Natchez News

No list of scenic routes is complete without mention of Creole Contry, Crane River Road is cited by National Georgrpahic Traveler as one of it's top destinations.

Five retired FBI agents -- four who worked in Concordia and one who worked in Natchez in the 1960s -- say they are unsure who killed Ferriday shoe shop owner Frank Morris or Vidalia motel employee Joseph "JoeEd" Edwards four decades ago.

By Jack Elliott Early morning . . . the world is just awaking and beginning a new work day, seemingly just another that will pass and be forgotten.

NEW ORLEANS - Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, blessed the Mississippi River as part of his trip to New Orleans.

Rapides Parish Sheriff's Office narcotics agent Mark Wood was named State Narcotic Agent of the Year during the Louisiana Narcotic's Association's conference in New Orleans from Aug.

A single-vehicle crash in East Baton Rouge Parish claimed the life of a Natchez man overnight on US 61 near Pride/Port Hudson Road.

A 24-year-old man was arrested on feticide charges after police say he ran a red light and caused an accident that killed the unborn child of his girlfriend.

A Mississippi soldier with family in Louisiana was killed Sunday by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.

A Mississippi soldier with family in Louisiana was killed Sunday by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.

A Mississippi soldier with family in Louisiana was killed Sunday by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.

Thanks to boxing coach James Joseph, bored youngsters on summer vacation in the crime-riddled, drug-plagued streets of New Orleans' Central City have something new to do on Saturdays.

NATCHITOCHES - People today will have an opportunity to meet with the five finalists for Natchitoches Parish schools superintendent.

The Natchitoches Parish School Board today whittled its list of applicants for school superintendent from 14 to five and the public will have the opportunity Thursday to visit with those still in the running to replace retiring Superintendent Elwanda Murphy.

Cleanup continued in central Louisiana today from the pummeling delivered on parts of Natchitoches and Winn parishes by a possible tornado Sunday morning.

It's not Natchez, as in the Natchez Trace; it's not Nacogdoches, the town in east Texas.