Byram News

More than $4.4 million is being released for four transportation improvement projects in Cleveland, Greenwood, Jackson and Natchez - all projects funded through the Delta Region Transportation Development Program, U.S. Sen.

The offerings at New China Buffet are fresh and plentiful. New China Buffet is located in the Jacksonian Plaza in North Jackson in a nice new strip mall area off the I-55 Frontage Road.

Some schools, however, are balking at giving swine flu shots. Ellen Aregood, assistant to the superintendent at Madison County School District, says the district will distribute information, but will not offer schools as immunization sites.

A Madison development firm is wooing Byram to locate City Hall in its $50 million, 70-acre development with the offer of land and federal money to build city offices.

A bus equipped to deliver $60 million in free health screenings nationwide is coming to the Jackson area.

Chat rooms, text messages, social networking sites and Skype are providing the technology predators use to lure children when their parents aren't watching, police said.

M&F Bank recently announced that Gage Walker has been named senior vice president and senior commercial lender of Rankin County.

Hundreds of Byram residents are boiling over newly, nearly quadrupled water rates.

It's problems like the gaping pothole at Davis and Siwell Roads, and patchwork along major roadways, that have folks living in Byram calling 3 On Your Side, asking when the city will start making improvements.

Wednesday, the Jackson Enforcement Team arrested eight suspects in a drug-related kidnapping for ransom, according to Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics Director Marshall Fisher.

Christopher Spell pleaded guilty to two counts of manslaughter. The judge sentenced 28-year-old to 20 years for each count, but they will be served at the same time.

The man accused of killing a Clinton firefighter and his wife pleaded guilty to two counts of manslaughter in court Monday.

A Jackson man was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for causing the 2007 crash that killed a Clinton firefighter and his wife in a two-car accident at I-55 and Siwell Road in Byram.

BYRAM, Miss. -- Monday, the man accused of killing a Clinton Firefighter and his wife is expected in court.

Hinds County has sent a letter to 13 developers demanding that they submit by the end of November their plans to fix substandard roads in subdivisions.

TheJacksonChannel.Com updated Oct. 29, 2009 JACKSON, Miss. - WAPT.com The University of Mississippi Medical Center was administering swine flu vaccines to full-time faculty, staff, students and volunteers, UMC officials said.

BYRAM, Miss. -- Fifteen subdivisions in Hinds County have 30 days to get streets in their neighborhoods up to par before the county files a lawsuit against them.

Hinds County Schools has been forced to change its bus routes because of a school bus driver strike.

Bus drivers for Hinds County schools followed through on their promise to strike today.

State troopers arrested Alonso Dean, 40, of Raymond, Miss., and Bryant Simmons, 39, of Byram, Miss.