Edwards News

A benefit gospel concert featuring local gospel music performers is set for 6 p.m. July 25 in Cain-Cochran Hall at Hinds Community College in Raymond.

For blues legend B.B. King, heading home to Mississippi each year isn't just a tour date, it's a chance to spread the gospel of blues to a younger generation.

The Highway 61 Blues Festival in Leland celebrates its 10th anniversary Saturday with a strong lineup of traditional blues, including 93-year-old Honeyboy Edwards and former Howlin' Wolf saxophonist Eddie Shaw.

Bolton Mayor Lawrence Butler is known by just about everyone in the town. The 69-year-old is opinionated and says he is determined to see the city of some 600 thrive.

If Sid Champion V had his druthers, he would be buried in the family graveyard with his great-great-grandparents, Sid and Matilda Champion.

If Sid Champion had his druthers, he would like to be buried in the family graveyard with his great-great-grandparents, Sid and Matilda Champion, for Sid - who is the fifth of the family to have that name - said he is "a part of this land, and it is a part of me." He was standing near the family burial plot on the plantation known as Champion Hill ...

Mississippi's Warren County has long been a multicultural hub with its Chinese-owned grocery stores, black funeral homes and restaurants that serve fried catfish and turnip greens to diverse crowds of diners.

Friday evening around 6:30 Paul Thorn and his band were relaxing and eating sandwiches in the mayor's conference room at City Hall.

JATRAN is in a budget crisis, having operated at a loss for years. The city of Jackson has subsidized JATRAN as a service to the citizens of our capital city.

MOSS POINT Through his work in the military, as an educator and a youth minister, Steve Edwards said he has dedicated his life to creating future leaders.

POSTED: 10:59 pm CDT March 23, 2009 UPDATED: 9:34 am CDT March 24, 2009 VICKSBURG, Miss.

City elections are more than six weeks away, but mayors in three Hinds County communities already have won their seats for the next four years.

The second of 2 markers will be unveiled Thursday designating U.S. Highway 61 as part of the Mississippi Blues Trail.

A new Mississippi Blues Trail marker has been placed to honor native Rubin 'Rube' Lacy.

Hinds County investigators tell News Channel 12 they've found a body in the city of Edwards.

An Edwards man is in the Hinds County jail tonight, on 10 charges of possessing child pornography.

An Edwards man was arrested Tuesday and charged with having hundreds of sexually explicit, nude images of children on his computer.

Mr. Edwards became involved in his profession because he wanted to help his friends and people in the community who were suffering from asthma.

Ballroom dancing classes will be 7:30-9 p.m. Thursdays through Feb. 26 at W.U. Sigler Community Center, 315 Conti St., Hattiesburg.

Some public school districts may have to raise taxes next year to make up for $85 million in funding cuts, state education officials said Thursday.