Brookhaven News

The historic Haven theater looks great on the outside, but Brookhaven Little Theatre officials said interior renovations have been put on hold after state grants used during the restoration process have gone unfunded.

A former executive director of the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science, in Columbus, has been named as interim head of The Mississippi School of the Arts in Brookhaven.

MOSS POINT The 169 men and women of the U.S. Army Reserve's 296th Transportation Company spent their last night in Mississippi for a year laughing, dancing and spending time with friends and family.

BROOKHAVEN - Carol Alderman has been named interim director of the Mississippi School of the Arts in Brookhaven.

A 23-year-old Monticello woman has admitted to using excessive force while placing a nursing home patient on a mechanical lift.

Spirits ran high in Moss Point Monday night in support of the Road Warriors. The Brookhaven-based 296th Transportation Company of the Army Reserves piled off busses into a sea of family, friends and community members singing their praises for the job they're about to do.

Authorities say an 18-year-old Lincoln County inmate who escaped on June 3 has been captured at his mother's house.

When the Army Reserve's 296th Transportation Company heads off next week to train for duty in Iraq, it will be leaving with a south Mississippi farewell.

ADAM NORTHAM Brookhaven Daily Leader BROOKHAVEN, Miss. - The ownership of Brookhaven's historic Jewish temple may soon change hands to the Lincoln County Historical and Genealogical Society.

Jim Craig, a program director at the Mississippi State Department of Health, started using smokeless tobacco at age 18.

Mississippi School of the Arts executive director Vicki Lambert, who retires June 30, said the school has withstood many trials and won many victories, and she will continue to be a part of the MSA family in any way she can.

The jobs of Delphi's Mississippi workers appear to be safe for now. The Troy, Mich.-based company announced Monday it would be purchased by Platinum Equity, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm, in a $3.6 billion deal to emerge from bankruptcy.

Copiah County authorities are trying to determine the cause of a plane crash off Lilly Road between Hazlehurst and Gallman that left two men dead.

Some 200 teens have opted out of a sun filled weekend on the beach for a chance to help others.

Spring landscapes with azaleas, rhododendrons, dogwoods and redbuds look simply incredible.

There is a controversy in Brookhaven about moving the district headquarters of the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks from Brookhaven to near McComb.

BROOKHAVEN, Miss. - Mississippi School of the Arts Executive Director Vicki Bodenhamer Lambert will retire June 30 after six years on the job.

Three people have been charged with capital murder and armed robbery in Brookhaven.

Faced with the prospect of losing his cattle business, state Rep. Joe Warren introduced legislation this year that he hoped would help him keep 16th Section land he leases from his local school district.

Filmmaker Keith Beauchamp will be in three Mississippi cities this week to screen episodes of his television documentaries about three unsolved killings from the civil rights era.