Cruger News

Holmes County District Attorney James Powell said he will appeal the dismissal of charges against a Mississippi Highway Patrol trooper.

When a veteran state trooper was arrested on an extortion charge in 2008, he had not had a hearing to determine if there was enough evidence to charge him, as state law requires for sworn law enforcement officers.

A Holmes County judge has thrown out an extortion indictment againsti a Mississippi state trooper, saying the state never got an arrest warrent or held the required evidence hearing.

The Kosciusko Police Department reports the following arrests: -Fredrick Karnel Falls, 28, of Cruger, was charged with suspended driver's license on Highway 35 Bypass Wednesday.

The Holmes County Herald has been authorized to release the following announcement by Debra Ann Garland Mabry, candidate for Mayor of Goodman.

John D. Wynne has been named as a STAR Student for the 2008-2009 school year by the Mississippi Economic Council's M.B. Swayze Educational Foundation, sponsor of the STAR program.

University of Southern Mississippi student David Turner of West recently received the Outstanding Elementary Education Student Teacher Award from the College of Education and Psychology.