without 'dead zones,' is the top need for Warren County law enforcement, a county grand jury reports.

A Warren County grand jury says deputies and police officers have an urgent need for radio and other communications that works everywhere in the county, without "dead zones". The report filed Thursday is the first in years with something other than a new jail at the top of the list.

Warren County authorities are holding an Alabama man wanted on charges including attempted murder.

Mississippi can't afford to keep all 152 school districts, eight public universities and an extensive system of community and junior colleges, a leading Democrat on the state budget committee said Wednesday.

The four-lane Interstate 20 bridge over the Mississippi River has been reopened to vehicular traffic Thursday after it was closed as a precaution after barges broke loose on the river.

The state Court of Appeals has upheld the murder conviction of David Welch, who was sentence to life in prison in 2007 in Warren County for the shooting death of Cetric Ladell Griffin.

The Interstate 20 Bridge over the Mississippi River in Vicksburg reopened to traffic Thursday following a barge collision, transportation officials said.

Vicksburg funeral director James E. Jefferson Jr. has been named to an open justice court judge post in Warren County.

After years of abuse, Brenda Thomas fled from the man who routinely threw her against the wall, flung her onto the floor, kicked her, then, finally, put her in the hospital.

The Mississippi Supreme Court won't hear an appeal from William Presley Brown II.

Three Warren County Justice Court judge candidates will address community concerns about domestic abuse during a domestic violence forum, starting at 5:30 p.m. Thursday in Vicksburg.

Unless you're an attorney or have an interest in a particular legal case pending before the Mississippi Supreme Court, you're not likely to read opinions the court hands down weekly.

The Mississippi Supreme has ordered a public reprimand and fine for former Warren County Justice Court Judge Richard Bradford III.

District Attorney Ricky Smith says a Warren County grand jury will be asked whether a woman who stepped forward after the Aug.