Byram News

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.

Louisiana State Police arrested two men on drug and gun charges Saturday morning.

A 19-year-old Jackson man referred to as a serial criminal by the Hinds County district attorney faces up to 100 years in prison for a string of burglaries committed in summer 2008.

On a rainy night in south Jackson, Mayor Harvey Johnson Jr. spent two hours Tuesday fielding questions from city residents, some of whom have been Jacksonians for just a few months.

The Hinds County Sheriff's Department is investigating an apartment fire in Byram on Sunday afternoon.

The swine flu nasal spray vaccine is arriving in Mississippi this week and will be distributed to about 500 health care providers, clinics, pharmacies and hospitals.