McComb News

Friday, November 06, 2009 Jennifer Hall , librarian at Batesville Public Library, made a surprise presentation to Irene Rhodes at Mondaya s Friends of the Library meeting.

A Mississippi Blues Trail marker will be dedicated Friday on Summit Street in McComb.

McComb Mayor Zach Patterson has filed a lawsuit against the city's selectmen, accusing them of violating state law when they didn't give notice of a meeting held to sign payroll checks.

An official with Magnolia Electric Power Association says the McComb-based utility has recouped about $3 million of the $5.3 million it invested in 2008 with the now-defunct Stanford Financial Group and its bank in Antigua.

An official with Magnolia Electric Power Association says the McComb-based utility has recouped about $3 million of the $5.3 million it invested in 2008 with the now-defunct Stanford Financial Group and its bank in Antigua.

Mechelle Duckworth has been named chief executive officer of HubHealth of South Mississippi, an 180-member independent physician association, which serves the Pine Belt.

McCOMB, Miss. - Pike County Constable Oliver James has resigned after allegedly being caught on video receiving an improper payment of $35. County supervisors accepted the resignation this past week.

McCOMB, Miss. - In March 1929, Norman Gillis Sr. opened a pharmacy in McComb. Eighty years later, Gillis Drug Store is in the same location, continuing to serve generations of customers and their families who need prescriptions filled and other medical needs met.

Isla Rosalie Hoyle met her namesake Saturday. Isla Rosalie, 4 months, was given her middle name after the antebellum house on which the Great Mississippi River Balloon Race festival is located.

McComb Central Communications dispatched units to the Nehi Circle railroad crossing regarding a train hitting a vehicle Monday afternoon at 3:46 pm.

McCOMB, Miss. - Three people are dead, including a 2-year-old, after a passenger train collided with a car at a railroad crossing Monday in an industrial section of the city.

Three people are dead after a train crash in McComb, the youngest victim was just two years old.

Eds: APNewsNow. McCOMB, Miss. Authorities say three people have been killed and another person critically injured after the car they were riding in collided with a passenger train in southern Mississippi.

From the Mississippi Gulf Coast to North Mississippi, retirement directors from throughout the state of Mississippi spent two days this week in the City of Laurel.

MapSpace! 10/15/2009 12:28 PM The leading edge of chilly air will trigger locally strong thunderstorms in the South into Friday, while the coldest air could yield snow in the southern Appalachians this By Kristina Pydynowski AccuWeather.com The leading edge of chilly air will trigger locally strong thunderstorms in the South into Friday, while the ...

Pine Belt residents can get the feeling of stepping into the pages of a magazine during an open house Sunday afternoon for Hattiesburg's 2009 Southern Living Showcase House.

Paul Sims/SDN Mississippi Supreme Court Chief Justice William L. a oeBilla Waller Jr.

Civil rights stories such as that of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old lynched in 1955 at Bryanta TMs Grocery & Meat Market in Money, Miss., will be required public school subjects in Mississippi.

McCOMB, Miss. - McComb School District officials say they won't accept money from the federal stimulus package's Qualified School Construction Bond program.

A Mississippi death row inmate has been re-sentenced to life behind bars for murdering his stepson, the stepson's wife and their 4-year-old daughter in 1993.