Hazlehurst News

Cecilia Anne Fennell of Hazlehurst, MS, and David Morgan Lee of Covington, LA, announce their engagement.

Here are the available damage reports from Sunday's Thunderstorms. At 2:16 pm, numerous trees were down on Great Southern Road and Dixie Garden Road 6 miles east-southeast of Hazlehurst in Copiah county.

HAZLEHURST - The city's school district is $1.6 million in debt, but finances are only part of the problem in the 1,700-student district, about 150 residents were told in a public meeting Thursday.

A Jackson Public Schools principal known as a troubleshooter was approved for a new post.

The Mississippi Board of Education approved making Lanier High School Principal Stanley Blackmon the conservator of the Hazlehurst Municipal School District at the board's Friday morning meeting.

SFA theater students are perfecting their Southern drawls as they prepare two of the plays included in the School of Theatre's summer repertory season.

New Department of Human Services chief Don Thompson will have his hands full when he takes office next month, and should hit the ground running.

A state agency with a problematic history of providing care for foster children and troubled teens soon is getting new leadership.

Laura Jackson knew her family physician growing up in Hazlehurst. She went to school with his kids.

Most Scottish and Scots-Irish researchers are familiar with the prolific work of David Dobson, whose untiring efforts documenting the emigration of Scottish settlers around the world has resulted in a ...

Winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, Crimes of the Heart established playwright Beth Henley as a major voice in American theater.

At least four people were injured Tuesday when an Amtrak passenger train collided with a garbage truck on a rural stretch of track in Copiah County, south of Jackson.

Edwards 05/18/08 Ginn Vehicle Recovered The vehicle belonging to missing Mississippi banker Mark Ginn has been recovered in rural Hinds County, along with a body.

Hazlehurst 05/20/08 State of Emergency Declared for School District A state of emergency has been declared in the Hazlehurst City School District.

Submitted photo ''Crimes of the Heart"opens on May 16. From left to right: Chick Doyle , Babe Botrele , and Lenny McGrath .

“I like numbers, give me some numbers, don't just say we're above water”

At least one board member in the Hazlehurst Municipal School District had an inkling the district was spending too much money but says the board wasn't told of the growing financial trouble until the state ... via The Clarion-Ledger

“I was never charged for anything nor was I ever indicted or anything”

The Mississippi Board of Education is expected to clear the way today for the takeover of the embattled Hazlehurst Municipal School District, a measure used only in emergencies. via The Clarion-Ledger

“I trusted the man when we hired him”

Two Hazlehurst Municipal School District board members and four state Department of Education representatives abruptly walked out of a Tuesday meeting when a majority of the five-member board rejected a move to ... via The Clarion-Ledger

Governor Barbour has vetoed designed to help curb copper thefts. The Governor says the bill puts unfair burden on legitimate businesses. via WLBT-TV Jackson

COPIAH Co., Miss. -- A woman died Friday when a car she was riding in was hit by a train south of Hazlehurst. via WAPT