Raleigh News

Laurel - Services are 2 p.m. Tuesday at Double Church in Smith County for Wydell T. Craft, 95, of Laurel, formerly of Raleigh, who died Dec.

We live in a world full of love and hate. More and more these days, it seems people are on one side or the other.

The streets of Downtown Raleigh are a lot quieter today than they were a week ago when Ku Klux Klan members from across the South gathered for a rally on the courthouse steps of this small Mississippi community.

Thirty-four year-old Gayla Gavin of Raleigh couldn't believe her eyes and ears Saturday when she saw a group of white supremacists gathered on the courthouse steps saying they were there to "get rid of the unwanted." "I thought we were past that," said the black woman who has lived in Raleigh all her life.

The Ku Klux Klan is still alive in parts of Mississippi. The Smith County Sheriff's Department confirms that the white supremacist group made arrangements to march at the courthouse in Raleigh at noon Saturday.

The driver accused of a fatal hit-and-run near Puckett on Thursday is awaiting transfer from the Smith County jail to the jail in Rankin County.

Oak Grove made it official Monday night, as Wayne County's Chris McCardle was named as the Warriors' new baseball coach.

A trust fund has been set up for the family of two children who died in a house fire near Raleigh, Miss.

A Smith County fire that killed two children has been ruled accidental, but the cause of that fire is still undetermined.

Two children died and their grandmother was hurt in a house fire this morning in Smith County.

Ronald and Leisha Williams of Laurel announce the engagement of their daughter, Courtney Danyel Williams, to Kevin Holton Austin II, son of Kevin Holton Austin I of Raleigh, and Ladonnia and Joe Dyess of Louin.