Brookhaven News

The lawsuit concerning church property brings back memories of the early '70s in Brookhaven, Miss.

ADAM NORTHAM Fair Oak Springs School site in Lincoln County getting historical marker BROOKHAVEN, Miss.

About 500 ninth-graders from Brookhaven city and Lincoln County schools and Brookhaven Academy will attend a late January program designed to stress the relationship between academic and financial success.

Georgia-Rae Rainer, a sophomore biology major from Brookhaven, Miss., showcases her homemade taco costume.

The Department of Labor announced Friday that workers at Delphi plants in Brookhaven and Clinton are eligible for Trade Adjustment Assistance which includes up to 130 weeks of cash payments and training for workers.

A state forestry expert said on Monday that the redbay and sassafras trees, native to Mississippi for thousands of years, might face extinction if an antidote to laurel wil, a devastating disease spread to these two species by a small beetle is not found soon.

With help from a Mississippi Arts Commission grant, William Carey University took area high school students into the world of a renowned Mississippi author Tuesday.

BROOKHAVEN, Miss. - Many companies have wilted during the dry spell of the national recession, but one Brookhaven business continues to blossom.

The people are gone and the landscape is changing, but the spirit of historic Brookhaven is still visible in one downtown storefront.

Isla Rosalie Hoyle met her namesake Saturday. Isla Rosalie, 4 months, was given her middle name after the antebellum house on which the Great Mississippi River Balloon Race festival is located.

BROOKHAVEN, Miss. - Cable television provider Cable One plans to close its Brookhaven office this month and merge it into a larger headquarters in McComb.

A Silver Creek woman called her granddaughter a miracle baby on Wednesday because doctors were forced to deliver the baby early after her mother became ill with swine flu.

State workers may not face the prospect of losing their jobs as a result of lagging revenues, but agency leaders say making deeper budget cuts would still be tough to do.

One of the busiest blues musicians in Jackson is Virgil Brawley, who performs both with his band the Juvenators and solo as 'Big Juv.' At 5 p.m. Friday he'll be celebrating the release of his new solo CD, Bottle Tree, at the Alluvian in Greenwood.

A 68-year-old woman died following a collision with an Amtrak train in downtown Brookhaven.

A Lincoln county woman is fighting for her life after driving her vehicle into the path of an oncoming train in downtown Brookhaven.

A Mississippi man was chosen to speak at the U.S. Air Force's 62nd birthday celebration at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan.

About 70 jobs will be created at local Delphi Packard Electric plants when the auto parts maker shifts cable and plastic molding production from a Clinton, Miss., factory that's being closed, a company spokeswoman said Thursday.

Mark Anderson, McComb's former acting police chief, is scheduled for a Sept. 25 city court hearing on charges of impersonating a police officer and joy riding after he allegedly stole a patrol car on Wednesday.

The Delphi plant in Clinton will close by Dec 31, taking 280 jobs from the city along with a longtime pillar of the business community.