Latimer News

The state Department of Transportation is looking at an alternate route for Mississippi 15 that would take it across west Jackson County, from just above Interstate 110 to a little north of Vancleave.

A look at law enforcement news from the last week: n On Friday all three suspects were convicted in a fatal double kidnapping in October that started in New Orleans and ended in Latimer.

A Latimer shipyard worker became the first person in Jackson County to buy a Mississippi Cottage through a program offered by the state emergency agency.

Jackson County bought a house and two small strips of property just east of the busy Sangani Boulevard shopping area in order to fix a major traffic artery that feeds that area.

A judge decided Monday to let a grand jury hear the capital murder case against one of three people accused of kidnapping two men in New Orleans and killing one of them on a rural Jackson County road.

Richard Howorth couldn't fight city hall, so he joined it. After losing a battle against the Board of Aldermen eight years ago, the bookstore owner ran for mayor of Oxford.

LATIMER The Jackson County Utility Authority is gearing up for $48 million in water and sewer projects in west Jackson County, representatives said at a Latimer Community Center meeting Thursday afternoon.

Today GriefShare, a recovery support group for those who have experienced the death of a loved one, will meet at 6 p.m. in the north building of First United Methodist Church, Pascagoula.

The county supervisor who led opposition against a rezoning that would have allowed Habitat for Humanity of the Mississippi Gulf Coast to build a subdivision off Brodnax Road in Latimer said he would reconsider ...