McComb News

As part of the civil rights-era cold case Initiative, the FBI is currently reassessing more than 100 unsolved or inadequately solved racially motivated homicides from the civil rights era, officials said.

Dr. Wallace: I'm 17 and have excess fat on my upper legs, commonly known among females as "saddle bags." I've tried every kind of exercise possible to eliminate this fat, but nothing has worked.

Woodie Assaf was more than a longtime weatherman. "He was a person who used the tool of television to help people," said Dan Modisett, general manager of WLBT-Channel 3 in Jackson.

Members of Goss Baptist Church hope for a record turnout Thursday for the annual "Blessing of the Hunt," held each year before the opening of gun season for deer in Mississippi.

Members of Goss Baptist Church hope for a record turnout Thursday for the annual "Blessing of the Hunt," held each year before the opening of gun season for deer in Mississippi.

JROTC cadets at four Jackson high schools led Veterans' Day programs today. The program at Forest Hill High School included an award and recognition ceremony, patriotic songs by the high school choir and JROTC, a patriotic poem and "Taps," played by the high school band.

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.