Picayune News

In 1950, Clarence "Junior" Penton was working with his father at the Crosby mill in Picayune, and one day he told his dad he wanted to go join the Navy.

Ed Darling, a veteran editor and publisher at newspapers in Mississippi, Alabama and Oklahoma, has announced his retirement as publisher of the Mississippi Business Journal.

Law enforcement officers say they've arrested a gang leader wanted in a 2008 Christmas Day slaying in Mississippi.

Court sets Jan. 13 as date for Penton to enter plea The date for Pearl River County school superintendent Dennis E. Penton to enter a plea in connection with a misdemeanor charge of failure to report a crime on school property has been set in Justice Court on Wednesday, Jan.

When Tim Garrett arrived a little over a year ago to be the band director for Picayune Memorial High School, he didn't fully realize the obstacles he was facing.

The Picayune CityCouncil meets at 5 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall, 815 N. Beech St. Included on the agenda are: Consider the agenda.

A panel discussion of President Obama's first year in office will be held Nov. 12 at Tougaloo College.

A test call is planned on Thursday using a new communication system to ensure residents are ready to receive messages during future emergencies.

The burglary of a warehouse in Picayune led to the arrest of three suspects by the Pearl River County Sheriff's Department.

A Biloxi man has been charged with murder after police say an argument ended in gunfire.

Saying that incumbent Congressman Gene Taylor is a "closet liberal" and voted twice for Speaker of the House Nancy Polosi, 4th Congressional Republican candidate for Congress Joe Tegerdine kicked off his campaign this week on 15 whistle stops around the district, one of them in Picayune on Monday afternoon.

The 10-year lease of the Bertie Rouse building to the Greater Picayune Arts Council has been approved by the school board of the Picayune Municipal Separate School District, pending GPAC's approval of a modification in the lease's terms.

Mary Loyd of Hinds County and Sheretta Johnson and Jacqueline Smith, both of Washington County, have pleaded guilty to food stamp fraud and must pay combined restitution of more than $33,000. That's according to an announcement Monday from the state Department of Human Services.

Scott Pfaff, a five-year physics teacher at Gulfport High School, has received a $25,000 check from the Milken Family Foundation National Educator Awards.

Absentee voting is currently available for the election of a new school board member for the Pearl River County School District.

Cuts in legislative funding to the South Mississippi Regional Center have forced the organization to consolidate services in Pearl River County by closing its recycling program in Picayune, one of the few recycling programs it has.

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and Mississippi native Natasha Trethewey will deliver the opening address Thursday for the 2009 Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium at Mississippi University for Women.

PICAYUNE, Miss. - A state forestry official says a disease spread by small beetles has begun attacking redbay and sassafras trees in Mississippi.

Poplarville High School's 2008 Homecoming Court is, from left, sitting: Senior Maids: Raven Pernell, Sierra Luke, Kolyn Dossett, Carmelita Barrymore and Bridget Thrash; standing: sophomore McKenna Scroggs, juniors Brittany Routzahn, Raven Nightengale and Asa Goins, sophomore Breanna Deem and freshman Hannah Nix.

Pearl River County supervisors continued on Monday exploring ways to best utilize $8.9 million in a federal FEMA grant to construct stand-alone storm shelters here, and mentioned several possibilities of combining the funds with local governmentally proposed construction projects to spread out back-end maintenance costs, which the county will have ...