Pickens News

The Showtime Crusade with Evangelist David Dixon will be held Sunday, May 31-Tuesday, June 2, at the Madison Community Church, located at 1237 Livingston Road in Madison.

When can we expect a new album from Whitney Houston? Meta Wise, Pickens, Miss. A comeback CD, her first of all new material since 2002's "Just Whitney," is expected sometime this year.

A Severe Thunderstorm Watch is in effect for much of central and northern Mississippi and extreme northwestern Alabama until 1 pm.

As a small-town Mississippi Delta newspaper publisher during the 1950s and '60s, Hazel Brannon Smith was boycotted by fellow whites in the local business establishment because she advocated equal treatment of black people.

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.

At least 3,000 people were expected to attend today's Mississippi Employment Expo at the Mississippi Trade Mart.

BY ERROL CASTENS Daily Journal Oxford Bureau OXFORD - Panola Construction Co.'s bid to renovate the Lafayette County Courthouse was to begin right after the Double Decker Festival in late April of 2007.

Ridgeland police have arrested a Pickens man in the Friday robbery of a liquor store and say he could be involved in as many as three other holdups.

A Pickens man is behind bars in Ridgeland, accused of armed robbery. Police say 26 year-old Anthony Jones robbed Olde Town Fine Wines and Spirits on Highway 51 Friday night.

Even with the temperatures hovering just above freezing, hundreds of people in Holmes County celebrated the season outside with a Christmas parade.