Lexington News

Charles Lyndell Moore, wanted in connection with the shooting of Darnell Blare on May 22 in Balance Due near Lexington, was captured at his sister's house in the West-Emory area on May 29 by Holmes County deputies, according to Holmes County Sheriff Willie March.

A prison inmate accused of conspiring to steal guns from a Mississippi police department wants to block federal prosecutors from using recorded conversations and other information to convince a jury the weapons were sold in Chicago.

Civil rights pioneer James Meredith, on a stop on his 200-Mile Walk For The Poor, will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday with Holmes County residents at the Community Students Learning Center.

A Holmes County man wanted in a Lexington shooting turned himself into authorities early this morning, officials said.

A SHOOTER, WHO AUTHORITIES BELIEVE IS STILL ON THE RUN, IS BEING SOUGHT AND HOLMES COUNTY AUTHORITIES NEEDS HELP IN LOCATING THIS SUSPECT.

A radio station owner is killed in a one car crash in Lexington. The Holmes County Coroner says Brad Maurice Cothran, age unknown, of Lexington, died when his vehicle left the roadway and hit a tree.

A shooting is under investigation in Holmes County. Sheriff Willie March tells WLBT it occurred last Friday night in a mobile home just outside of Lexington.

Before he climbed up to the window of a mobile home and allegedly shot and wounded Darrell Blair, Charles Moore threatened to harm him and the mother of his five children.

The 50th anniversary of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Kosciusko will be celebrated on Sunday, May 3, in services beginning at 10:30 a.m. Guest speaker will Rev.

Kenyon Ross has been hired as the new boys and girls basketball coach at Durant High School.

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.

The Mississippi attorney general's office said three members of a Lexington family have been sentenced for having illegal gambling machines in their restaurant.

Holmes County Hospital and Clinics Pathology Laboratory has been accredited by the Commission on Laboratory Accreditation of the College of American Pathologists , based on the results of a recent on-site inspection.

As the April 15 tax deadline approaches, you may be thinking of not filing a return if you owe additional money to the Internal Revenue Service.

How times have changed in Mississippi. State lawmakers before they ended the first part of the 2009 session honored the late Hazel Brannon Smith for her courage in pushing for equal treatment for blacks in the 1950s and 1960s.

As editor and publisher of a small-town newspaper in the Mississippi Delta, Hazel Brannon Smith was boycotted by fellow whites and condemned in the state Senate because she advocated equal treatment of blacks during the volatile 1950s and '60s. Now, 15 years after Smith died penniless, Mississippi lawmakers have approved a resolution to belatedly ...

Forty-six years ago, a racist Holmes County state senator denounced Lexington Advertiser Editor Hazel Brannon Smith as a 'traitor,' brandishing photos taken by agents of the old state Sovereignty Commission who stalked the courageous editor because she spoke out for civil rights.

Editor's Note: Since the first publication of Strand Theater memories in the paper, The Star-Herald has still been receiving memories of the theater.

The Attorney General's Office arrested five people in two separate cases for allegedly hosting illegal gaming operations.