Leakesville News

SEMMES. ALA. - Services are 3 p.m. today at Mount Pisgah United Pentecostal Church in Leakesville for Barbara Faye Vess, 66, of Semmes, Ala., formerly of Greene County, who died July 2, 2009, at Providence Hospital in Mobile.

Jones County Junior College has a $1.1 million loan to build a training center in Green County, near Leakesville, to train people for shipyard careers.

Singing River Electric announced the approval of a $1.1 million zero-interest loan by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Business Service and Singing River Electric to fund an economic development project in Greene County, says Singing River Electric assistant manager Mike Smith.

LUCEDALE - A local man has teamed up with a North Carolina singer in his effort to win CMT's reality TV singing competition, 'Can You Duet.' Brandon Green, 23, son of Meleta and Jerry Green of Lucedale, will be one of 20 musicians hoping to be named country music's next great duo on the second season of the CMT music competition.

Mr. and Mrs. Shep Crawford of Woodville announce the engagement of their daughter, Gwendolyn Annette Crawford, to David Mitchell Merrill, son of Mr.

A Leakesville man is in jail after leading Jackson police on a chase on the interstate, and through the woods.

LEAKESVILLE, Miss. a ' Construction of a four-lane highway connecting the Mississippi Gulf Coast to Tennessee has entered its next phase.

ELLISVILLE - Most may not realize it, but Greene County has Mississippi's only nationally-accredited pipefitting training using the Mississippi Construction Education Foundations' national curriculum.

When Leakesville volunteer firefighter Scottie Holland was injured in January, it could have crippled him physically and financially.

For Mona-Lisa Palmer, the thought of graduating from college seemed unrealistic four years ago.

All Greene County Schools will reopen Tuesday with the exception of Leakesville Elementary School.

The severe weather that moved through South Mississippi Sunday night and Monday morning downed trees, destroyed homes, left thousands without power and even killed a woman in Jones County.

LUCEDALE - A Leakesville man has been arrested for allegedly kidnapping a 16-year-old girl in Alabama and using a deadly weapon to force her to have sex with him.

Dayton Scoggins is now an accomplished chainsaw artist, recognized as a world-class carver who has performed around the globe.

The U.S. Postal Service is in the process of deciding whether to move Hattiesburg's outgoing mail processing operations to Gulfport through a plan called 'Area Mail Processing.' This plan is not new.

The Mississippi House voted Tuesday to extend to one year the amount of time teenagers seeking their driver's license must learn how to operate a car with adult supervision.

LEAKESVILLE High school senior Tara Green said attending state Supreme Court Justice Randy "Bubba" Pierce's oath of office ceremony Friday was like watching history being made.

I like to cook a pot of chili using a pound of ground meat, 2 cans of kidney beans, a packet of chili seasoning, and a can of tomatoes.

An investiture ceremony for Mississippi Supreme Court Justice Randy G. 'Bubba' Pierce is scheduled for 1 p.m. Jan.

Singing River Electric is providing George Regional Health System with $1.1 million in zero-interest federal loans to buy equipment used to screen for breast cancer and heart disease, according to a news ...